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Jan 16th, 2018 at 21:19:44 - Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor (PC) |
Today was my first day playing Shadows of Mordor for the assignment. Since I have been pretty ill for the past few days, I did not play more than the required 30 minute minimum. This meant that the majority of my play session was focused on the introduction of the game and being taught how to play. I had a very enjoyable time playing Shadows of Mordor, I understood the mechanics and controls right away and felt ready to jump into the game. I managed to complete the tutorial and two other missions within the session today.
From an ethics point of view, I already can understand why this game will work really well for the assignment. Within the first 10 minutes of the game, you witness your son and wife die at the hands of terribly evil people. It becomes apparent very quickly that the game is about getting revenge on the people who took your family away. While I haven't made it far into the plot, yet, I have already killed quite a bit of orcs in the name of revenge. I feel that a good point for this will be: "do the ends justify the means?". Also, there is an interesting mechanic within the game, execution. With is you can take a downed enemy and kill them outright. This means that you are consciously choosing to end a life instead of just hacking and slashing until the thing stops moving. Semantically, they are pretty much the same thing, but when you are actually performing the act, there is something much heavier present.
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