Director Denies Copying Assassin’s Creed, Says Everything in Shadow of Mordor is Built “From the Ground Up”

Earlier this year Monolith and Warner Bros. unveiled Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor, a third person action game based in the Lord of the Rings universe. The game immediately drew comparisons to the Assassin’s Creed series, so much so that former Ubisoft developer Charles Randall accused them of stealing animations and code from Assassin’s Creed II.

In talking with GameSpot, design director Michael…

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