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The Lord of the Rings: Gollum for PC is a third-person action-adventure game that follows the character of everyone’s favourite split-personality villain, Gollum. The game is set before the events depicted in the Lords of the Rings trilogy – and can be seen as Gollum/ Smeagol’s origin story, if you will.
You will play as Gollum, enjoying yourself as you pick up skills that he has mastered and honed over the last 500 years or so. There are plenty of favourite Middle-Earth locations to explore, each playing an important part in the shaping of Gollum into the crazed being who half creeps us out, half captures our sympathies. Play through Mirkwood; Cirith Ungol and Barad-Dur Tower – see more about these below.
Gandalf and the elven king of the time, Thranduil (who just happens to be Legolas’s future dad) make appearances, as do both sides of Gollum’s split personality. And, just in case blood-thirsty orcs aren’t scary enough for you, Shelob, the immense and terrifyingly hungry spider, appears in the game too.
Gollum – and his kinder Hobbit side, Smeagol – have fabulous climbing and parkouring skills, but the character doesn’t start out like the Gollum we all know and love – he starts out as a normal Hobbit and it is, in part, your decisions that cause the Gollum mutations away from the Smeagol norm. You could always make the morally correct choices: but this isn’t always wise as you will see below.
Gollum’s skills include stealth, with Gollum creeping about, using the shadows to his advantage. The game’s narrative arc is not completely spent in the darkness, protecting his precious from all and sundry – Gollum’s time as a slave under the dark tower is covered as is his time as a captive with the elves of Mirkwood.
As Gollum is small and frail, he must use guile and cunning along with stealth and his superb climbing skills to best his enemies, rather than facing them with a swinging sword. The section of the game based in Mordor includes the tutorial, so you will always start there, seeing and avoiding Orcs and learning your way around Gollum’s controls and seeing the dual options when the Smeagol and Gollum sides battle one another.
Gollum can lure unwary travellers to a quiet place to dispatch them, but this drains his stamina metre, so keep an eye on it, and – where possible – do your killing with stealth and distraction instead. There is no skill tree to master: Gollum has been waiting for you for 500 years and already has all the fully mastered skills he needs to win: it is you who must quickly learn to keep up!
The game developers are obviously fans of the Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit before it, as they have included plenty of Tolkienesque locations in Middle Earth:
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