

The easiest way to sum it up is Batman: Arkham Whatever has been transported to Middle-earth after an all-night session with Assassin’s Creed. It’ll probably also make ranged combat a bit easier, too.
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Controlling Talion does feel a little bit sluggish on keyboard, possibly because the free running key defaults to Space and holding down the space bar makes me feel a bit odd, but like I said – it should be perfectly playable if you don’t have another option or if you’re willing to spend a bit of time configuring the controls to something sane. I did, really! And I fully believe that Shadow of Mordor is entirely playable with mouse and keyboard, assuming you rebind a few of the controls (CTRL is interact, and Shift is stealth? What?) to something that makes a bit more sense. This lasts a few seconds, and then everything’s silky-smooth again.Īs for the controls… well, I tried playing with mouse and keyboard. About the only time I’m seeing slowdown is right after I jump into control of the game (after loading or after a cutscene) which is presumably while the game is loading most of the assets in. Right now I’m running the game with what it auto-detected as the optimal settings for me (which you can see in the screen above – I haven’t touched them) and it appears to be running perfectly smoothly. I mentioned that it seemed pretty well optimised, but some more detail is probably in order.

I will concede that this isn’t necessarily a major thing, but I daresay it’s going to be fantastic for anyone who’s wondered exactly what tessellation or ambient occlusion do if you’re unsure of how each setting will impact the game and you’re trying to tweak things to make Shadow of Mordor look good but run smoothly, this will help. It seems to be fairly well optimised, it lets you set your own FPS cap, it has a whole lot of tweakable graphic options, and – perhaps most impressively – it actually tells you what those options do.
