original gollum design for lord of the rings

We started with the person he was and then evolved him.” But in short, he doesn’t look like Andy Serkis. In fairness, Senior Producer Kai Fiebig said in an interview that “We don’t want to displease the folks who have only seen the movies. Regardless, the character model for Gollum is fantastic and captured the depth and pain of one of the best fictional characters in existence. While initial word said that the look of the titular anti-hero wouldn’t ape the look from Peter Jackson’s legendary Lord of the Rings film series it still appears as if a tiny bit of Andy Serkis snuck in there. Unfortunately, The Lord of the Rings: Gollum isn’t the Precious we’ve been searching for.The colors and shading fall somewhere between a cartoony adventure and something more serious such as Dishonored, with a new-look Gollum crawling around in the dark dankness. The Lord of the Rings: Gollum crafts a compelling story around Gollum and Smeagol, but it fails to craft a polished, stable or enjoyable gameplay experience. From the myriad gameplay issues that bog down the simple mechanics to the mind-numbing crashes capable of hampering progression, there is little about The Lord of the Rings: Gollum that’s polished or enjoyable. Ultimately, though, it’s the lack of polish and jankiness that is its undoing. While Daedalic’s vision for Middle-earth is filled with artistic beauty, it’s altogether let down by a terrible technical presentation that’s far behind today’s standards.

While the story is compelling with a great performance from Smeagol/Gollum, the remainder of the game is a woeful mess. The Lord of the Rings: Gollum isn’t that game.

One that had the daring to fill in Tolkien’s gaps, but still showed respect for the source material. The Lord of the Rings: Gollum could have ushered in a new era of The Lord of the Rings-based games.

Original gollum design for lord of the rings