I suppose to some that might seem interesting enough to fill in those story blanks, but for me the repetition got stale quite early on. Rather than a multi-biome, country spanning adventure, it spends a lot of time watching Gollum do… well, slavery things whilst eventually planning to escape. This is where, strangely, the bulk of the game is set. Starting at Mount Doom, the adventure starts properly with Gollum (the character) forced into slavery by the Orcs. Recounting his actions of the last five years between losing said ring and trying to find it, Gollum (the game) has players relive those moments. Having been caught and handed to the elves, Gandalf is here to question Gollum as to the whereabouts of the One Ring. One that sees Gandalf, voiced not by Sir Ian McKellen but someone trying hard, interrogate our slippery antihero. What is does set the scene for, however, is a framing device. So when I saw that Gollum (I’m not putting the full title each time) starts with him in jail, I couldn’t tell you when that canonically is. Broad strokes, I know, but the intricate details are absolutely lost on me. I mean, I get the general premise: ragtag crew takes powerful trinket into enemy lands to slam dunk it into lava. So, that disclaimer I made at the start? I wasn’t exaggerating, I don’t actually know much about Lord of the Rings. A third person adventure from the perspective of a kind-of-anti-hero, Gollum looks to bridge that gap nicely.īut does it hold up to the scrutiny people hold for the series, or should it slink back into the darkness and be forgotten? Let’s find out, shall we? Something About A Ring? Set after the events of The Hobbit but before The Fellowship, Gollum sees players take the titular mantle as he strives to get The One Ring back from Bilbo. But I respect the lineage, so I thought I would give The Lord of the Rings: Gollum a try when it came in.
Tried the books, managed to get to the third one, but it wasn’t for me. Slight disclaimer here (because I know there’ll be pitchforks): I’ve never watched the Lord of the Rings films. A big step for Daedalic here, is Gollum their breakthrough title or should it be cast into Mount Doom? Find out in the Finger Guns review:
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