The levels of the game that I saw in action, Cirith Ungol and Mirkwood, were both filled to the brim with climbing and platforming puzzles. True to Tolkien’s description, he’s a sneaky, stealthy boy who prefers to avoid head-on confrontation but can still do some damage when cornered.Īs a stealth-action game, prepare to do a lot of sneaking, as well as a lot of climbing. Gollum’s abilitiesīut speaking of Gollum, let’s go over his abilities. This is very much Gollum’s game, so who knows if we’ll even get to meet Frodo and the rest of the Fellowship.

The dev team confirmed that there wouldn’t be flashbacks to before he found the Ring. There’s a lot to play around with here in terms of story, but it won’t cross over with the Fellowship’s quest too much, allegedly ending somewhere around the Mines of Moria.

He eventually turned to go to Mordor, where he was captured by Sauron's forces and tortured into giving up the name of the One Ring’s new carrier, and where they could be found.Īfter leaving Mordor, Aragorn captured Gollum, and Gandalf interrogated him to find out what Sauron knows. In the time between The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings, Gollum is desperate to find the ring once again, and so he eventually leaves the cave which he’s called home for a couple of hundred years to try and track down Bilbo through Mirkwood, but the trail had gone cold. As a little recap, in The Hobbit, Gollum loses The One Ring, or The One Ring loses Gollum, I should say, only for it to be picked up by Bilbo Baggins and his handses. The Lord of the Rings: Gollum takes place roughly parallel to the events of the early chapters of The Fellowship of the Ring. Now Playing: The Lord of the Rings: Gollum 7 Things We Learned Plot By clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's

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