So, why not just stop there and give Gollum a zero-star or half-a-star review? Well, that’s not fair to the game, either. After the 11th crash, we deemed that the technical state of The Lord of the Rings: Gollum on PS5 was too dire for us to keep playing for review.

However, our experience was much too unstable to get a true feel for how this game will play post-release. We found all of those elements initially intriguing, if a bit antiquated. In the little time we did end up spending with The Lord of the Rings: Gollum prelaunch, we did see the basics of the game’s story, platforming, stealth, choice system, and puzzles. Why we didn’t review The Lord of the Rings: Gollum Instead, we want to paint a clear picture of what shape the game was in less than 24 hours ago, as well as provide a sense of how many of those issues you can expect after its day one patch. So this is not a proper review of The Lord of the Rings: Gollum. It quickly became apparent that it would be difficult to critique this game properly. On top of that, we experienced many other bugs, like objectives not triggering, losing the ability to move, and Gollum getting stuck in the floor for a second upon respawning. And again.ĭuring our first two hours with The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, the PS5 version of the game crashed 11 times. We chalked it up to a normal incident, restarted the game, and kept on playing. That certainly struck us as odd, but prelaunch builds of games do crash sometimes. We could load up the game just fine and watch the game’s intro, but within five minutes of playing, the game crashed. Simply put, the PS5 version we tested was too broken to fairly critique.Īfter downloading the PS5 code we received from a PR representative for Nacon, we booted up the game, interested to see Daedelic’s interpretations of Gollum’s tragic story.

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