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The Lord of the Rings: Gollum
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The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is a story-driven action adventure. Take on a perilous journey as Gollum, chasing the only thing that is precious to him. Gollum is skillful and cunning, but also torn by his split personality. One mind, two egos – you decide!
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GENRES:
- Action, RPG
DEVELOPER(S):
- Daedalic Entertainment
PUBLISHER(S):
- Nacon
SERIES/FRANCHISE:
- The Lord of the Rings
GAME MODES:
- Single player
GAME ENGINE:
- Unreal Engine 4
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Ratings & Reviews
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Critic Reviews
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Broken beyond belief but also a fundamentally bad idea for a video game, with inanely shallow and repetitive gameplay – Gollum is not only the worst mainstream game of the year but of the last two generations.
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is a commendable game for Daedalic’s effort to tell a totally original story in Middle-earth mixing stealth mechanics and platforming, but it makes water on almost all sides: imprecise controls, terrible AI, insipid narrative, outdated level design and graphics from another generation.
A derivative, uninteresting and fundamentally broken stealth action adventure that fails to capture anything interesting about Tolkien’s fiction.
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3DNews | Алексей Лихачев | 2 / 10 | 05-27-2023 | Gollum might be the worst release of 2023 so far. Why Daedalic agreed to do this and didn’t cancel it is a mystery. | Read review |
ACG | Jeremy Penter | Not Recommended | 05-25-2023 | A mess from start to finish. This is truly tators. | Read review |
BaziCenter | Farzan Mihanzadeh | 3 / 10 | 06-11-2023 | The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is so broken on every level that just proves that having enough material and a rich universe to work with doesn’t necessarily guarantee a good outcome if you don’t know how to make a video game. | Read review |
But Why Tho? | Kyle Foley | 5 / 10 | 05-25-2023 | The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is a love letter to a flawed character that shares some flaws of its own. The care and love of Tolkien lore are quite obvious, but it doesn’t always mesh well with the disappointing mechanics and less-than-stellar gameplay. | Read review |
CGMagazine | Philip Watson | 5 / 10 | 05-25-2023 | The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is a great idea, but a frustrating experience. Non-Tolkien fans should not play this game, and none but the most hardened fans should. | Read review |
Checkpoint Gaming | Bree Maybe | 2 / 10 | 05-26-2023 | The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is a buggy mess, even disregarding the constant crashes. Not only that, but it is a game void of any personality, originality, or bravery. It attempts nothing new and falls back on tropes that started falling out of style years ago, while somehow still managing to replicate them poorly. It disappoints me not just as a fan of the Lord of the Rings, but also as a fan of video games in general. | Read review |
Chicas Gamers | Sonia Hilari | Not Recommended | 06-01-2023 | It is an action-adventure game that has failed to take advantage of the lore of The Lord of the Rings. It has multiple glitches that make it seem like it’s not a game of this generation | Read review |
COGconnected | Mark Steighner | 35 / 100 | 05-29-2023 | The Lord of the Rings: Gollum tries to be a respectful homage to Tolkien’s masterpiece. Unfortunately, it’s expressed through buggy, unpolished, and not very interesting or enjoyable gameplay. Gollum is a fascinating and complex character, but makes a poor protagonist for an action game. Only ravenous fans of Tolkien will want to come near this game, and then only if they have a very high tolerance for crashes, bugs, and disappointment. | Read review |
Cubed3 | Sandy Kirchner-Wilson | 3 / 10 | 06-06-2023 | Do not buy this game and avoid the extra DLC at all costs. | Read review |
Digital Trends | Giovanni Colantonio | 1 / 5 stars | 05-26-2023 | Perhaps it’s thematically fitting that the game itself is such an oddball outlier that’s been met with cruelty and misunderstanding since its announcement. There’s poetry to that, but it didn’t make my 11-hour playthrough any more enjoyable. | Read review |
