LOTR: Gollum's Gameplay Trailer Reveals Surprisingly Little Gameplay
Daedalic Entertainment has released a gameplay trailer for The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, which shows very little actual gameplay. LOTR: Gollum is an action-adventure game that takes place during the events of The Fellowship of the Ring. Players will assume the role of Gollum in his quest to find the One Ring, with the player's actions determining whether Gollum or Sméagol triumphs as the dominant personality. Although not much was revealed in the recent trailer, it's already clear that Gollum will be starkly different than the Middle-Earth Lord of the Rings games developed by Monolith Productions.
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum was first announced in 2019, and unlike the majority of games based on the world of J.R.R. Tolkein, it isn't inspired by the Peter Jackson films. Developer Daedalic Entertainment has instead come up with its own aesthetic for Middle-Earth, which it has been steadily revealing via trailers and gameplay screenshots. Gollum himself does bear a striking resemblance to the creature played by Andy Serkis, however, showing that Jackson's films have had some influence on the game's interpretation.
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Though a large portion of the gameplay trailer shown by Daedalic Entertainment is composed of cutscenes, some of LOTR: Gollum's stealth/adventure hybrid gameplay was shown. Gollum crawls around fields, caves, and mountains, staying out of the orcs' lines of sight. He hides in tall grass and behind rocks, climbs up vines and across some ledges, and even swims for a couple of seconds, with a breath meter being briefly shown at the bottom of the screen. However, considering how few modern Lord of the Rings games exist, the lack of detail
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