![]() ![]() It could be fun to run around with Gollum, thanks to his surprising sprint speed, but he has a stamina meter that depletes in just a few seconds and takes far longer to replenish. It never feels like there’s any point to it, just busywork. There’s always some conceptually different scenario, like crawling through small openings to detonate explosives, but functionally it’s a series of marches across the same areas over and over again. There’s the chores phase, in which Gollum goes from one waypoint to another to complete some menial task. ![]() The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is scheduled to release on Steam and consoles on September 1.There are generally three phases to any level, and they range from uninteresting to just plain bad. It's difficult to tell which way the final game is going to lean, but I come away from its public reveal unenthused by the mix so far. After years of just existing as a name and pre-rendered concept footage, Gollum's first look was divided between visions of an uninspired stealth-action game and an intriguing throwback platformer. This part of the Gollum demo stirs something in me, strikes me as a game I might actually want to play.Īnd then the demo ends. Gollum has to climb to the heights of the massive chamber, jumping from handholds on a moving orrery high above the floor. ![]() ![]() It's the sort of open-ended platforming puzzle I really enjoyed in Prince of Persia: the Sands of Time, with the player being left to chart a path through a cavernous fantasy obstacle course. This portion also doesn't have any enemy characters, instead showing Gollum navigating the elf king's empty bedchamber. The court of Thranduil in the Mirkwood forms the other primary setting, and I'm pretty taken with its look, something halfway between the elven environments of Peter Jackson's movies and the Dreaming City from Destiny 2. The second portion of the demo is a bit more promising. (Image credit: Daedalic Entertainment) Silver Linings ![]()
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