Digitally Downloaded | Matt Sainsbury | 2.5 / 5 stars | 05-26-2023 | This is a problem across the entire games industry and far too much of the work it produces. What makes Gollum stand out is that most other developers and publishers then use their creative teams to try and hide the crass cynicism and capitalism. Daedalic didn’t bother with Gollum. This game represents the games industry with its mask off. | Read review |
Eurogamer | Christian Donlan | Not Recommended | 05-25-2023 | A strong sense of character is let down by poor controls, fiddly implementation, and bugs. | Read review |
Everyeye.it | Lorenzo Mango | 5.5 / 10 | 05-25-2023 | We were very sorry not to give at least enough to The Lord of the Rings: Gollum. But the limits are too many. The portion of unpublished history is not up to Tolkien’s saga and the playful phases are inaccurate and obsolete. | Read review |
Expansive | Sally Willington | 2 / 10 | 05-28-2023 | The Lord of the Rings: Gollum had a rough start prior to launch but despite its followup patches, it’s still not a good game. It plays with some interesting concepts but they are so often overshadowed by its poor controls, loose movement, and overly slow story where everyone feels like a bit part except the titular lead. There is a certain charm that ever so often seeps through, to make it a partly enjoyable platforming and even stealth experience, but just as it builds any kind of momentum the game swiftly reminds you of its drawbacks and frustrations. | Read review |
Game Informer | Matt Miller | 3.5 / 10 | 05-26-2023 | I constantly struggled against the controls, camera, and objectives as they were presented. And nothing about the story or characters of The Lord of the Rings: Gollum offers reason to push past the frustration. As a longtime fan of Tolkien’s fiction, it’s possible that I liked the game even less for the way it seemed to misuse the source material. It’s hard to have a more damning indictment than to say that this Gollum game isn’t for fans of The Lord of the Rings, but here we are. | Read review |
Gameblog | Camille Allard | 4 / 10 | 05-25-2023 | The game is not very good and unfortunately quite boring. We would have liked something more epic on a saga like the Lord of the Rings. It’s a pity, especially since the game is full of bugs as it is. | Read review |
Gamefa | Mohammad Reza Nowroozi | 1 / 10 | 06-06-2023 | The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is undoubtedly one of the worst games this industry has ever seen. From gameplay to visuals, it’s a complete mess. There is no reason on god’s green earth to experience this game. So don’t bother! | Read review |
GameGrin | Bennett Perry | 3 / 10 | 06-13-2023 | The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is a poorly designed, bug-ridden, untested game that’s only redeeming quality doesn’t matter in the whole picture. | Read review |
GamePro | Dennis Michel | 60 / 100 | 05-25-2023 | The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is often a nasty fried potato, even for great Lord of the Rings fans. | Read review |
Gamer Escape | Justin Mercer | 4 / 10 | 05-25-2023 | Lord of the Rings: Gollum struggles under its own weight from the word go. Any benefit from a grimmer, more unvarnished look at the characters of Middle-earth from an atypical perspective is immediately undercut by a bevy of technical issues, clunky controls, unexciting game design, and stilted presentation at constant odds with the player. | Read review |
Gamerheadquarters | Jason Stettner | 1 / 10 | 06-01-2023 | The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is the worst game I’ve ever played, it barely functions and when it does it’s just mundanely boring. | Read review |
Gamers Heroes | Johnny Hurricane | 4 / 10 | 05-30-2023 | It is good to know that we already know the worst game of the year in May. Do yourself a favor and forget about The Lord of the Rings: Gollum – it is anything but precious. | Read review |
Gamersky | 心灵奇兵 | 4 / 10 | 05-25-2023 | If Lord of the Rings: Gollum were a short story or a low-budget film, it might be worth a look for Lord of the Rings fans. As a game, however, with over a dozen hours of gameplay, it is obviously a physically painful torment. | Read review |
GAMES.CH | Steffen Haubner | 60 / 100 | 05-25-2023 | It’s heartbreaking because the project is courageous and good approaches are recognizable. However, the technical problems are hard to ignore, as is the stale gameplay. Still, we think the game is worth a look for fans of the franchise, if only because of the story. | Read review |
GameSpot | Sam Pape | 2 / 10 | 05-25-2023 | Daedalic’s long-delayed Tolkienian adventure is just as unlikeable and tragic as its namesake protagonist. | Read review |
