Gollum has, for lack of a better term, “Gollum-Vison” that will help guide you to where objectives are located as well as the direction Gollum should head.

You’ll have to use Gollum’s skills in climbing and sneaking to traverse the world around you and at times may have to throttle an Orc or two from the shadows. Just like mentioned above, I’ll go more into that in a bit.Īs for the gameplay, it’s actually pretty fun. The same can be said about the world the game takes place in. When it comes to the game’s art, it’s decent, but don’t expect characters from the films to look the way you would like them to. When it comes to the game’s soundtrack and the voice acting of the title character Gollum, sorry fans of the films, Gollum sounds nothing like Andy Serkis’ Gollum, and the soundtrack, though epic, is nothing like the films.

Now onto the game itself! The Lord of the Rings: Gollum‘s controls are surprisingly simple and the game has a great tutorial level at the start, but thankfully still gives you prompts of what buttons to press to perform certain mechanics. The events of the game take place 60 years after Gollum lost the One Ring, which he calls his Precious, and has spent years searching Middle Earth for the one who took it, Bilbo Baggins, but finds himself drawn to Mordor. The Lord of the Rings: Gollum follows, well who else… Gollum, and Smeagol, for those not familiar, the title character has split personality after being consumed by the power of the One Ring and taking ownership of it, torturing his mind. Daedalic Entertainment has filled in the gaps with their stealth game The Lord of the Rings: Gollum. Anyone who’s seen the movies is familiar with Gollum’s part in the stories of the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings films, but not about what happened to him between the events of the two film series.

Out of all the character-rich world of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings that are deserving of a game, the last individual you would expect would be the former Hobbit turned ghoul, Smeagol, or as he’s known by his more nefarious nickname/personality, Gollum, who is reviled in the books but was sort of a fan favorite in the Peter Jackson films thanks in part to the talent of Andy Serkis who voiced, and motion captured the character.

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