This game is extremely lore accurate. Gollum's stay in that prison was very boring.

@chaosordeal294

Жыл бұрын

This game is extremely lore accurate. The writing stinks.

@The3Joker

Жыл бұрын

@@chaosordeal294 It stinks, precious.

@megamoviez

Жыл бұрын

@@chaosordeal294 Hey LOTR is awesome

@magadante

Жыл бұрын

he should be tortured, not us.. 🤔

@humphreybogart2094

Жыл бұрын

Not even prisoners in real prisons would want to play this

I’m genuinely convinced that the character designer got Gollum and Dobby mixed up on several occasions during the design process

@terencewoelke

Жыл бұрын

At least make him look like Gollum 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

@wolfmauler

Жыл бұрын

No, they got GURGI from Black Cauldron mixed in there

@mrcat3493

Жыл бұрын

Even the voice is very Dobby-esque

@MegaElitePredator

Жыл бұрын

Body of Gollum. Head of dobby

@Unclebarry94

Жыл бұрын

We will get another great Tolkien game one day….

Gollum and Redfall are hard at work making Forspoken seem like a masterpiece

@BasicHaddock4

Жыл бұрын

Im dead 😂😂💀💀

@joshd108

Жыл бұрын

DAYUM

@fghjxcvb

Жыл бұрын

@Ayu Akua Aren't people still playing those. Can't be as bad as No Man's Sky.

@CNWhatImSaiyan

Жыл бұрын

@@fghjxcvb Oh man, should we tell ‘em?😅

@fghjxcvb

Жыл бұрын

@@CNWhatImSaiyan Go ahead.

The game so immersive that the actual game will drag you down to madness like Gollum himself 10/10 IGN

@alesksander

Жыл бұрын

100 yrs before our time. We don't understand its genius.10/10 Ground-breaking and revolutionary. Cannot wait for VR version. 😁

@desertgrowndank7256

Жыл бұрын

A new shadow of mordor could've come out and instead we have this

@phousefilms

Жыл бұрын

IGN a few years back:Alien Isolation's AI is too smart. 7.5 out of 10.

@agentmanface6255

Жыл бұрын

Very rare ign w

@dylandoggy248

7 ай бұрын

​@@phousefilmswas just looking at this

This game is like if EA released a new FIFA game where you get to play as the guy who sweeps the parking lot.

@henriksandbacka9442

Жыл бұрын

A Zelda-game where you play as Beedle.

@sotruem8

Жыл бұрын

this is what MJ section in spiderman ps4 feels like

@saimir77

Жыл бұрын

😂

@namelessdreamer7202

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@allthiskorrie3061

Жыл бұрын

@@sotruem8 literally! 😭

You literally have to give Ryan props for taking one for the team on this one.

@hpk008

Жыл бұрын

Ryan just narrated it, it was reviewed by Justin Koreis

Its actually an inmersive experiencie. Gollum was suposed to be tortured and to suffer inmensely in Barad Dur. In this game we get to experience this agonizing pain. This cursed game was forged in the depths of Mordor

They said that in order to fully bring the character of Gollum to life, the entire studio acted like one during this game's production. Truly incredible

The sunk cost must have been astronomical on this considering they didn't give up half way through development.

@razorbackroar

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@LukeYoungBass

Жыл бұрын

I'm surprised they pushed to release it. Marketing budgets can sometimes be more than the development cost itself.

@jimmylittle9393

Жыл бұрын

Where did they spend the money? On catering? They definitely didn't spend it on the game lol

@razmatazz9310

Жыл бұрын

Or the company heads are just _that_ delusional.

@gunigougou4505

Жыл бұрын

The German Government also gives a 25% - 50 tax credit towards costs of video game production. This looks like if Uwe Boll produced a lotr game. Gollum is probably moonlighting as a money launderer. No one asked for this game.

This game is anything BUT precious

@MichaelDoesLife

Жыл бұрын

It’s better than Zelda

@TsukatsukiRio

Жыл бұрын

@@MichaelDoesLife horrible bait

@brandenbarnfield5689

Жыл бұрын

​@Starfield Is Life poor attempt at comedy....