GamesRadar+ | Alex Avard | 2 / 5 stars | 05-25-2023 | Much like its title character, The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is compromised, inelegant, and a bit of an eyesore. To everyone except the most fervent of Tolkienites; you shall pass. | Read review |
GamingBolt | Chris Hinton | 5 / 10 | 05-25-2023 | Despite being presented as a lonely creature, Gollum gets more attention than he might deserve in The Lord of the Rings: Gollum. With average by-the-books platforming and stealth gameplay, there actually is a thoughtful and engaging story at the heart of Gollum. It’s up to fans of the genre to decide whether time spent on ordinary gameplay is worth experiencing Gollum’s history. | Read review |
GamingTrend | David Burdette | 70 / 100 | 05-25-2023 | Just like Gollum, I’m a bit split. The Lord of the Rings: Gollum features a great story that adds to the lore, along with a terrific stealth system, but it misses the mark in other areas. A finicky and redundant platforming system, mixed with a dialogue system that lacks bite makes for a combination that drags the rest down. Gollum is always so close to The Ring, but ever so far. | Read review |
Generación Xbox | Luis Falcón | 3.8 / 10 | 05-30-2023 | I was looking forward to, at least, a delivery that met the minimum quality of this generation, even knowing that Gollum was not going to offer us the adrenaline that we can get from other characters mentioned above, for example. But it has not been so, The Lord of the Rings: Gollum needs a lot of work if it wants to position itself as a decent delivery. | Read review |
God is a Geek | Chris White | 5 / 10 | 05-25-2023 | The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is littered with technical and gameplay issues that dampen the fact that there’s a great story at its heart. | Read review |
GRYOnline.pl | Dariusz Matusiak | 5.5 / 10 | 05-25-2023 | The Lord of the Rings: Gollum has the features of a solid „middle of the road” game. Unfortunately, that’s not the case here. The game is tiring, and I really wish this Gollum had a chance to return – with all his dialog lines, sarcasm, and the Smeagol persona – in a different, much better game. | Read review |
Guardian | Nic Reuben | 1 / 5 stars | 05-25-2023 | A derivative, uninteresting and fundamentally broken stealth action adventure that fails to capture anything interesting about Tolkien’s fiction | Read review |
Hardcore Gamer | Kevin Dunsmore | 2 / 5 stars | 05-25-2023 | The Lord of the Rings: Gollum could have ushered in a new era of The Lord of the Rings-based games. One that had the daring to fill in Tolkien’s gaps, but still showed respect for the source material. The Lord of the Rings: Gollum isn’t that game. While the story is compelling with a great performance from Smeagol/Gollum, the remainder of the game is a woeful mess. While Daedalic’s vision for Middle-earth is filled with artistic beauty, it’s altogether let down by a terrible technical presentation that’s far behind today’s standards. Ultimately, though, it’s the lack of polish and jankiness that is its undoing. From the myriad gameplay issues that bog down the simple mechanics to the mind-numbing crashes capable of hampering progression, there is little about The Lord of the Rings: Gollum that’s polished or enjoyable. The Lord of the Rings: Gollum crafts a compelling story around Gollum and Smeagol, but it fails to craft a polished, stable or enjoyable gameplay experience. Unfortunately, The Lord of the Rings: Gollum isn’t the Precious we’ve been searching for. | Read review |
Hey Poor Player | James Davies | 1 / 5 stars | 05-30-2023 | Utterly shambolic in almost every way, The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is an abject failure as a stealth and traversal game, continuously tripping over itself with technical incompetence to such an extent it’s virtually impossible to recommend. Featuring monotonous climbing and sneaking mechanics, cheap deaths from heights akin to a paddling pool, a boring structure, plain and uninteresting characters, a host of technical blemishes, mostly-poor visuals, a woodpecker-quality soundtrack, and an overall dismal and trying experience, The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is absolutely atrocious. Much like its protagonist, it’s a cursed product that should be cast into the smoldering fires of Mount Doom. | Read review |
Hobby Consolas | Javier Escribano | 55 / 100 | 05-25-2023 | The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is a commendable game for Daedalic’s effort to tell a totally original story in Middle-earth mixing stealth mechanics and platforming, but it makes water on almost all sides: imprecise controls, terrible AI, insipid narrative, outdated level design and graphics from another generation. | Read review |
