http://www.pcgamer.com/2014/09/19/shadow-of-mordor-interview/
Nell'intervista di Settembre, in tema di Location dicono:
PCG: When the games begins will the whole world be available, or is there a process where areas are progressively unlocked? How will the exploration work?
Michael: Areas are unlocked progressively. We begin in Udûn, just inside the black gates where you start the game. Then you can explore anywhere within that area, which is many hours of gameplay. Then after that section of the story we open up an entire new area many hundreds of miles deeper into Mordor around the Sea of Nurnen. We unlock new areas but then within each area it’s completely open. We also put a lot of effort into making each one of those areas into a living breathing place, both with the Nemesis system and in the way the world comes to life.
The AI, eco-system, creatures, orcs and slaves... it's all very dynamic, so there's that sense of exploration. Even if you’re revisiting the same stronghold you’re going to see new events take place and you’re going to meet new characters there. There will be new opportunities to save the slaves there and so on.
Udun -> Come dicevo sopra, è la Location di partenza presso il Nero Cancello.. E' da vedere se con Udun intendano solo lo spiazzo di Udun, o intendano genericamente Udun e "dintorni" (quindi anche la zona adiacente di Gorgoroth con Barad-dur e Orodruin).. Ma probabilmente intendono proprio l'entrata di Mordor..
Sea of Nurn -> Location adiacente al mare di Nurn, quindi verde e ricca di vegetazione.. Dubito possa ricoprire tutto Nurn, probabilmente sarà la zona circostante il Mare territoriale, essendo quella la parte più verde e ricca..
In più affermano che si sbloccheranno "new areas completely open".. Quindi sicuramente oltre alle 2 sopracitate c'è dell'altro (a naso Gorgoroth)..
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Mentre qui, sempre nella medesima intervista, si parla di varietà di ambienti
PCG: Given the time period in Shadow of Mordor will we see diversity in the world's environment? Can you describe the different environments?
Phil: There is a nice diversity of environments. There are obviously many inspirations - the lore and the films - but another thing we talked about a lot was thinking about this as a wild frontier and thinking about what a place like Udûn or the Sea of Nurnen would look like without the influence of Sauron. What does all that look like when nature has had a chance to return?
We did some early concept paintings where foliage had come back into the Udûn area. Udûn still does have a dark overtone to it, it definitely feels like Mordor, but we also contrast that with a place like the Sea of Nurnen which has a lot more foliage, it’s a lot greener, it’s along a sea, it has big bluffs. To some extent it’s kinda beautiful, and I think that in itself is a bit of a surprise from a player’s standpoint, in terms of what they might expect from Mordor.
Weather was also a big thing to us, how we present the presence of Sauron and how we present the passage of time, and the narrative and the tone that we wanted to communicate relative to the gameplay and the story. We have another location which is very sandy, sandstorms happen and that obviously changes the presentation of the world as well.
Michael: Day and night are meaningful as well. [Depending on the time] creatures come out, the population behaves differently, the ambiance is very different.
Ribadisce -> Udun tipico stile di mordor (quindi a logica: aridità, cenere, roccia), mentre il Sea of Nurn è più verdeggiante e ricco.
Poi si parla del tempo delle varie location, e se non si accenna ad una Location che sarà molto "sandy" (sabbiosa), quindi penso che la terza Location potrebbe avere uno stile più arido e sabbioso, simil desertico..
Interessante (IMHO) tra l'altro, l'asserita rilevanza del ciclo giorno-notte, che dovrebbe interagire sulla popolazione di Mordor e sulle creature..
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