The paths are rigidly defined, and often involve blind jumps or best guesses at what the next intended handle is. Having experienced a modern Assassin's Creed or Tomb Raider game, here it feels far too easy to jump toward the correct point and fall to your death because you drifted to one side, or missed the part of the ledge that has the white line that establishes exactly where you can grab.

Spacious rooms with handles to climb, walls to run, and leaps to take bring a faster pace of action, but the loose and floaty way Gollum moves and imprecise controls make it feel like something from the PlayStation 2 era. The platforming phases are more compelling, but still poorly designed. Trying to get anywhere involves too little speed, too much waiting, and an unfortunate amount of hearing Gollum choking on his own breath. It could be fun to run around with Gollum, thanks to his surprising sprint speed, but he has a stamina meter that depletes in just a few seconds and takes far longer to replenish. It never feels like there’s any point to it, just busywork. There’s always some conceptually different scenario, like crawling through small openings to detonate explosives, but functionally it’s a series of marches across the same areas over and over again. There’s the chores phase, in which Gollum goes from one waypoint to another to complete some menial task. Serkis also admitted that he used to “go on all fours offset when we were filming Lord of the Rings” to get into character as Gollum, calling it a “pretty method.There are generally three phases to any level, and they range from uninteresting to just plain bad. Serkis said, “My only hope, now, is that I have done it justice and that the listening experience conveys the power and beauty of J.R.R.

The funds raised will be distributed equally between NHS Charities Together and Best Beginnings, a children’s organization for whom Serkis is an ambassador. The actor finished the book in just under 11 hours, and he was watched by almost 650,000 people. Tolkien book The Hobbit in one sitting as part of a charity readathon.

Serkis raised £280,000 last year during the first coronavirus shutdown by reading the whole J.R.R. On September 16, a new audiobook version of the classic trilogy will be released, after Serkis’ recent readathon of The Hobbit.

Andy Serkis, well known for his role as Gollum and immortalizing the phrase “My Precious” in The Lord of the Rings, is scheduled to narrate a new audiobook series based on J.R.R.

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