Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor's Season Pass has been unveiled, offering early access to challenge modes, new story missions and access to future content.

Costing £19.99 / $24.99, anyone who opts to purchase the Season Pass before the game's launch later this year will manage to get access to some unique missions.The first of these is the ‘Guardians of the Flaming Eye’ Orc Warband mission, which gives players an opportunity to unlock the Rising Flame rune. Two new story missions have also been announced: 'Lord of the Hunt', which makes you hunt Mordor's beasts and explore the landscape, and 'The Bright Lord', which allows you to play as the great Elven smith Celebrimbor.Other benefits of the Season Pass include early access to the 'Trials of War' challenge series, which allows you to face off against legions of Sauron's forces before posting on a global leaderboard, and the usual promise of access to future runes, skins and new add-on content.We'll have much more on the game soon but for now you can check out our preview in which Talion hunts down Ratbag, a goblin slaver, and also read about why Lord of the Rings fans would be mistaken to write it off

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