Garry Schyman is a master of unnverving music with his work on the Bioshock series and he returned along with Nathan Grigg to score Shadow of War. This suits the game far more appropriately. Once you get back inside the game it feels much closer to the tense, impending doom kind of feeling present in the original title, with choral parts and low register piano notes, it’s much more of a slowly evolving soundscape rather than a piece of music. The only comparison is that they are both orchestral works. The main melody line does still feature the high overtone alongside the violin theme but it feels very different.įor fans of the films, there’s not much similarity as the studio asked for a fresh sound. The brooding darkness of Mordor has been swapped for a more positive mood and some staccato strings. The difference in menu theme (often the first thing we encounter) is pretty apparent. It’s hard to forget the haunting strings, low vocals and ghostly drones of the original game. The original game focuses much more on the emotional turmoil within Talion with his family slaughtered and a quest for revenge. Shadow of Mordor felt much darker and moody than the new Shadow of War soundtrack. Soon after release, a few audio bugs were reported with some cutscenes not playing audio and added noise in some places, as well as playing back at a faster speed than it should for some players, however these problems seem to have been fixed with subsequent updates. Cirith Ungol and Minas Morgul are the main regions most fans would recognise and can now explore to their hearts content, while battling the Nazgul, Dragons and Balrogs! The nemesis system is back but with more beasties such as Olog-Hai and Trolls joining the ranks. Shadow of War amps up a few levels to give us a truly vast open world experience. If Mordor seems much bigger than you remember it, that’s because it is. Voice Cast: Troy Baker (Talion), Alastair Duncan (Celebrimbor), Pollyanna McIntosh (Shelob)ģ years after the success of Shadow of Mordor, we finally return to Middle Earth and reunite with Talion and his unbreakable bond to Celebrimbor. Sound Designer: Chris Burgess, Brandon Chang, Michael Norris, Brian Binning (Associate) Senior Sound Designer: Nick Braun, Lucas Carlyle, Morgan Green
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