IGN | Justin Koreis | 4 / 10 | 05-25-2023 | The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is filled with dull stealth, bad platforming, and a pointless story, and does little to justify why anyone should take the time to play it. | Read review |
IGN Italy | Angelo Bianco | 5.5 / 10 | 05-25-2023 | Plagued by several problems and with gameplay far from modern standards, The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is not the third-person adventure that we would have expected from Daedalic Entertainment. Except for the good characterization of the main character and for an overall appreciable plot, the new game of the German software house fails to be convincing and represents a wasted opportunity to offer the right amount of entertainment to all Tolkien fans who have a good passion for video games. | Read review |
IGN Spain | David Oña | 4 / 10 | 05-25-2023 | The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is a stealth, action and platform adventure that has some interesting ideas, but lacks cooking. A video game of classic structure whose gaps are evident both in the narrative, as in the playable, technical and aesthetic. | Read review |
INDIANTVCZ | Barbora Hykšová | 5 / 10 | 05-27-2023 | Even though we are big Lord of the Rings fans, and we were afraid to start the game based on the preliminary negative feedback, it was a pleasant surprise. We enjoyed the story so much that I hope to play Gollum’s Adventures again. If only to explore the different decisions and endings. | Read review |
Kotaku | Levi Winslow | Not Recommended | 07-05-2023 | That’s the real problem with Gollum: It’s a game of contradictions. It wants to be a precision platformer, but the platforming is imprecise and unpredictable. It wants to be a stealth game, but the sneaky mechanics are uninspired and enemy AI is too dumb to make it challenging. It wants to be an action game, but Gollum doesn’t have the strength to engage in any real action. And on top of these contradictions is the crushing weight of bugs that break the game. There’s potential tucked deep within the bones of Daedalic Entertainment’s game, but The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is giving bad early-aughts 3D platformer in the worst way imaginable, putting it in the running for 2023’s worst game. | Read review |
LevelUp | Víctor Rosas | 2 / 10 | 05-31-2023 | The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is nothing more than a failed project that should have been cancelled, but since it is a lucrative IP, it was released to the market to deceive the unwary and that, gentlemen, is a scam that should not be be tolerated in this industry. | Read review |
Metro GameCentral | GameCentral | 1 / 10 | 05-26-2023 | Broken beyond belief but also a fundamentally bad idea for a video game, with inanely shallow and repetitive gameplay | Read review |
New Game Network | Alex Varankou | 45 / 100 | 06-07-2023 | The Lord of the Rings: Gollum offers a bleak and lackluster adaptation of Middle-earth, with one of its more divisive characters in the spotlight. Whatever potential the game had is buried under dull, generic gameplay, a variety of technical issues, and low quality visuals. | Read review |
Niche Gamer | Fingal Belmont | 1 / 10 | 06-08-2023 | If the team behind The Lord of the Rings: Gollum manages to get it in an acceptable state, the foundation of this game is still hopelessly rotten at its core. No amount of polish can undo the miscalculated story and game design. Daedalic would effectively have to restart the entire development process and start over to salvage it. | Read review |
NoobFeed | Jay Claassen | 15 / 100 | 05-30-2023 | The Lord of the Rings: Gollum had nearly endless potential to be great but it instead became the prime example of why beta testing a game before release is important. With issues like stuttering or momentary lag spikes all pointing to a severe lack of optimization, this game was doomed to be a flop from the start. The only hope for this game now is not just a quick patch but a massive overhaul to fix its biggest issues. | Read review |
PC Gamer | Dominic Tarason | 64 / 100 | 05-25-2023 | For all its many flaws, LOTR: Gollum is an oft-beautiful and oddly endearing adventure. | Read review |
PCGamesN | Anna Koselke | 3 / 10 | 05-25-2023 | The Lord of the Rings: Gollum fails to live up to both the Tolkien name and its own potential. From exhausting, repetitive gameplay to a poorly constructed narrative, this is a piece of Middle-earth you should never explore. | Read review |
