Middle-Earth: Shadow Of Mordor - 10 Reasons It's Your First Essential Next-Gen Title

9. The Graphics Are Phenomenal

Some like good gameplay, some like high resolutions, others are sticklers for frame-rates - but if there's one thing we all love doing when getting a new machine it's combining the lot to swoop the camera around and create some custom-made vistas. Well even despite the potential to set the entire game inside the walls of the always-brown and gray Mordor, due to the time period the game is set in there are many areas you'll visit where things can go from enclosed ruinous monuments and dank caves into sprawling green fields and sun-kissed mountainsides. It's truly gorgeous, and if any part of you was put off by the association of the titular Mordor with the ashen wasteland from the LOTR movies, the entirety of its placement in-game couldn't be farther from the truth. Not to mention that come the halfway point in the story the game world actively doubles in size, opening up a completely different area replete with another game's worth of content to explore.