

GameSpot gave the game a 2 out of 10, while DigitalTrends refused to even score it. “ Gollum is full of technical problems that make an otherwise unpleasant experience even worse, and the game’s boring story makes it hard to recommend, even to the most hardcore Lord of the Rings fans,” wrote Inverse. “A derivative, uninteresting and fundamentally broken stealth action adventure that fails to capture anything interesting about Tolkien’s fiction,” wrote The Guardian in its review. Some of the dialogue and UI fonts, meanwhile, appear to just be Calibri from Microsoft Office. The second he’s spotted, the screen cuts to black and restarts from a game over. Most of the action focuses on Gollum platforming around environments while avoiding guards.


I watched snippets of a full playthrough that leaked on YouTube earlier this week which showed graphics that looked markedly worse than what was in some of the promotional images. The 22 Best Games For The Nintendo Switch The 15 Best Games For Sony's PlayStation 5 But Daedalic and publisher Nacon plunged ahead with a $60 PlayStation and Xbox release anyway. The twisted creature turned into a mid-aughts CGI icon thanks to a masterful performance by actor Andy Serkis is not particularly heroic, doesn’t have any cool abilities, and is mostly relegated to a background plot device in the books. More than a few people scratched their heads when Daedalic Entertainment announced it was making a Lord of the Rings game all about Gollum. One website even decided against reviewing it altogether because it was so wonky to play prior to a launch-day update. Tolkien’s Hobbit and the War of the Ring trilogy has garnered some of the lowest review scores I’ve ever seen. The narrative-driven stealth game set in-between J.R.R. The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is apparently a hot mess. Gollum looks wide-eyed at his game's poor reception.
