![]() We wanted to treat them as what orcs represent. “We didn’t want to have a kind of generic fantasy approach to the orcs. “There was a line Tolkien wrote, which is, ‘We were all orcs in the Great War,'” de Plater said. In doing so, you can turn them against other orcs. But you can also use Wraith powers to dominate their minds and control them. Monolith’s character creators have “humanized” them, fleshing them out like Jackson did with the “Pale Orc” character in The Hobbit films. The unusual thing is that each orc in the game has its own personality, unique look, and traits. There are all these amazing characters in The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings that aren’t just good guys or bad guys.”Īs you play Talion, you discover that he is not so nice when he dispatches orcs. Characters that are more along the lines of Saruman, wanting to raise an army to challenge Sauron, or Boromir or Denethor or Theoden, or Thorin with his fall because of the temptation of the Arkenstone, or Thranduil. That was something within the lore that was important to us, to explore these characters with interesting shades of gray. “We get to explore our creativity and do something that hasn’t been seen, but we get to do it 100 percent within the canon and authentic to the lore,” de Plater said. And the war chiefs are like bosses: much harder to kill. If you get surrounded by the orcs, they’ll take you down. As a ranger, you’ll chop off heads and limbs in brutal fights with squads of enemies. The story will take you to the Sea of Núrnen, the breadbasket of Mordor, and inside iconic locations within Mordor. ![]() ![]() Talion seeks vengeance for the loss of his family, and he is aided in his personal vendetta by the mysterious Wraith, who has powers like a Ringwraith from the Lord of the Rings. Other actors include Laura Bailey, playing Ioreth Liam O’Brien, playing Gollum and North, playing the Black Hand. Baker, who voiced Joel in The Last of Us, does the voice acting for the main character Talion, a ranger of Gondor who teams up with a spirit called a Wraith (voiced by Alastair Duncan) to go behind Sauron’s lines in Mordor and cause havoc. ![]()
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