@Dr.SiegMostang

Жыл бұрын

​@@MichaelDoesLife oh little baby didnt have mama's attention so he writes horrible baits just to get attention How cute

@Igor19485

Жыл бұрын

@@MichaelDoesLife You are not funny and your bait is horrible. Be better, do better

-"hey you know what would be a great idea?" -"Make an action rpg set in the lotr universe that centers around the return of Sauron where players can choose a faction, race and journey around middle earth?" -"No, a linear stealth action game as gollum!"

It is an amazing thing that games like this can still be made in this modern era of games.

@rahimds2000

Жыл бұрын

What why not

It’s nice to see the pS2 is still getting game releases

@fader1912

Жыл бұрын

😂😂

@morcjul

Жыл бұрын

Except that the PS2 games would run with 25 fps at least 😂

@HusniArsyah

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@FXHUND-pk3gk

Жыл бұрын

LoL 😂

@adamgadberry8663

Жыл бұрын

My gawd 😂😂😂😂

A Lord of the Rings: Aragorn game would've been awesome, especially if it was set in his life prior to the films as Strider as he wandered across the lands.

@mrmatthewmale5892

Жыл бұрын

Now you're talking, from the time he left Rivendell as a teenager up until meeting the Hobbits in Bree. The learning curve in the game would be immense.

@akl2k7

Жыл бұрын

One reviewer also suggested a Legolas game, which would at least attract the fangirls.

@Oldgames1000

Жыл бұрын

They already did an aragorn game. Its called Aragorns Quest.

@Rorschach003

Жыл бұрын

Coming in summer 2025: Lord of the Rings: Aragorn's Jester

@ben5033

Жыл бұрын

@@akl2k7 Bro Legolas is cool af don't act like he's not hot

A masterpiece of a game. Who wants action, magic and fun? By the way, upcoming prjects by Daedelic include Spiderman: Uncle Ben and Harry Potter: The adventures of Mrs. Norris.

@NickWalcott

Жыл бұрын

Inb4 Spiderman: Aunt May edition comes out

@UnpopularGuy332

Жыл бұрын

A only better idea would be Star Wars: Salacious Crumb,

Incredible to think that there’s such a massive and deep lore and this…this is the best they could come up with.

@jeansimongat

Жыл бұрын

Just like ring of power its is bad

@OriginalDrGonzo

Жыл бұрын

You know exactly how the lore stands up based on this 10 minute review? Impressive. I've read the books. Exactly how much detail do they go in on Gollum's imprisonment again?

@UnpopularGuy332

Жыл бұрын

@@jeansimongat Even Gollum isn't THAT bad.

4/10 from ign is basically a 1/10 anywhere else. Avoid at all cost

@iroquoispliskin8791

Жыл бұрын

It can also be a 10/10. It's IGN, you never know with them. Some of their reviewers are too dumb to appreciate greatness. Edit. I'm not saying this game is great. All I'm saying that you can never trust IGN scores. They gave alien isolation a 6/10 and that game was a masterpiece.

@Oreosmilkshake

Жыл бұрын

​@@iroquoispliskin8791no

@Igor19485

Жыл бұрын

@@iroquoispliskin8791 No

@battlekingad8291

Жыл бұрын

They gave Alien Isolation 5.6/10. So don't trust them either way.

@timohlsson3099

Жыл бұрын

They gave alien isolation and that game is awesome. One of the best horror games

Had no hope for this since the first trailer.

And into this Game he poured his cruelty, his malice and his will to dominate all life

This game really makes you feel like gollum 10/10

@TheLoongsiu

Жыл бұрын

it drives you crazy.

@Hikaimbe

Жыл бұрын

"It has a little something for everyone"

This is like a perfect example of a game nobody asked for, but we still got. Devs said you are gonna play this game.

@drwhite3078

Жыл бұрын

Classic Funny 🤣 but so true

@wolfensniper4012

Жыл бұрын

How does this project ever pass investor enquiries is beyond me

@RamyaGames

Жыл бұрын

Gollum didn't have the potential to be made into a game

@Diceman770

Жыл бұрын

Someone will... Won't be me

@krunoslavkovacec1842

Жыл бұрын

Actually, the concept sounded kinnda cool.

