Gollum is way worse than even our lowest expectations (Review)

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Gollum is the worst thing I've played this year. In fact, it's the worst thing I've played in a long time.

#Gollum #LOTR #Review
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All Comments (21)
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  • @DolanDarker
    It looks like a PS3 game with facial animations from a PS2 game, truly a masterpiece of all time
  • @rod1028
    Gollum looks like he’s addicted to a lot more than just the one ring.
  • @vsf_dave811
    As a world renowned Tolkien scholar, I can confirm that Tolkien did in fact intend for Gollum to wall run but knew that the world wasn’t ready for such a groundbreaking innovation so it wasn’t included in the books
  • “Gollum eats birds he doesn’t raise them” is so real and says it all
  • @stevena105
    The inconsistent controls is just the game immersing you in Gollum's descent into madness.
  • @SteveElOtaku
    Gollum in canon: "What's it got it in its nasty pocketses?" "WE HATES THE BAGGINSES" Gollum here: "I must perform taskeses for Lord Bezoses, or else no bathroom breakses, gollum..."
  • 21:56 The fact Gollum can't easily get out of a body of water shows the developers didn't ask for Tolkien expert (or whatever) because Gollum is a Stoors Hobbit, and his people was known for swimming and boats
  • @Herr_Gamer
    I know like seven guys and two women that can do a near movie accurate gollum voice. How could they not have found someone with a decent gollum impression?
  • @artyjnrii
    Hopefully this kickstarts the Gollum-like genre which involves making anything you like, but having you play as Gollum.
  • "Hopefully non canon" is one of the more casually brutal notes I've heard in a review
  • I’m convinced that the reason this plays so badly and is so broken and unpolished is because people couldn’t bare to play it more than once when they were ‘testing’ it, so they were just like “yep… that-that’s fine!”
  • @Nuclearsnow
    Gollum doesn’t escape, he’s set free… they even got that wrong 😂
  • @Nevarro_
    I can't believe they had the balls to release this as a full price title
  • @Tyrian3k
    This doesn't just look unfinished, this looks like they just made a proof of concept build and shipped that as a final product.
  • @stevenshea990
    21:58 this especially funny when Tolkien specifically points out that Smaegol's people are uniquely good at swimming for hobbits.
  • Gollum didn't even have to escape from Mordor in the first place. After Sauron got the info about Baggins and the Shire he let Gollum go, because he knew Gollum would inevitably go after the ring and could unwittingly help Sauron in locating it
  • I think canon Gollum would have just eaten the raw eggs, not hatched a bird companion. 😅
  • @Dodgelayne
    Whoever convinced the Publisher to send out review copies deserves some kind of medal
  • @dah3071
    Those mine tasks could have easily been used for gollum to passively gain information he uses against other prisoners for favors or grabbing and hiding items away to use later for his escape, using smegul to make himself seem meek and none threatening to tougher sorts and gollum to manhandle the weaker ones into doing what he wants until he practically starts a riot and blows up a load of tunnels to slip away in the confusion