Gequält von seiner gespaltenen Persönlichkeit, kann er bösartig und niederträchtig sein wie Gollum, aber auch freundlich und vorsichtig wie Smeagol.

What is clear is that it’s not fun to play, and not something to recommend to any but the most curious and dedicated Lord of the Rings fan.Why, of all the interesting characters in The Lord of the Rings lore, would anyone want to play an entire game as Gollum? On three different occasions during this review levels needed to be fully restarted: once because of an unfortunately placed autosave, and twice because parts of puzzles were outright broken, so despite the solution being evident there was no way to advance.

After being corrupted by the Ring over hundreds of years, Gollum has developed exceptional agility and sharp wits. Te meterás en la piel del enigmático Gollum en su peligroso viaje para averiguar cómo superó en ingenio a los personajes más poderosos de la Tierra Media. Torturado por su personalidad desdoblada, puede ser cruel y malvado como Gollum, pero amistoso y cauto como Sméagol. I couldn’t shake the feeling I was supposed to be on a grand Lord of the Rings adventure, and was instead stuck collecting bits and baubles for forgettable NPCs and hiding in bushes to hide from monotonous guard patrols. It's up to you to decide which of his personalities will triumph in the difficult moral choices that will dictate the future of your precarious alliances.Gollum then leaves Mirkwood to find the Shire, but finds himself trapped in the mines of Moria behind its locked entrance. Sign up to receive daily breaking news, reviews, opinion, analysis, deals and more from the world of tech. Until Gollum meets Sam and Frodo in Tolkien's books, he operates mostly as a passive observer of, and victim to, events around him, and the game's plot reflects this lack of agency, colouring in the gaps of his backstory with low-stakes contextual filler involving a lot of prison labour drained of narrative momentum.

There's a Story mode, single race and Cup Series tournaments, and even some minigames to get stuck into.You can download and play this content on the main PS5 console associated with your account (through the “Console Sharing and Offline Play” setting) and on any other PS5 consoles when you login with your same account. While Gollum is no fighter, he is more than capable of strangling a careless enemy when the opportunity presents itself… or of finding a more creative and less risky way of getting out of trouble. It’s mostly standard, innocuous fare geared towards LOTR fans, with an artbook, soundtrack, and in-game emotes for Gollum. Perhaps there is a Gollum game that could work at both a narrative and mechanical level, one that reframes our relationship with the iconic character to the point where people think twice before doing their terrible impressions of him at parties.