The Lord of the Rings: Gollum

"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 …"

"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."

"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 …"

"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."

"The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is a great game for hardcore Middle-earth fans, but an experience that didn&s;t do Gollum&s;s character justice."

"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 …"

"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;s a pity, especially since the game is full of bugs as it is."

"A strong sense of character is let down by poor controls, fiddly implementation, and bugs."

"The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is littered with technical and gameplay issues that dampen the fact that there&s;s a great story at its heart."

"Just like Gollum, I&s;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 …"

"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 …"

"The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is often a nasty fried potato, even for great Lord of the Rings fans."

"For all its many flaws, LOTR: Gollum is an oft-beautiful and oddly endearing adventure."

"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 …"

"The Lord of the Rings: Gollum has the ghost of good ideas sprinkled throughout, but they&s;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 …"

"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 …"

"The Lord of the Rings: Gollum was conceptually a game with some promise, but from what I&s;ve seen so far, it&s;s a mediocre and messy experience that doesn&s;t really come together into a cohesive whole. That is, of course, before …"

"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."

"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 …"

"The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is a commendable game for Daedalic&s;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, …"

""A mess from start to finish. This is truly tators.""

"The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is a messy and frustrating action platformer set in Middle-earth. ... Most of the gameplay involves platforming and stealth, though neither works very well. Gollum is full of technical problems that make an otherwise …"

"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 …"

"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."

"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 …"

"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;s saga and the playful phases are inaccurate …"

"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. …"

"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 …"

"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 …"

"A derivative, uninteresting and fundamentally broken stealth action adventure that fails to capture anything interesting about Tolkien&s;s fiction"

"The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is an unwelcome throwback to the era of truly awful licensed games. It looks and plays like a movie tie-in game rushed out to meet a tight deadline. This is baffling as it was …"

"Daedalic&s;s long-delayed Tolkienian adventure is just as unlikeable and tragic as its namesake protagonist."

"Much like the namesake character himself, The Lord of The Rings: Gollum couldn&s;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 …"

"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 …"