One of the best things about video games is how they allow us to inhabit another world, another life. They let us walk in another person’s shoes and experience existence from a new perspective. On paper, stepping into Middle-earth should be thrilling, but Lord of the Rings: Gollum has it all wrong.
Ask anyone about which character they’d like to play as in a Lord of the Rings game and most of them would likely give you a different answer. Out of those answers, I’d bet none of them would be, ‘I want to play as that malnourished goblin fella who eats rotten fish and talks to himself. You know, that slimy git who’s named after the sound of a cough.’ No.
