Welcome to another Shadow of War video. The open world of mortars is a big part of what makes Shadow of War so appealing. At least to us. A larger open world always seems amazing, but creating an interactive world is also important. In this video we'll discuss if monolith delivers on the size of the open world and we'll take a look at the different regions and fortresses that will be playable. There is some exciting stuff, so let's get quickly into it. Let's start with the map size, since that's something you probably most interested in. First of all, Michael the player mentioned in an interview that the world of Shadow of War is 4 times larger than the world in Shadow of Mortar. Keep in mind that Shadow of Mortar had 2 regions, meaning that it will be roughly 8 times as large as each playable region in Shadow of Mortar. But we wanted to compare the map ourselves. With the metral edition came an image of the cloth map. We don't know if this map is an actual representation of the in-game map, but for the purpose of this video we'll assume it is. We'll go over the regions after the comparison, but one of them has been in Shadow of Mortar. Udon. So, when comparing this we're once again assuming 2 things. One that the size of Udon in Shadow of War is similar to that in Shadow of Mortar, and two that the scale of this map is the same as in game. When comparing Udon from Shadow of Mortar to Udon from Shadow of War, you can see that the map is huge, way bigger than the 4 times that Michael the player mentioned. So there's a little bit of discrepancy here. We actually managed to find some footage where they showed the distance to a fortress assault mission, and actually beforehand showed the map. Meaning we essentially could calculate the distance for the map. The sad thing is that the cloth map didn't show us the bottom part of Mortar. I mean we can calculate the size of the region of Nernan, but not for the entire map. We can have an approximation of the size of this region this way. What we did was the following. We drew a line on the map of Nernan between the player and the mission. We know that this distance is 1293 feet or just under 395 meters. We know that there is a high difference to keep in mind that it's probably slightly less than it actually shows. Sadly it's the best thing we have. What we did next is copy and paste this line horizontally. You can see it's about 5,350 feet wide, or for everyone that doesn't use the fucking metric system, it's 1,630 meters across. Fertically it's a bit smaller with it being just over 3600 feet or 1103 meters vertically. There you have the size of Nernan. Like we mentioned, we couldn't apply to the whole map as Nernan isn't visible on a jet, but it kind of gives us an image of the scale of the entire map. We quickly move on to the regions that are in the game. We don't know too much about how many and even which regions are confirmed. We know a few, but that's nothing new. Instead of showing you the regions, we'll show you the locations of the fortresses and look up the regions on the map. Sometimes multiple fortresses can reside in one region or so it seems. As can be seen from the end of the Minus Etyl gameplay trailer, we can see that there will be a lot of fortresses. From the top left to the bottom right we have Minus Etyl or Minus Morgo. This fortress is called Kirith Ungl. This is the tower where Frodo was captured and naked. We don't know what the region is called, but it's on top of the outer fence which are the mountains to the border on the west side of Mordor. Next there is also a fortress in the region of Udun, the region near the Black Gates, which is mainly covered in ashes and is a fairly dark region. It is the fortress of Durthang, as can be seen on the plot map. There is one fortress near Rododruin or Mandum. It could be part of the Karach-Angren region or the plateau of Gorgoroth. Both are on the cloth map. Which brings us to our next fortress which is Baradur. It lies in the region of Gorgoroth with Mandum. It's probably the end fortress since its sounds ultimate fortress. Further east lies Saragost, which is the large snowy region from the first gameplay trailer. North of it lies Fortress and with that region as well, but we couldn't find it on any map. It lies just beyond the mountains of Shadow. This could be Kyrgyz Gorgor, which was next to Dagarlad, where the big battle can surround to place. Even third in the north, far beyond the borders of Mordor lies another fortress. On both the cloth map and any mill earth map, there is nothing there. It's in the larger region of Rovanian and to the right of Dagarlad. To its left lies another fortress in Dagarlad and all the way to the right there is another one. We're turning to Mordor. We can see two more fortresses near the middle passage. The fortress on the right is called Tenan-Angren, but the one on the left is currently unknown. To the top left we can see that there are more fortresses. These are Osgiliath and Minas Tirith. There are two more to the left but these are unknown. This is pretty exciting since we're most likely going to Gondar as well. Following this we can see five fortresses towards the bottom and the right. These are Towerband, which is a fortress prison near Nernen. An unknown fortress on the island, the Nernen fortress we've seen in a gameplay. A fortress near Kant and finally a big fortress in Lidloth. These last two Kant and Lidloth are regions towards the eastern and southern border of Mordor. Finally we can see that there are two fortresses in a region below the sea of Nernen, which essentially are part of Nernen. We don't know the names of these yet. This brings the total of all the fortresses up to 23, which I believe was confirmed in a livestream. The exciting thing is that we're actually crossing the borders of Mordor and are heading into not only Gondor, which would be exciting enough, but also into Rovanian. In an article Michael the Platter confirmed that we're going outside the borders of Mordor and even mentioned Gondor in the citation, so it is highly probable. Check out the links in the description for even more information. That's it for now. Thanks for watching. Consider leaving a like if you enjoyed the video or dislike if you didn't. In either case leave us some constructive feedback on the video or comments and content. In case you want to stay updated, consider subscribing and clicking the notification bell for instant pop-ups when we upload. If you have any questions, want to share your ideas or if you simply want to start a discussion, let us know in the comment section down below. Once again thanks for watching and we'll hopefully see you soon.