The Lord of the Rings: Gollum game in development for next-generation consoles (update)

Source: Warner Bros.

Updated Jan 7, 2022: The Lord of the Rings: Gollum has been confirmed for Xbox Series X and PlayStation v.

According to a mail service by the Hollywood Reporter, Daedalic Entertainment is making a The Lord of the Ring game. However, it's not your standard fare, because it's called "The Lord of the Rings: Gollum." You'll be able to take command of the troubled character between the years he plant the I Ring and before the starting time of The Lord of the Rings novels and films.

When asked most The Lords of the Rings: Gollum, Daedalic Entertainment'due south co-founder Carsten Fichtelmann said the following.

You already have that big conflict in the grapheme, two voices talking to you continuously, which ways there is a good reason there are decisions to make in the game: the Smeagol decisions or the Gollum determination. We have the story that we all know from the book, but everything that happens to him before he appears in the volume are the main things we will run across in our game. We volition tell the story before he first appears in the books.

At present comes the bad news. You'll have to look until 2022 to play it. Luckily, it's coming to "PC and all relevant panel platforms at the time." This means that we'll probable see it on Xbox "Scarlett" and "Anaconda." Scarlett is positioned to be Microsoft's entry-level console, while Anaconda is the successor to the powerful Xbox One 10.

The Hollywood Reporter said that at that place were plans for fifty-fifty more games down the line, simply what that may entail is unclear at this point. Manifestly, the 2022 release date for The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is when Amazon'south The Lord of the Rings evidence volition launch, too.

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