Developer Daedalic Entertainment and publisher NACON have revealed the system requirements and collector's edition bonuses for The Lord of the Rings: Gollum. I was ready to make fun of the fact they're calling the version that costs $US10 more expensive the «Precious Edition», and then I saw that it includes a Sindarin VO pack(opens in new tab) that replaces the speech of elven NPCs with authentic Sindarin, the Elf-Tongue devised by J. R. R Tolkien as part of the linguistic game that underlies his work, and actually I would quite like that.
Here's the rest of what you get in the Precious Edition, along with The Lord of the Rings: Gollum itself, and six emotes if you preorder either this or the standard non-precious edition for plebs.
They've certainly got my number, but then I'm one of the 37% of people who watched The Rings of Power all the way to the end(opens in new tab). Even I'm not sure how big the audience for a game about Middle-earth's least eligible bachelor is, however. Are people really lining up for a game about a slimy, fish-eating weirdo? And how many of those people have a 3080 and 32GB of RAM? Because that's what you'll need to see Gollum's pale, toast-rack chest at 1440p with ray tracing.
Ted Litchfield saw a demo of Gollum last year that left him unenthusiastic about its stealth, though he was a little more excited by an environmental puzzle section set in Mirkwood. «It's the sort of open-ended platforming puzzle I really enjoyed in Prince of Persia: the Sands of Time,» he wrote, «with the player being left to chart a path through a cavernous fantasy obstacle course. Gollum has to climb to the heights of the massive chamber, jumping from handholds on a moving orrery high above the floor. This part of
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