{"id":29534,"date":"2023-05-25T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/the-lord-of-the-rings-gollum-review-some-great-level-design-mired-in-problems\/"},"modified":"2023-05-25T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T14:00:00","slug":"the-lord-of-the-rings-gollum-review-some-great-level-design-mired-in-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/the-lord-of-the-rings-gollum-review-some-great-level-design-mired-in-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lord of the Rings: Gollum review &#8211; some great level design mired in problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\nThe greatest achievement in The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is Gollum himself. He&#8217;s a beautifully realised thing. His stance is a nervous, weight-shifting crouch. His run is a giddy, loping scamper. His movements seem shaped by his own poor experience of the world, forever flinching from expected blows. And that head, on top of that short, sinewy body, it&#8217;s huge and filled with craftiness and sly wit. The large wet eyes shift constantly, looking for an opportunity, any opportunity. The mouth is a pinched snarl. Gollum, hidden in the dark, swimming in sewage, rattling through a blazing blood-coloured mine, looks like Linus van Pelt on the single worst day of his life. This is not a dig &#8211; it&#8217;s exactly how Gollum should look.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nGollum&#8217;s always been a fascinating splinter of chaos in the Tolkien books. The other characters simply aren&#8217;t like this, as broadly sketched on the surface, as openly cartoonish, but with such haunted depths. Other characters don&#8217;t argue with themselves bitterly over what to do. Other characters don&#8217;t kill people on their birthdays. Other characters don&#8217;t seem as strangely modern as Gollum, either. He has a wretched kind of star power that I reckon &#8211; don&#8217;t hate me &#8211; is missing from the other Hobbits and what-have-you. Gollum is unforgettable.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNow he has his own game, a stealth and action adventure with a lot of platforming. It&#8217;s set &#8211; I&#8217;m being loose here &#8211; in the gap between the Hobbit and Gollum&#8217;s reappearance in Lord of the Rings. Gollum&#8217;s lost his precious, but he really wants it back. Ever wonder what he got up to during this time? Now you can find out.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/the-lord-of-the-rings-gollum-review-some-great-level-design-mired-in-problems\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source &#8211; eurogamer.net<\/p>\n<p>All content and images belong to their respected owners. 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