I've literally said this since the game was announced, "Why would anyone wanna play this?"

@phattjohnson

Жыл бұрын

Because games can be (and often are) fun! How could you know a game is gonna be bad based on nothing but the title? Unfortunately however, this one is not fun.

@niallreid7664

Жыл бұрын

​​@@phattjohnson to be fair, who the hell was asking for a Gollum game? Even I, a fan if LOTR, would probably have never picked it up even if it wasn't as bad as it was.

@Amp661

Жыл бұрын

People who have bad taste in games.

@minerman60101

Жыл бұрын

@@niallreid7664 There are ways to execute the concept well; a survival horror Gollum game could've worked

@jackreacher2095

Жыл бұрын

@@minerman60101 even then , there are 100 better game ideas just within that universe

We need a game studio to get this license and make a LOTR immersive open world single player rpg like the witcher or elden ring or skyrim where you can roam around middle-earth and a race you pick and then start at different locations, like if you pick a hobbit you would start at the shire or if you are an elf you would start at the elven woods and go on an epic quest with 4 npc party members (like dragons dogma) while fighting big bosses and searching abandoned dwarven tombs in mountains fighting orca and demons and dragons. This is what we want from LOTR!!!

Remember Shadow of Mordor? Remember how impressive Gollum was in that game?

Golum looks like the unknown offspring of doby from Harry Potter and Toby Mcguire

@jimmac69

Жыл бұрын

@@The_Invisible_Self 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@shredzinhoroman5592

Жыл бұрын

Doby Mcguire!!

@jimmac69

Жыл бұрын

@@shredzinhoroman5592 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Redfall: "No one can touch me as worst game of 2023!" Gollum: "Hold my precious..."

I’ve never in my life seen such an honest brutal ign review such as this one loved😂❤️

Wow this might be the most honest IGN review I’ve ever seen in all my years of gaming

@Mcaark

Жыл бұрын

When not even IGN can rub a turd enough to polish it.

@Hikaimbe

Жыл бұрын

The game deserved a 0

@spendsshanks6050

Жыл бұрын

Even then they’re still wrong. This game is a 2 at most

This game is for all of us who enjoyed the Mary Jane section in the spiderman game. There are dozens of us! Dozens!!

@jaceygaither2581

Жыл бұрын

Yeah🤣 at least MJ missions were like 10 mins max. Instead of Spiderman 2 they should just do Spiderman: MJ where you just sneak around the entire game. In honor of Gollum

@Gloamy17

Жыл бұрын

​@@jaceygaither2581 Yeah and it could follow MJ's slow decent into madness and becoming 'gollum' 🤔 I'd actually play that!

@thekillerprawn

Жыл бұрын

There's 24!

@jimmythedrum446

Жыл бұрын

😂😂

What the hell were they thinking when designing that .... thing... ?

@user-jw8fm8sf7q

Жыл бұрын

What do you mean ? They have right to do anything they want

@bigmyke2008

Жыл бұрын

Money

@gamedrop3262

Жыл бұрын

Yeah how were we supposed to feel in any way bonded to this guy lol

@Amp661

Жыл бұрын

They weren't thinking. Just like the fans of this gsme

@TonyCox1351

Жыл бұрын

@@user-jw8fm8sf7q no whoever designed this game should be jailed

Hats off to you Ryan, most reviews I’ve seen didn’t have the stomach to even finish this game. 😂

How can u give it a 4 though after what u've said in the video? genuinly curious about how it doesnt get an even lower score.

Guess you didn't need the Eye of Sauron to see this coming.

@lynchmaleideal

Жыл бұрын

The Eye of Sauron would have had this destroyed had it known it was coming

Honestly, the only even slightly inspired idea from this game was the idea to make a combative internal conversation battle system out of the inner conflicts between Sméagol & Gollum; and even then they managed to half-bake one of the few compelling ideas they had.

This game really had some potential. They could have made some cool Styx-like staff.

