Our review of The Lord of the Rings: Gollum.
Gollum's always been a fascinating splinter of chaos in the Tolkien books. The other characters simply aren't like this, as broadly sketched on the surface, as openly cartoonish, but with such haunted depths. Other characters don't argue with themselves bitterly over what to do. Other characters don't kill people on their birthdays. Other characters don't seem as strangely modern as Gollum, either.
Finding this window of Gollum Time to expand upon effectively means that, despite best efforts, the story can't really go anywhere interesting. It feels doomed from the start. To put it in the language of film schools, Gollum can't evolve much here, because once this adventure's done, he's got to hit his marks in the Tolkien books, and he needs to be a certain person for those books - a person who has not evolved much since The Hobbit.
I love this stuff in principle, but sadly Gollum isn't up to it. The controls are sleepy but also wilful. You'll press a button and can't be sure the input will register. Or it might register and do something you didn't entirely expect. At times like this, I think of the early Tomb Raiders, which Gollum's design sometimes invokes.
There are plenty of game ideas that attempt to vary the pace - and a lot of lore to enjoy if that's your thing.
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