PlayStation Universe | Timothy Nunes | 4.5 / 10 | 05-29-2023 | Much like the namesake character himself, The Lord of The Rings: Gollum couldn’t be saved from what it became. Frustrating platforming coupled with boring gameplay and cheap ways to die make any experience hard to play. Unfortunately, the intriguing setting and lore exploration can’t come close to overshadowing the game’s fundamental issues. | Read review |
PowerUp! | Jam Walker | 2 / 10 | 05-25-2023 | The Lord of The Rings | Read review |
Press Start | Steven Impson | 3 / 10 | 05-25-2023 | I struggle to think of a positive experience over the thirteen-odd hours I spent playing this game. Gollum is uninspired and dated and The Lord of the Rings fans deserve better than this. | Read review |
PSX Brasil | Paulo Roberto Montanaro | 45 / 100 | 05-25-2023 | The Lord of the Rings: Gollum manages to appropriate the best features of one of the best and most complex characters created within an unquestioned mythology, but a limited aesthetic representation of the world surrounding it and sloppy movement systems prevent the the game from being as precious as it should be. | Read review |
Push Square | Aaron Bayne | 2 / 10 | 05-25-2023 | The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is a broken mess of a game. There are barely any redeeming qualities to be found amidst what can only be described as a massive missed opportunity. There is some serious potential in a single-player linear Lord of the Rings experience like this, but with outrageously dated level design, clunky controls, a severe lack of polish, muddy and unimpressive graphics, and a dull story, Gollum completely misses the mark. As massive fans of the books, films, and games, it’s sad to see that there is nothing precious about this experience. | Read review |
Rock, Paper, Shotgun | Rachel Watts | Not Recommended | 05-25-2023 | It’s unfortunate, but The Lord Of The Rings: Gollum fails to expand the world of Middle-earth in any meaningful way. There are glimmers of something good(ish) in there, but it’s suffocated by a disjointed story, awkward controls and dull stealth. | Read review |
Saudi Gamer | Unknown | 4 / 10 | 05-26-2023 | Daedalic Entertainment boldly chooses a game that has no obvious reason to exist and make it their passion project, but weirdly forgets to design it in a way that justifies its existence. TLOR Gollum is sadly everything you would fear. Out of touch on every front and most importantly, It misses every one of the very little attempts it make to feel compelling. | Read review |
Screen Rant | Austin King | 1 / 5 stars | 05-25-2023 | Still, the premise oddly works once it really gets going. The Lord of the Rings: Gollum doesn’t shy away from how much it relies on Tolkien’s works | Read review |
SECTOR.sk | Ján Kordoš | 3 / 10 | 06-01-2023 | Well-known brand, interesting main character, mix of different genres. What could possibly go wrong? Everything. You really don’t have to waste your money on this today. | Read review |
Shacknews | Donovan Erskine | 6 / 10 | 05-25-2023 | There’s no doubt in my mind that Lord of the Rings fans will appreciate a lot of what Gollum is offering. It’s genuinely cool seeing such a fascinating side character step into the protagonist role in a story that further expands on a universe teeming with secrets to discover. It’s a bummer that there isn’t much else to write home about. A dull gameplay experience and technical hiccups make The Lord of the Rings: Gollum just as much of a polarizing experience as its main character. | Read review |
Skill Up | Ralph Panebianco | Not Recommended | 05-25-2023 | Video Review | Read review |
Slant Magazine | Justin Clark | 2 / 5 stars | 05-25-2023 | Gollum just feels so shockingly old hat—a disheartening collection of mechanics that, at best, bring to mind one of the lesser pre-2013 Tomb Raider games and, at worst, suggest leftovers from the N64 bargain bin. Every success involves wrestling the loose controls, unhelpful camera, and iffy collision detection into submission against an ever-increasing wave of bugs and glitches, only some of which have been fixed by the game’s Day One patch. | Read review |
SpazioGames | Nicolò Bicego | 5 / 10 | 05-25-2023 | The Lord of the Rings: Gollum was a bad idea on paper and is an even worse as a game now that we can play it, with a dull and boring plot and a gameplay formula that feels too old to be real in 2023. | Read review |
TechRaptor | Brittany Alva | 6.5 / 10 | 05-25-2023 | The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is a great game for hardcore Middle-earth fans, but an experience that didn’t do Gollum’s character justice. | Read review |
The Angry Joe Show | Joe Vargas | 1 / 10 | 06-22-2023 | Video Review | Read review |
The Escapist | Will Cruz | Not Recommended | 05-26-2023 | Video Review | Read review |
