The climbing feels similar to Assassin’s Creed and Uncharted but not as smooth and intuitive, as you’d expect given the gulf in budgets. The majority of your time will be spent solving environmental puzzles by climbing various structures in order to complete your objectives. The second part of the game takes place in Mirkwood, where objectives are just as uninspired and drawn out. Quite frankly, the experience feels like a prison sentence, bordering on tortuous monotony with drawn-out missions that feel like nothing more than padding. Opening with Gollum being interrogated by Gandalf in Mirkwood, you’ll spend the first part of the game around Mordor and most of it in prison, where you’ll be forced to do mundane tasks, such as collecting the tags of deceased prisoners, herding beasts and setting off explosives. Sadly, the game’s design feels dated, with half-baked mechanics and a narrative that could take up to 15 hours to complete, the end result is a tedious experience that long overstays its welcome. It’s a third-person adventure with a fair helping of platforming and environmental puzzles, with some stealth sections, fetch quests and escort missions added to balance out the recipe. The Lord of the Rings: Gollum (LotR: Gollum) sees you play as the titular character as he seeks to recover his lost magical and powerful ring – the item he calls his “precious”. After playing Daedalic Entertainment’s take on the cave-dwelling creature, I’m convinced that this game should follow the same fate – condemned to the fiery depths of Mount Doom never to be seen or heard from again. There’s no doubt that Gollum is one of the series’ more intriguing characters, but does his story require his own game? The answer is subjective of course, but initially, I leant towards a no. But what do you do when the well starts to run a little dry? You look to supporting characters that could use their own dedicated experience, which is how we end up with games like The Lord of the Rings: Gollum. It’s certainly a well that creatives have drawn from numerous times. Tolkien and beginning life as a novel, Tolkien’s words and universe have been translated into acclaimed cinematic epics, as well as popular TV shows and video games, and even a musical. It’s hard to think of many IPs with the brand power of The Lord of the Rings.
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