‘It’s a technical disaster, at least on PC, and even when it does work, it feels like an extended forced stealth section from a game where stealth is just one of 50,000 other systems. Reuben took particular issue with the technical performance of the game, which reportedly led to a frustrating and janky experience: Writing for The Guardian, Nic Reuben called The Lord of the Rings: Gollum a ‘derivative, uninteresting and fundamentally broken stealth action adventure that fails to capture anything interesting about Tolkien’s fiction’. So if the developers’ main goal was to really put you in the shoes of such a pitiful, unloveable character faced with constant pain and suffering at every turn, they were at least successful at that.’ And, like Gollum, my journey was doomed from the start. ‘Much like Gollum’s quest for the One Ring, my quest to complete The Lord of the Rings: Gollum was full of endless setbacks, impossible odds, and ever-increasing levels of madness. Over on GameSpot, reviewer Sam Pape labelled Gollum ‘unlikeable and tragic’, lamenting the lost potential of this adventure – which is also harshly described as an ‘unbridled disaster’. Here’s what the critics had to say about The Lord of the Rings: Gollum. Read: The Lord of the Rings – New MMO in the works at Amazon Games It’s extremely rare that video games fall to the ‘red’ part of the score meter, as Metacritic includes a wide range of voices, from mainstream press to niche, specialist publications.īut it seems that the majority of critics are struggling to conjure any enthusiasm for the game, thanks to a range of issues – game-breaking bugs, confusing level design, extremely poor controls, bad stealth mechanics, muddy environments, terrible AI, and a gameplay loop that relies on plodding, menial tasks. Not only a bad game, but one of the worst-reviewed games of 2023 so far.Īhead of the game’s release, the game currently has a score of 40 on Metacritic, the aggregate website that compiles review scores from critics worldwide. There is no pleasure in saying The Lord of the Rings: Gollum has turned out to be a very bad game. But there are certainly times and circumstances that birth such creations, leaving everyone disappointed in their wake.
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