Can you believe it" It’s been two whole years since Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor was released on the PlayStation 4 and impressed us enough to bag our 2014 Game of the Year award. 
To mark this occasion, Monolith has shared quite a few interesting Shadow of Mordor stats over the two course of two years, and yep, there’s a lot of Uruk heads that got killed along the way. Additionally, the devs themselves share a fair bit during their time developing the game.

?For the intro stealth tutorial I was in charge of hooking up the animations. (The sequence where you?re tasked with sneaking up on Talion?s wife and surprising her with a bouquet of flowers.) We didn?t have the finished animations right away, so I needed to find something placeholder to get the tutorial playable. I looked through all of our existing combat animations for the most romantic paired animation between two characters. The first pass that went out to the team was Talion?s sneaky surprise being greeted by a firm headbutt from Ioreth.? -Brian Frantz, Designer, Systems
?During development, it was so much trial and error to get Captain showdowns to work. And when we finally saw the first examples, we could see that those moments were going to be great! Getting the camera framing just right, the Uruk?s eyes looking directly at the camera, their lips synced, and the right dialog hooked up made the showdowns way more emotionally powerful than I admittedly thought was possible.?
-Chris Hoge, L...