Smeagol on the other hand is the more optimistic, naive side, who remembers what it was like to feel emotions like happiness and love.Īs a result, they argue, and in the game, this is presented as a choice-driven gameplay mechanic: either side with Gollum, or Smeagol. The Gollum personality is full of hatred: hatred for the Elves, himself, and despite craving its return, even the Ring. His hundreds of years with the Ring changed him into the figure we know of him today, but over that time his personality cracked, for lack of a better word. Before being corrupted by the One Ring, Gollum was a Hobbit-like creature called Smeagol. We’ve talked a lot about Gollum, but we haven’t really talked about Smeagol, the other main character in this game, so to speak. There will be boss-like encounters, but they’ll be more puzzle-driven than combat. Gollum doesn’t have a huge weapon wheel of tools at his disposal, but you can pick up rocks and other small items to throw to create a distraction. You also need to make sure you even have enough stamina to finish the job, so honestly, sneaking might just be your best bet. You can knock out enemies, but it’s incredibly risky: First of all, unlike most modern stealth games, enemies make noise when attacked, and taking them down takes a while, so you really need to be sure that the coast is clear. It’s called Gollum vision, I don’t think that’s canon, but there was a sequence in Cirith Ungol where Gollum was avoiding two orcs and used Gollum vision to highlight hiding spots, the enemies in the environment, and even lead towards your objective. When it comes to stealth, just like practically every modern game with stealth elements… there’s a kind of Detective mode that you can activate. Gollum can leap over large gaps, as well as climb various formations in the environment like vines and rock faces, but he has a stamina bar that begins to run out when he’s just hanging on by his arms. The levels of the game that I saw in action, Cirith Ungol and Mirkwood, were both filled to the brim with climbing and platforming puzzles. True to Tolkien’s description, he’s a sneaky, stealthy boy who prefers to avoid head-on confrontation but can still do some damage when cornered.Īs a stealth-action game, prepare to do a lot of sneaking, as well as a lot of climbing. Gollum’s abilitiesīut speaking of Gollum, let’s go over his abilities. This is very much Gollum’s game, so who knows if we’ll even get to meet Frodo and the rest of the Fellowship. The dev team confirmed that there wouldn’t be flashbacks to before he found the Ring. There’s a lot to play around with here in terms of story, but it won’t cross over with the Fellowship’s quest too much, allegedly ending somewhere around the Mines of Moria. He eventually turned to go to Mordor, where he was captured by Sauron's forces and tortured into giving up the name of the One Ring’s new carrier, and where they could be found.Īfter leaving Mordor, Aragorn captured Gollum, and Gandalf interrogated him to find out what Sauron knows. In the time between The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings, Gollum is desperate to find the ring once again, and so he eventually leaves the cave which he’s called home for a couple of hundred years to try and track down Bilbo through Mirkwood, but the trail had gone cold. As a little recap, in The Hobbit, Gollum loses The One Ring, or The One Ring loses Gollum, I should say, only for it to be picked up by Bilbo Baggins and his handses. The Lord of the Rings: Gollum takes place roughly parallel to the events of the early chapters of The Fellowship of the Ring. Now Playing: The Lord of the Rings: Gollum 7 Things We Learned Plot By clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's
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