This looks like a game that would have been released around the same time as the trilogy of movies.

Should have made this game more like a Splinter Cell/Thief style game, escaping from Sauron’s forces and tracking the fellowship. They could have even had the final fight with Frodo on Mount Doom end with an alternate ending, what would happen if Gollum successfully got the ring from him and didn’t fall into the fire? What a missed opportunity.

@jamesgravil9162

Жыл бұрын

"what would happen if Gollum successfully got the ring from him and didn’t fall into the fire? " The Nazgul would have swept down and taken it from him. And then probably pushed Gollum into the fire anyway.

@RiverKinn

Жыл бұрын

@@jamesgravil9162 According to the lore, yeah certainly. But in a video game that contains a fun non-canon alternate ending, who knows?

@jamesgravil9162

Жыл бұрын

@@RiverKinn Perhaps he gets to become Lord Smeagol, ruler of Middle-Earth, and eat fish every day like he always wanted.

@Wobble2007

Жыл бұрын

Would have been way more interesting to make the game about Smeagle's early life and change into Gollum, could have been about his finding the ring, fighting its influence and so on, would have been way more interesting imo.

@0kills

Жыл бұрын

Yeah. Or an alternative ending where gollum becomes really strong and ends up killing most of the original protagonists.

Really makes it feel like you’re Gollum.

@Bpackard12

Жыл бұрын

lol🤣

@moondawwg

Жыл бұрын

Miserable and like you're losing your mind.

8:43 Impressive attention to detail That it boys, that's the Review - the marketing team

This is one of the better IGN reviews, you really captured how baffling a release especially with the intro, makes me happy to hear an IGN video that feels passionate and sincere

To think we could've had a current gen entry in the Shadow of War series

@blizzardgaming7070

Жыл бұрын

They even patented the nemesis system shortly before announcing this travesty.

@thecarrots5

Жыл бұрын

@@blizzardgaming7070 The patent was filed in 2015, approved in 2021.

@dajoker8998

Жыл бұрын

Shadow of bore

@jdick91

Жыл бұрын

Ah, yes. Because even if it's an entirely different game from an entirely different studio about an entirely different story and character, everyone knows you can only work on one LOTR game at a time. As silly as it seems, the only reason this game got made is because the director of Daedalic Entertainment defeated the director of Monolith Productions after challenging him to a best of 3 rock, paper, scissors showdown in front of a council comprised of the descendants of JRR Tolkien himself, thus winning the right to make Gollum. Luckily for us, Monolith spent all the time they weren't allowed to be working on a SoW sequel developing one of the most advanced RPS (rock, paper, scissors) training facilities in the world to ensure nothing like this happens ever again.

@ForestGreenSharpie

Жыл бұрын

the creators of SOW/SOM said that we aren't getting another sequel a bit after SOW came out

From Return of the King, The Third Age and Battle for middle earth games which are some of my favorite childhood games to this 🤣. How far we have gone backwards

imagine if Hogwart's legacy made you play as Dobby

Since this game was announced didn't understood why developers having an amazing world and characters decided to make a Gollum based game 💀

@madhatten00

Жыл бұрын

Copyrights. They probably only got the rights to gollum.

@beeziebubs2756

Жыл бұрын

Out of all the characters between LOTR and The Hobbit… just… Gollum? He was the standout, most interesting character they could have possibly thought to make a game about?

@gatoblanco5756

Жыл бұрын

A gollum game could’ve been fun, it’s not that it’s gollum it’s just a shitty game

@UnpopularGuy332

Жыл бұрын

Not the idea, but the execution. Gollum could work as some sort of challenging stealth horror game where one bad mistake could punish you. This game is neither challenging or scary. It's just 'middle earth tasks featuring gollum'.

@vondamn9943

9 ай бұрын

The idea is cool af, the execution....

Those broken stealth enemy AI problems still exist today in a bunch of triple A games.

@phattjohnson

Жыл бұрын

It's not that they're broken, just that they're one-dimensional with the only ability being to throw a rock (or choke an orc)

@Gloamy17

Жыл бұрын

Which ones?

