Lord of the Rings: Gollum Fans Are Concerned After Latest Trailer
A new trailer for The Lord of the Rings: Gollum left a vocal portion of the fandom concerned about the upcoming game, adding to the existing skepticism surrounding the project. The latest promo dropped weeks after Daedalic Entertainment announced a new release window for LOTR: Gollum.
Announced in early 2019, Gollum was initially slated for a 2021 release before slipping into 2022, when it was delayed twice more. While few fans were expecting it to challenge for the title of the highest-rated The Lord of the Rings game ever, those consecutive postponements added to the initial doubts about Gollum's ability to carry a game.
New Lord of the Rings Gollum Trailer Shows Off Middle-Earth, Gandalf, and More
Those concerns seem to have been exacerbated by the March 9 debut of the latest LOTR: Gollum trailer, with many fans now once again questioning the decision-makers responsible for greenlighting the project. Apart from the fact that Gollum doesn't exactly give off protagonist energy, a portion of the fandom also argued that diluting his story with an original adventure is redundant, positing that Tolkien already gave him a perfectly complete character arc. Others have taken online to voice their disappointment with the fact that the protagonist isn't voiced by Andy Serkis, who played Gollum in LOTR movies. Others still took aim at the fact that even this latest trailer offered little in the way of actual gameplay beyond «1-second snapshots,» as one fan put it, which—four years from the game's original announcement—they found frustrating. For clarity, the developers did reveal plenty of LOTR: Gollum gameplay details in the past, but only in writing.
Beyond the fact that many fans are taking to social media to express their
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