14 DAY TRIAL // Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor apparently is the one game to rule them all, if them refers to video RAM, at least.
Monolith's game is one of the most anticipated titles of the moment, an action role-playing game that blends gameplay similar to that of the Assassin's Creed series with the sprawling and fascinating fantasy world of J. R. R. Tolkien.
From what the developer has shown so far, the game looks great on consoles, especially on the Xbox One and PlayStation 4, putting the considerable computing power of the two systems to good use, but the latest development involves the PC port of the title.
An image has popped up on NeoGaf, showing that Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor requires an unprecedented 6 GB of VRAM in order to use Ultra quality textures at a resolution of 1920x1080.
Granted, for the time being, we have no data other than this screenshot, but most likely we'll hear from the team at Digital Foundry pretty soon.
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor follows the story of a ranger who is killed along with his family when Sauron's army exits from the Black Gate, and who, empowered by an ancient spirit with a grudge of its own, comes back from the dead and heads into Mordor to inflict his vengeance upon the orcs and the Dark Lord.
The game is coming out on September 30 on PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4, and on November 18 on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.