middle earth shadow of mordor goty review gamespot

Motion Blur and FXAA are really well done, it adds to the immersion (motion blur) and FXAA is a shader based method to help deal with those annoying jaggies, it's not over the top and barely hit's the visual clarity of the game. The graphics menu is excellent, you can tweak this game up or down to suit a vast array of hardware no problem at all, however just ignore the Vram suggestions on the right side with textures unless you wish to try running the HD texture pack on Ultra, that will possibly eat most cards Vram.Īmbient Occlusion is one of those things you either love or hate, games that have used it like Battlefield 4 for me i just did not care as it barely added anything other than an unrealistic black outline to everything, however in Shadow of Mordor it is implemented greatly and really gives everything a fantastic look, NPC's pop out of the 3D world, i don't know AO just seems at home in Shadow of Mordor, it greatly enhances the visual experience. The sound is excellent and more than fit's what the game is capturing, there is also a lot of great detail added to characters, the voice acting is superb and some of the best i have ever seen. There is no pop in with the game world, everything seems to just live and you do feel like you are a part of this game and are fighting the creatures of Mordor, it feels believable and often times i just cannot stop playing. AKA High textures wanting 3GB Vram nonsense, but a small blunder compared to the achievement that this game is on a technical level. Shadow of Mordor does what the creed games just cannot (you can argue they are very different games, yeah visually you are correct), it gives me visuals and performance that are undeniably amazing, the game is so well optimized it leaves others wanting, however the graphical requirements are higher than actually needed for unknown reasons. I AM NOT a fan of Assassin's Creed games at all, in fact the only one i mildly enjoyed was IV Black Flag. I have played similar style games such as Assassin's Creed where you will do set missions, find a new area, go to a tower and get that placed on the map enabling you to fast travel to and from previously found towers. Game settings used for a visually impressive and smooth experience with my hardware.Ī note, the game found instability with my GPU which other stress tests and games never did! so i turned up the voltage a notch, it did raise temperatures a bit but it's perfectly fine for a 580 at 83c maximum, and this is in a warm room of 27c ambient. Game installed 2x Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB drives in RAID-0 Array.

Middle earth shadow of mordor goty review gamespot