Every morning Gollum wakes up in his sad little bedroom that he shares with his roommates, and then they all head down to a central landing area where they are assigned their tasks for the day. While this is a canon part of Gollum’s story, it is incredibly boring and repetitive. For most of the time I was able to play, Gollum was trapped doing slave labour in the pits of Mordor. The main gameplay loop of The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is entirely uninteresting. The game’s framing device actually takes place during Gandalf’s interrogation of Gollum during these years. During this time, Gandalf is doing a great amount of research on the Ring, and part of that is learning about the creature Gollum and his small part in Sauron’s plan. Many people who haven’t read the books don’t realise this, but the time between Bilbo’s 111th birthday and the beginning of Frodo and Sam’s journey is actually several years. Anything that breaks the mold is interesting, but was a game about the nasty little gremlin man, Gollum, something that anyone actually wanted? Well, that I doubt. Developers have been trying to capture the magic of Tolkien’s work in an interactive form since 1982 with The Hobbit text adventure game all the way to the present day with the announcement of a new Lord of the Rings MMO.ĭespite all the different forms that a game set in Middle Earth could take, there have been a lot of misses throughout the years and most of them have been fairly straight adaptions of Tolkien’s two most popular works, the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings.
Middle Earth is an incredibly interesting world to set a game in.
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