@eleternauta2640

Жыл бұрын

Now i'm scared for the new Metal Gear 3make

@erroldtumaque3430

Жыл бұрын

Fr, we got AI that can write essays, generate art and sing songs but can't detect me 5 feet away in a video game

@anthonyjenkins2001

Жыл бұрын

@@erroldtumaque3430 so true 😁😁😂

Forspoken suddenly became a classic game because of this.

“He’s the more interesting character” who in the right mind said that about gollum and actually wanted to play as him lol

The Game of THAT Year

@Hikaimbe

Жыл бұрын

"The year was 1786"

IGN being very generous as usual

Someone played one of the Shadow games that had a small section where you played as Gollum, thought this would be GREAT as a full game. They were wrong.

A gollum game should have just be a schizophrenia simulator of experiencing what it’s like to be a crazy person with multiple personalities having constant hallucinations and going mad for a ring

@UnorthodoxJedi

Жыл бұрын

So like Hellblade senuas sacrifice?

Lets be honest we all knew this will happen. It was basically clear since the day they announced it and was evident ever since ty started showing the game.

Man even a few trailers in the jank/unfinished state was strong with this one. This felt like a half baked indie title rescued from vapourware territory by some “closers” from big vendors/other devs, sad to see that was indeed the case. 😢

A Lord of the Rings game that is based off Gandalf, Aragorn, or Sauron would all be great ideas. It would be interesting for Sauron if his game started with his service to Morgoth and ending with Isildur cutting off the One Ring.

@Thomas-te2lg

8 ай бұрын

Already was an Aragon game for DS, Wii, PS2, PSP and PS3.

This is like playing Assasins Creed but the entire game you can only play as Desmond

Could've made a great DLC stealth game using environment to subdue enemies. Just 'cause Gollum can't fight doesn't mean he hasn't killed or tried to kill people in LotR. And he's definitely more wicked and tricksy than most orcs.

@brianlaudrupchannel

Жыл бұрын

Or just not bothered

@ericfelds6291

Жыл бұрын

It could not have, this was an absolutely dead on arrival idea

Considering the real scale for games with IGN is 4-10, a 4 is essentially the same as a 1/10. This is not a game that should be purchased or played by anyone.

5:42 Was that text of getting caught in medieval comic sans.

Isn't the stealth system the same as the A Plague Tale?

Goddamn. You’ve gotta feel it for anyone that put hours of their life into making this. Iseesya!

Redfall's ancestor

@Dean-SLC

Жыл бұрын

Redfall is better than this. Trust me. That's how bad gollum is.

@swenpai

Жыл бұрын

At least visually Redfall looked nice

@rayyanabdulwajid7681

Жыл бұрын

​@@swenpai redfall is another visual crap

This would be an amazing game... if it had come out on the Nintendo DS in 2006

Watching footage of this game feels like I’m watching one of those promotional Burger King games, like “Sneak King”.

Lol IGN did this game a solid by giving it even a 4. 0.5/10 at best.

@Spyciality

Жыл бұрын

Fr is this is a 4 I feel like anything lower than 2 isn’t a game and more of a child’s comic book drawing

@enderzebak2863

Жыл бұрын

@@Spyciality have you played it?

@Spyciality

Жыл бұрын

@@enderzebak2863 played a bit of it with a friend and watched a playthrough of the rest

Right at the beginning he says "my question is: Who would want to play this??" 🤣🤣

Saw a Twitch stream sponsored by the game. The streamer literally looked at a clock saying "how much longer?" XD

Out of literally every character in the franchise, they chose the one that no one would actually enjoy to play

Next on their project list is an Aliens game where you play as Burke.

@High_Bread

Жыл бұрын

U play as just the egg

@niallreid7664

Жыл бұрын

​@@High_Bread not even the facehugger. Just the egg.

@High_Bread

Жыл бұрын

@@niallreid7664 exactly, motionless lol

How did it get four? What were the four marks for?

"This game really makes you FEEL like Gollum" ~Justin Koreis

Can’t wait to play as Scabbers in wizarding worlds: Peter pettigrew the game

If even ign gives it 4/10, you know it is bad

Thank you Ryan for not only being willing to spread the word about a game to avoid but for doing it AS LOUDLY AS POSSIBLE SO THAT YOU ARE SURE WE HEARD YOU!

