The Lord of the Rings: Gollum Reviews
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I didn’t hate The Lord of the Rings: Gollum. There’s actually a few things the game does well. I believe that the premise is decent, and with the right execution, it could have been great. However, The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is not that game, and fails at being a game on every level. It doesn’t just squander what it did well, but completely and utterly ruins it. I’m a huge Lord of the Rings fan, so a game like this should be within my wheelhouse. However, its total failure as a ga...
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The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is a poorly designed, bug-ridden, untested game that’s only redeeming quality doesn’t matter in the whole picture.
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Play as Gollum on his quest to retrieve his Precious. You will need to climb the mountains of Mordor, sneak around Mirkwood and make difficult choices. Who will gain the upper hand: the cunning Gollum or the innocent Smeagol? PC version reviewed.
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The Lord of the Rings: Gollum launches today on PC and consoles, following the titular character's journey leading up to the events of the War of the Ring. However, crashes and bugs have made Gollum's progress back to his Precious slow and tedious.
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It is good to know that we already know the worst game of the year in May. Do yourself a favor and forget about The Lord of the Rings: Gollum - it is anything but precious.
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Much like the namesake character himself, The Lord of The Rings: Gollum couldn't be saved from what it became. Frustrating platforming coupled with boring gameplay and cheap ways to die make any experience hard to play. Unfortunately, the intriguing setting and lore exploration can't come close to overshadowing the game's fundamental issues.
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When it comes to the Lord of the Rings, there are a few levels of fandom. Some people, of course, think the whole fantasy genre is a bunch of silly nonsense. We’ll ignore them. Then there are those who have read the books, maybe more than once. And seen the movies, too, it goes without saying. Finally, there are the super fans, who regard J.R.R. Tolkien’s masterpiece as fantasy’s Bible, Koran, and Upanishads all rolled into one, able to recite long passages by memory. if the developers of Lord of the Rings: Gollum don’t fit into the latter category, the...
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At times, an event or character can be profoundly impactful to its originating fiction, but not the right choice for a dedicated spotlight project of its own. It’s hard to think of a more potent case in point than The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, a game that fundamentally misunderstands the appeal of its source franchise, focusing on a character who, by almost any measure, is the wrong choice for a lead. That said, it’s not impossible to imagine the game that might somehow have made the unusual premise click. This is not that project; like its miserable and piteous...
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“The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is such a mess of barely formed ideas that it feels like a game still in its pre-alpha stage.”
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The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is an unwelcome throwback to the days when licensed games were synonymous with low quality. Thanks to its dreary gameplay, stilted story and unacceptable technical issues, slogging through its 12-hour campaign is about as much fun as walking barefoot across the fiery plains of Mordor.
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Middle Earth is an incredibly interesting world to set a game in. Developers have been trying to capture the magic of Tolkien’s work in an interactive form since 1982 with The Hobbit text adventure game all the way to the present day with the announcement of a new Lord of the Rings MMO.
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A strong sense of character is let down by poor controls, fiddly implementation, and bugs.
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The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is a great game for hardcore Middle-earth fans, but an experience that didn't do Gollum's character justice.
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The Lord of the Rings: Gollum doesn't do anything fun or interesting than similar (better) games like A Plague Tale: Innocence and Requiem. To be honest, this feels like a game made just to ensure the publisher could retain rights to the IP. It's hard to say if even the most loyal Lord of the Rings fans would actually find something worthwhile here. Considering good Lord of the Rings games exist, this one feels incredibly out of place.
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This stealth adventure has its charms, despite a fractured identity.
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The premise of a Gollum game was already questionable when it was first announced, but I tend to be optimistic, as I usually find the oddest ideas to be the most surprising, that is, if, and only if they work. Sadly that’s not the case with Gollum, as it’s more of a game going through the motions without ever finding its footing in the process. It has some cool ideas and attempts to execute them, but they never once felt realized throughout the journey. Couple the somewhat uninteresting story and the frustrating, clunky gameplay to accompany the rest of the...
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The Lord of the Rings: Gollum sheds light on the eponymous character — and reveals its flaws.
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The Lord of the Rings: Gollum was conceptually a game with some promise, but from what I've seen so far, it's a mediocre and messy experience that doesn't really come together into a cohesive whole. That is, of course, before coming to the bugs, the crashes and the game-breaking progression issues that make it impossible to complete at this time. Considering that I was actually looking forward to this, this one really stings.
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The Lord of the Rings: Gollum fails to live up to both the Tolkien name and its own potential. From exhausting, repetitive gameplay to a poorly constructed narrative, this is a piece of Middle-earth you should never explore.
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Despite being presented as a lonely creature, Gollum gets more attention than he might deserve in The Lord of the Rings: Gollum. With average by-the-books platforming and stealth gameplay, there actually is a thoughtful and engaging story at the heart of Gollum. It’s up to fans of the genre to decide whether time spent on ordinary gameplay is worth experiencing Gollum’s history.
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Gollum isn’t protagonist material, at least not for a video game. He is a wretched creature who only survived the events of The Hobbit because Bilbo took pity on him. If The Lord of the Rings: Gollum can be said to have one achievement, it perfectly emulates the painful experience of being Gollum, as it makes you feel just as sad and wretched as Sméagol himself. This story didn’t need to be told, as the exciting parts of Gollum’s life were displayed in Tolkien’s works, and this game ...
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Much like its title character, The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is compromised, inelegant, and a bit of an eyesore. To everyone except the most fervent of Tolkienites; you shall pass.
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The Lord of the Rings: Gollum poses itself as an epic quest across the treacherous realms of Middle-earth, where an inner conflict will rage inside the mind of one halfling. Of course we refer to the split-personality of both Smeagol and Gollum, an integral character across both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings stories. Filling in the blanks between both of those tales, Daedalic's third-person stealth platformer will let you take control of the titular menace as he continues his never-ending search for his precious ring. Sadly, the only precious thing about our time with Gollum was the...
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