The unsung hero of The Lord of The Rings, Gollum himself, is getting a video game centred around him and a trailer has been released for it.
Daedalic Entertainment has been developing the new game taking place in J R R Tolkien's Middle Earth and it's called The Lord of The Rings: Gollum.
Since its reveal, we have only seen screenshots of the upcoming title, but the developers have now shared the first trailer, putting us in the...loincloth of Gollum as he sneaks his way through Middle Earth.
In the trailer, which you can view below, we see Gollum's cave-dwelling and some of the horrors happening in and around Mordor.
We know from the devs that the game will mostly rely on stealth mechanics and action, with a narrative which will have multiple different outcomes and situations to give some more context and backstory to everyone's favourite gremlin monster.
While this story about Gollum might not be completely canon, it isn't going to deviate much from established lore on the character and will, according to IGN, simply fit nicely alongside the books and other official material.
Daedalic Entertainment CEO Carsten Fichtelmann explained that it “follows the path of Gollum and what happens before Frodo and his companions find him trailing them in the Mines of Moria…We’ll tell his story until he first shows up. Sometimes they mention some things that happen to Gollum, but nobody knows exactly what happened. That’s our task, explaining what exactly happened there".
Interestingly, it seems like Gollum and Sméagol will be vying for control as you play through the game.
As you may know, Gollum has something of a split personality represented by an inner-war between his two selves; Gollum, the creature he is now, and Sméagol, the Hobbit he used to be.
“When you play Gollum, you’ll play Sméagol at the same time. You need to make some decisions, maybe some decisions that are more or less from Sméagol, and some that are from Gollum. You can decide for yourself what you’d like to see more. When you decide some things, it could be—this is reflected in the mechanics", explains Fichtelmann.
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Even if the game ends up being underwhelming, anything set in the rich, beautiful world created by JRR Tolkien is something to be celebrated... unless it turns out to be something along the lines of the Hobbit Trilogy.
At the moment, Lord of The Rings: Gollum is set to be released in 2021 and we can't wait to set into the sneaky mind of this lovable monster.