13/05/2021
GAME PREVIEW!
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum
Expected Release: 2022
Developer: Daedalic (https://www.daedalic.com/)
Publisher: In-House
In the latest instalment to Middle Earth, you play as the creature formerly known as Sméagol, Gollum. The game aims to showcase Gollum’s story, to display the levels of destruction that the one ring caused to him, from his perspective instead of the Fellowships.
The game will focus heavily on stealth, as Gollum is not a fighter, so you must use whatever tactics you can to get through unscathed. You will soon find that Gollum has somewhat gained superhuman-like strength, due to him travelling Middle Earth by foot for almost 500 years, he is an expert in climbing and can easily scale buildings and mountains. He can also run on walls, swing on poles, slide down cliffs and crawl up various surfaces. As Well as these abilities he has very good hearing, especially when he is in the dark!
We have been teased with many different locations from Middle Earth to appear in the game, with Barad-Dur (Sauron’s tower) being one of the confirmed locations. The way the locations have been designed is to allow the player to immerse themselves in the surroundings, giving them the freedom to explore different areas and pass through the game through many different ways in each map.
In an early showcase with an early build of the game, there still seems to be some roughness with gollum's animations when moving, climbing etc, hopefully due to it being very early all of this will be smoothed out and addressed before release.
Are you looking forward to playing as Gollum? What are your thoughts and wishes? Let us know down below!
/Burbzyy