lizardsfromspace:

lizardsfromspace:

The Gollum game is such an incredible throwback. Back in the PS2 era that type of buggy movie tie-in game was a dime a dozen & no one would’ve even noticed but by virtue of coming out in 2023, the last of its breed, it’s a king, beheld with quiet horror by all. It crashes every five minutes even on the best hardware and when apologizing for its instability the devs misspelled their own game’s name

“It looks like a PS2 game” is usually an inane insult and I guess it is if used for graphics here but in every other way? Yes, it’s exactly like something that went right into the budget racks in 2004. It captures the weird frenzy of LotR releases during the trilogy so perfectly, it’s like those ones that had the book license but not the movie one or one of the weirder spin-offs EA jammed out to exploit the license