The Game Crater | Nicholas Baker | 4 / 10 | 05-31-2023 | Lord of the Rings: Gollum disappointingly incorporates outdated mechanics and falls short of its potential. The game’s linear approach guides players through levels, with decisions that don’t significantly impact the storyline. Furthermore, the platforming mechanics prove to be a significant letdown, and the low-quality graphics and inconsistent music further detract from the overall experience. | Read review |
The Games Machine | Gabriele Barducci | 5 / 10 | 05-25-2023 | The Lord of the Rings Gollum is a game that came out of time. the title almost never convinces in any of its aspects, resulting in many parts frustrating. the game optimization itself never manages to be stable making it difficult to play. | Read review |
The Jimquisition | James Stephanie Sterling | 2.5 / 10 | 05-30-2023 | Daedalic had an opportunity to prove the cynics wrong when so many people wondered what the hell the point of a Gollum game would even be. Instead, they handled this with such utter clumsiness they likely ensured a game like it will never happen again. | Read review |
TheSixthAxis | Gareth Chadwick | 1 / 10 | 05-25-2023 | The Lord of the Rings: Gollum was conceptually a game with some promise, but from what I’ve seen so far, it’s a mediocre and messy experience that doesn’t really come together into a cohesive whole. That is, of course, before coming to the bugs, the crashes and the game-breaking progression issues that make it impossible to complete at this time. Considering that I was actually looking forward to this, this one really stings. | Read review |
TrueGaming | Unknown | 4 / 10 | 06-11-2023 | The motive behind developing this game is a mystery. Visuals and gameplay are from two generations before, and the story is meaningless. Safe your precious time, and skip this one. | Read review |
Twinfinite | Cameron Waldrop | 1.5 / 5 stars | 05-25-2023 | The Lord of the Rings: Gollum doesn’t do anything fun or interesting like similar (better) games like A Plague Tale: Innocence and Requiem. It’s hard to say if even the most loyal Lord of the Rings fans would actually find something worthwhile here. Considering good Lord of the Rings games exist, this one feels incredibly out of place. | Read review |
VGChartz | Lee Mehr | 1.5 / 10 | 06-26-2023 | It should be removed from physical & digital shelves until it can be finished without resorting to banging your skull against sheetrock. | Read review |
WayTooManyGames | Thomas Medina | 3.5 / 10 | 06-16-2023 | I don’t think it’s some greedy money grab, a worthless piece of trash, and the worst game ever. There is a ton of effort and quality here. It’s just buried under nonsense, which I suspect only exists because of market pressure. A $50 niche stealth game is a hard sell, and being a short game only makes it more so. But I think we can all agree that taking the same game and artificially inflating it to AAA length at AA quality wasn’t the solution. And while Daedalic has said they intend to work on and fix the game, I honestly don’t see how. The damage is done, the issues baked in. Just learn and move on. | Read review |
Wccftech | Ule Lopez | 6.5 / 10 | 05-25-2023 | The Lord of the Rings Gollum is a game that has a lot of technical issues that also ultimately drag its presentation back. However, it still is a charming game in its own way with its setting, writing, and some incredible environment design that can catch your breath at times. This game is a cautious recommendation for players that aren’t Lord of the Rings enthusiasts. | Read review |
We Got This Covered | Dwayne Jenkins | 2 / 5 stars | 05-25-2023 | The Lord of the Rings: Gollum has the ghost of good ideas sprinkled throughout, but they’re woefully hindered by dated graphics; stiff, wonky controls; endless bugs, glitches, and crashes; and in-game gimmicks that fail to live up to their lofty ambitions. King Theoden sums it up best: “You have no power here.” | Read review |
WellPlayed | Zach Jackson | 3 / 10 | 05-25-2023 | With dated design, LotR: Gollum is a slow and tedious slog through Middle Earth that even the staunchest LotR fans will struggle to enjoy. | Read review |
Worth Playing | Chris “Atom” DeAngelus | 5 / 10 | 05-26-2023 | Like the character itself, Gollum is an ugly, depressing, pitiable mess that’s destined for a bad end and with little to recommend it. With a stronger design behind it, this title could’ve perhaps been redeemed, but the version we got isn’t that. It’s not good, it’s not entertainingly bad, and it’s not even interestingly broken. It’s just a lackluster, licensed game that doesn’t seem to have a point, and it focuses on a character that even die-hard fans don’t want to play as. | Read review |
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