Monolith Productions

Not to be confused with Monolith Soft, a Japanese video game studio.

Monolith Productions, Inc.

File:Monolith Productions logo.png Logo from 2005 to present
Type	Subsidiary of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
Industry	Interactive entertainment Computer and video games
Founded	October 1994 (1994-10)
Headquarters	Kirkland, Washington, USA
Products	Video games
Owner	Time Warner
Number of employees	100+
Parent	Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
Website	www.lith.com

Monolith Productions (or simply Monolith) is a Kirkland, Washington-based computer game developer known for their games Blood, the No One Lives Forever series, F.E.A.R and more recently, Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor. Monolith is also known for the development of the graphical game engine LithTech, which has been used for most of their games and premièred with Shogo: Mobile Armor Division in September 1998; they also used Brian Goble's Windows Animation Package 32 engine for their 2D games. Between 1997 and 1999, Monolith also published games, some developed by the studio, some by third parties.

In 2004, Monolith Productions was acquired by Warner Bros., a subsidiary of Time Warner.

List of video games

1997–2003

Year	Title	Platform(s)								Metacritic Score (PC)
		Amiga	DOS	GBA	Lin	Mac	PS2	Win	Xbox
1997	Blood	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	82/100
1997	Claw	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	N/A
1998	Rage of Mages	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	N/A
1998	Get Medieval	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	N/A
1998	Shogo: Mobile Armor Division	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	88/100
1998	Blood II: The Chosen	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	72/100
1999	Gruntz	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	N/A
1999	Rage of Mages II: Necromancer	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	N/A
1999	Septerra Core: Legacy of the Creator	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	72/100
1999	TNN Outdoors Pro Hunter 2	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	N/A
1999	Gorky 17/Odium	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	N/A
2000	Sanity: Aiken's Artifact	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	73/100
2000	The Operative: No One Lives Forever	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	91/100
2001	Tex Atomic's Big Bot Battles	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	N/A
2001	Aliens versus Predator 2	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	85/100
2002	No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy in H.A.R.M.'s Way	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	91/100
2003	Tron 2.0	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	84/100
2003	Contract J.A.C.K.	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	56/100
Notes A These games were published, not developed, by Monolith Productions.

2005–present

Year	Title	Platform(s)						Metacritic Score
		Lin	PS3	PS4	Win	X360	X1
2005	The Matrix Online	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	69/100
2005	F.E.A.R.	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	88/100
2005	Condemned: Criminal Origins	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	78/100
2008	Condemned 2: Bloodshot	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	82/100
2009	F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	79/100
2012	Gotham City Impostors	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	65/100
2012	Guardians of Middle-earth	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	56/100
2014	Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	86/100
Notes A The metacritic score came from the PlayStation 3 version of the game.

External links

• Monolith's official website
• Monolith Productions profile on MobyGames
• Monolith Productions entry on Giant Bomb
• Blood Wiki article (contains sections of the history of the company)