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Ken Levine, Shadow of Mordor and “Narrative Lego”

Dec 16, 2014

Ken Levine (writing for The New York Review of Video Games , which, despite the cheeky name, is actually a pretty interesting endeavour) has some surprisingly lofty praise for Shadow of Mordor : There are two games that really kicked off what we think of as the modern “open world” game: Super Mario 64 and Grand Theft Auto III. These games unshackled the player from linear progression through a...