Middle-Earth: Shadow Of War - 7 Leaked Details You're Not Supposed To Know

7. You'll Play As Talion & Cerebrimbor Again

It might not have been Troy Baker's best performance as Talion (you'd barely know it was him underneath all that bland gruffness), but combined with Alastair Duncan's Cerebrimbor (who possessed Talion from the beginning), it made for an enjoyable duality all the same.

The pair are returning in Shadow of War, assumedly meaning Baker and Duncan are also back, and you have to imagine Monolith have written a far more engaging and rewarding story this time round. Because let's face it, although the likes of Gollum cameos and interacting with, erm, Ratbag, were fun enough, the main meat n' potatoes of the SoM centred entirely in its gameplay - which was fine, but a more driven narrative would pay dividends.

For example, whywere you remixing orc ranks and turning them to your side? You could get one of your own 'agents' up to the top and spend forever overtaking entire platoons of orcs but... why? Let's see that answered with a far more overt and rewarding purpose.