WATCH: New 'Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor' story trailer shows off epic 2014 'Lord of the Rings' video game [VIDEO]

Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor is looking like one of the greatest video game adaptations of the J.R.R. Tolkien Hobbit and Lord of the Rings universe. This original story takes place some time between the two novels and introduces us to new characters and lore. Developers Monolith this week shared a brand new story trailer for the game coming out on October 7, 2014, allowing gamers to understand a bit more about this exciting new title.

Check out this new trailer here:

After enjoying that exciting story trailer, read what Monolith design director Michael de Plater had to say in a recent interview about the upcoming game.

"We get to explore our creativity and do something that hasn't been seen, but we get to do it 100 percent within the canon and authentic to the lore," de Plater said. "That was something within the lore that was important to us, to explore these characters with interesting shades of gray. Characters that are more along the lines of Saruman, wanting to raise an army to challenge Sauron, or Boromir or Denethor or Theoden, or Thorin with his fall because of the temptation of the Arkenstone, or Thranduil. There are all these amazing characters in The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings that aren't just good guys or bad guys."

"There was a line Tolkien wrote, which is, 'We were all orcs in the Great War,'" de Plater reminded us. "We didn't want to have a kind of generic fantasy approach to the orcs. We wanted to treat them as what orcs represent. These are like human beings, but they're human beings who are driven by the emotional extremes of fear and hate."

Read more from this interview HERE!