Gollum Will get Could Launch Date

The Lord of the Rings: Gollum will launch on PlayStation 5, PS4, Xbox Collection X|S, Xbox One, and PC on Could 25, with the Nintendo Change model scheduled for someday later this yr.

The gameplay will characteristic a mix of stealth and motion as Gollum sneaks round Center-earth. The sport can even have gamers making decisions that align with both the character’s darker aspect — Gollum — or his gentler half often known as Sméagol. The builders have mentioned the sport is taking inspiration straight from J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, fairly than Peter Jackson’s movie diversifications of the books.

The Lord of the Rings: Gollum was first introduced again in 2019 for a 2021 launch date. The unique reveal mentioned the sport would discover occasions between Gollum’s discovery of the One Ring and the start of the occasions seen in in The Lord of the Rings.

The sport has confronted a number of delays en path to its new Could launch date. IGN noticed the sport final yr, and we weren’t tremendous impressed with the hands-off presentation, saying we have been, “left with the underwhelming impression of a easy sport that will have landed higher within the period when Peter Jackson’s trilogy was nonetheless in cinemas than it can in 2022.”

Gollum’s launch date comes at a packed time for AAA releases, with Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Avenue Fighter 6, Diablo IV, and Last Fantasy XVI all coming within the surrounding weeks. The sport launch is simply a part of what looks like an enormous The Lord of the Rings renaissance, with Amazon Prime’s Rings of Energy, new films on the way in which, and, after all, the unimaginable LEGO Rivendell set.

Logan Plant is a contract author for IGN masking online game and leisure information. He has over six years of expertise within the gaming business with bylines at IGN, Nintendo Wire, Change Participant Journal, and Lifewire. Discover him on Twitter @LoganJPlant.