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Here’s your first look at Lord Of The Rings: GollumIt’s what everyone’s Tolkien about
It’s what everyone’s Tolkien about
Some of the very first screenshots from Daedalic Entertainment’sThe Lord Of The Rings: Gollumhave appeared on the internet, and it looks fairly decent. The image above is one of the better ones to get a look at how the titular cave gremlin will look, and he sure does look like Gollum. The developers said previously that this iteration of himwouldn’t look like he does in the movies, but I dunno, I think he definitely has a resemblance to the movies' take on the character. Just a bit more frog-like.
Jay had a chat with them last yearback when the game was in pretty early development, and they mentioned they wanted to bring in some sort of feature that played on the character’s two personalities. What they talked about then seems a lot like what we’re seeing in that first image, giving the player the option to choose between which to react as.
Here’s a few more of those first-look screens fromGameStar’s preview :
Lots of dark brooding backgrounds, as expected from a corrupted hobbit creature that lives in caves, I suppose. There is one pretty green one in there though, perhaps that’ll be some sort of glimpse at Gollum’s life before he found the ring. Lord Of The Rings stories are fond of their flashbacks.
The game is supposed to be completely based off of the books, but it must be difficult working on something like that when the films are so well emblazoned into the minds of fans already. The story at least has hopes of distancing itself from the films a bit, as Jay found out in her interview:
“He’s not your typical hero that comes to a place and is cheered on, he’s always sort of treated with a mixture of pity and disgust.”
Most of what the game actually entails is a bit of a mystery at the moment. But Lord Of The Rings: Gollum is currently set for a 2021 release, so hopefully we’ll hear some more info on it the coming months.
