Upgrading to Mountain Lion from 2011 Snow Leopard

I have a Macbook Pro that I bought in 2011. I have been running under Snow Leopard without issues but have been looking into upgrading due to the fact that a game I am wanting to purchase minimally requires Lion. I have been told, by a tech person, that upgrading to Yosemite would be a lot on my computer and would likely cause issues like others have been having (I have been watching the reviews through the App Store). So I have been looking into Lion and Mountain Lion because I was told that since they were closer to my model it wouldn't be as hard on my computer as Yosemite or Mavericks would be.
Basically want to know / get a second opinion if anyone has gone from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion/Lion and if that worked well for them?
I don't know a lot about computers and just really don't want to mess up or crash my computer all because of a game!
Thank you!

I'm using Yosemite on an early 2008 iMac, so Yosemite should run on your computer. The biggest thing that would help Yosemite run better is maxing out your RAM.
I would pick Mountain Lion over Lion. Tried them both and Mountain Lion was much better.
One option is to create a new partition (~30- 50 GB), install the new OS, and ‘test drive’ it. If you like/don’t like it it, you can then remove the partition. Do a backup before you do anything. By doing this, if you don’t like it you won’t have to go though the revert process.
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