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2014’s Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor was a significant departure from previous Lord of the Rings games. Most titles set in Tolkien’s rich fictional world beforehand were either action-based hack-and-slash-em-ups (which IS a thing!) or RPGs of varying quality. As much…