The Shadows of Mordor

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The Shadows of Mordor
Studio Beam software
Publisher Melbourne House
Erstveröffent-
lichung		 1987
platform Amstrad CPC , Apple II , Commodore 64 , Mac OS , MS-DOS , ZX Spectrum
Game engine Inglish
genre Text adventure
Subject Fantasy ( Tolkien's World )
Game mode Single player
control keyboard
medium Floppy disk , cassette
language English

The Shadows of Mordor , also Shadows of Mordor: Game Two of Lord of the Rings , is a text adventure from the Australian computer game manufacturer Melbourne House from 1987. It is an official licensed product for the fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien and the sequel to The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings: Game One . It was released for Amstrad CPC , Apple II , C64 , DOS , Mac OS , ZX Spectrum .

action

The plot follows on from the previous one and is based on the journey of Frodo and Sam from the Rauros Falls to Mordor, as described in the volume The Two Towers .

Game principle and technology

The Shadows of Mordor is a text adventure, that is, the environment and events are displayed as screen text and the visualization is largely up to the player's imagination. The character is controlled via commands that the player enters using the keyboard and that are processed by a parser . The commands are in natural language and allow the game character to interact with his environment. The player can move through the game world, find objects, apply them to the environment or other objects and communicate with NPCs . As the story progresses, more locations in the game world will be unlocked. In contrast to classic text adventures, which do not have any graphic decoration, The Shadows of Mordor offers a picture of the respective environment in many places in the game world.

reception

reviews
publication Rating
Computer and video games 5/10

Keith from the British magazine Computer & Video Games gave 5 out of 10 points and described the game as “ rather boring ” (German: “pretty boring”). Among other things, he criticized the performance of the text parser, whose recognition pattern he described as difficult to understand. The descriptive texts would also be bloated by countless superfluous information. Computer Gamer gave it a fun rating of 64%.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Shadows of Mordor . In: Computer & Video Games . No. 68, June 1987, p. 95. Text Archive - Internet Archive
  2. ^ Text archive - Internet Archive