That fact that its trailer made in to the Game Awards is unbelievable, if Geoff knew it wouldn’t be there, much less on a sony channel playlist.

If anyone wishes for a stealth game where you play a small goblinoid that's actually functional, check out Styx Master of Shadows and Styx Shards of Darkness.

@RadicalRickEntertainment

Жыл бұрын

yes!!!

@diollinebranderson6553

Жыл бұрын

Yea Sharts of Darkness

Spot on review 👍

Game Gollum: having a full on moral dilemma war in the soul wrestle with conscience over eating a beetle. Meanwhile canon Gollum watching, casually chowing down on some tasty infants he picked up from the local nursery

a true leap in the world of gaming 10/10

Pick a choice : "kill Orc" or "KEEP PANICKING" 😂😂

Redfall is the worst game of 2023 Gollum: Hold my precious

It's cool but is there gonna be any connection with any other lotr games like shadow of war. If it doesn't have that I'd say missed opportunity there. It looks like Styx the orc game

This game is like making a Star Wars game and you get to play as Jabba the hut the whole game.

I’m a fan of lord of rings but Gollum having his own game was a terrible idea what suit approved this in the meeting

Frodo: ''what do you think, Smeagol?'' Smeagol: ''Gollum''

It's 10euro new in my local game store. Is it even worth that?

Next the studio is going to make a game where you fill out all the paperwork after Rainbow Six Siege levels that have finished.

It's a shame they didn't get this right. It could have been amazing. Could have been.

@guyeffect8298

Жыл бұрын

No it’s a boring concept

@nabilidr9011

Жыл бұрын

nah man, literally no one wanna play games about gollum

@blokin5039

Жыл бұрын

@@nabilidr9011 Wrong you know nothing about gaming.

@nabilidr9011

Жыл бұрын

@@blokin5039 yea sure bro, just see the sales and player online number from this game

@emllik2155

Жыл бұрын

​@@blokin5039 .. take a look at the comments of any video about this game, everyones saying no one asked for it. It is very niche

Awesome review 😂 I feel your frustration man 😂

@tygariont7594

Жыл бұрын

Genuinely feel bad for him, you could see he was soo bored and frustrated yet he had to finish the entire game to review it 😂

Who would have thought playing as gollum would have just been awful?! Oh everyone thought that except the creators??

ill just put another 85 hours into shadow of mordor...

This game is about as exciting as taking a dive into the lava of mount doom!

@cyberducc

Жыл бұрын

🤔 idk man that sounds fun to me

@Spyciality

Жыл бұрын

Even the suspense from that would leave me more entertained

The fact that so much was possible with the lord of the rings license… And they come up with this😂

Is there a side mission where you devour babies like in the book?

@JamesTheDominator

Жыл бұрын

He’s a “hero” according to the devs

@aussieknuckles

Жыл бұрын

​@@JamesTheDominator ahh yes the modern phenomenon of making the Villain appear as a Hero.... Wait.... That happened all through history too!

Truly a masterpiece, Tolkien would be proud.

@blackkaiser6731

10 ай бұрын

No, this is the worst game 0/10

Thank you. You saved me from wasting $60 and ruining my kid’s Christmas!

Thanks for the review. Those cuts between clips are weird though.

Lead developer: *shows contract* We got the rights to do a Lord of The Rings video game! Random designer: Awesome! We can't wait to take a take a deep dive into Fellowshi-- Lead developer: It's gonna be a Gollum solo game. Random designer: *Looks down at the contract and up again* ....What?

@rivertonrock

Жыл бұрын

A game centered around Gollum could be really cool! Just not this game.

@TheSpaceJockey91

Жыл бұрын

@@rivertonrock True.

Gollum grew a lot of hair since the last time we saw him

this feels like a mini game of a bigger game

They could have done a shadow of gollum game and had a sick skill tree and sneaky stealth orientated combat like when you poison the grog in the other shadow of games