The Lord of the Rings: Gollum Is One of PS5's Worst Ever Games

Looks fun to me! I love the LOTR series so I will definitely play it.

Kind of reminds me of the Styx games, which I liked.

I still plan on grabbing it on a steep sale price, $20 or less.

As a Tolkien mega fan, I can endure quite a lot just to experience something in middle earth...but I won't be touching this.

@Dman10. Come on playa.styx is way better than that.styx got a attitude dont let him hear you say that he might come and get you.haha.😀😁.word up son

Ehhhh. Never appealed to me.

So many people willing to buy a broken game. Where one reviewer had 120 crashes.

This people is why we get games releasing in this state. A fool and their money are certainly easy parted in the gaming community.

Seriously this game was bing made for years. I'm a big lord of the rings fan 😎 id play this but holy moly this sounds bad. Well not rings of power bad 😂

When you spend all your budget acquiring the license and have nothing left to spend on development.

I won't be baggins this one.

Let’s not forget charging extra for lore friendly dialogue. Deserves what it gets.

Literally called it when it was first announced. Some times you just know.

@Somebody don't think you'll have long to wait

I love LotR so I was really hoping this one would pull through. Deep down, I knew it launch as a complete mess though.

I think it's made for fans, they will like it even if the game is not a very good one. And I have no problem with this.. every single game even the worst ones are a lot of fun for the proper audience.

Man what a pos they just set a new bar; a low one.

I actually quite enjoyed Rings Of Power, @SgtTruth. It certainly wasn't as bad as many made out. I doubt a lot of the people criticising it actually watched. Just jumped on the Bash the Latest Thing bandwagon. Horses for courses, I guess...

Bill-DOH Balls-Baggins...

If J.R.R Tolkien himself were to rise from his grave and command me to play this game, I still would not.

Gollum needs to scuttle off into hiding he can lose the wig then; too nobody was buying it

@Mad001
Rings of Power was vaguely entertaining. This seems like an all out mess of the game. And least Rings looked beautiful and had some semblance of plot. This just seems awful all around.

@SgtTruth to say this is worse than RoP is truly a disingenuous and trolling statement at best. But by all means, go play this schlock and tell us how it’s better than Rings of Power, we await your review.

Since when was this AAA? It looked AA to me from the start. not that it takes away from how bad it is.

Same as Saints Row and Forspoken, I might give it a chance when its $5 or so.

That isn't I said, @LN78, I said that I thought a number of those that piled in hadn't even seen it. I did not say that all those that disliked it had not seen it.

We see it all the time, people criticising a game, for example, because others have played it and not enjoyed it, and so deciding that it must be bad.

Don't misinterpret what I said. There will be plenty of people that enjoyed the show, just as there will be plenty that didn't. As always though, those that don't enjoy something speak with the loudest voice. We are all entitled to an opinion. We are all entitled to disagree with each others opinion. However, that does not make the opinion of someone else less valid. The only situation where someone's opinion carries less weight is when they personally have not experienced something that they are criticising as they are then basing there opinion on the opinions of others, and that was what I was getting at. I bet there are plenty of people that have expressed an opinion on the show without having first seen it. The show sits at 3/5 stars. Effectively at a rating of 60% approval as opposed to 40% that disapproved. So I would take it from that that the majority of people enjoyed it, and as I said earlier, people that are dissatisfied with a product are more likely to leave a review / pass comment / criticise, than those that enjoy it...

@Deemo37 I was looking forward to this game il wait til the next one. Have a good one 👍

The attacks on this game are ridiculously overboard.
I'm only about halfway in, but it's pretty good.
Sure, it has an occasional bug and stray texture problems, but they aren't anything game interfering or anything I haven't seen in all other games in spots.
This was never advertised as a Hogwarts game, which has massive scope and tons of variety in controls.
It's an old fashioned, straight forward stealth and platforming game.
I'm finding the level layout good and the atmosphere of being the Middle Earth universe is well done.
It is singleminded, reminding me a lot of Styx. It's not a sweeping RPG and didn't try to fool you it was.
If platforming and sneaking through the Lords Of The Rings is up your alley, it delivers. Controls work well.
There aren't a bunch of collectables or twists and turns in the plot. It's stealth and platforming and that's it.
But those two things are done well.
I don't know, maybe it's because I'm not 60 frames fanatic, I'm playing it on raytracing and aside from the occasional light issue at some scenes, it looks good.
Not award winning, but certainly not terrible, either.
It does what it does well and doesn't try to be any more than that.
I can understand not everyone liking a smaller scope, that it's not their preference, but the one star reviews and trashing I've seen out there are silly hyperbole showing why you can't trust reviewers anymore to give effective critiques.
Sometimes they way, way overpraise and sometimes they act as though a game were so broken it's unplayable.
It's rare to find anything more accurate and Gollum got put on the hit list, because while it may not be a game of the year, it's not garbage.

@Fiendish-Beaver Dead on. Totally agree.

Hence why I never buy day one games as this is becoming the normal thing to release games in a broken state and patch it.its an absolute joke of a game which I wouldn't give to my worst enemy as a gift.wait I would give my worst enemy it as a gift 😂🤬😂

Don't you mean worst PS2 game? this has no business being called a PS5 game!

@burning_as_souls

It looks like a PS3 game.

I actually liked Balan Wonderworld.

I’d be happy if we saw no more LOTR games. My former housemate used to put on the directors cut DVDs and make us watch the special features too. Horrendously boring stuff - the films and the behind the scenes… Yick

My intention was to buy it for £20 or less but the more I see and hear the more that max price I'd pay decreases. They may need to pay me to play it at this rate 🤣

And I stand by the comment, @LN78, I bet a lot of people who have not seen it were criticising it. Was that the majority of people? Probably not, and that is why I did not say that. I guess it depends on what you consider a lot; if you were to say just 1% of people that did so was a lot, it would depend on the overall number of people that passed a view. 1% of 1000 is 10, and I'd agree then that that would not constitute 'a lot'. But is the sample size was a million, then that 1% then stands at 10,000 people, and 10,000 people is a lot, even if objectively speaking still be a massive minority. And for the record, I am not saying that 1% of people that criticised the show had not seen it. I obviously have no idea of the actual figure.

Many people form opinions based on the opinions of others, which is why they refer to reviews and YouTube. I like to make up my own mind, but still tend to look at reviews too. Always have done. We've all seen snappy trailers and been disappointed in the final product (Aliens: Colonial Marines, for example. Though even that was not as bad as many make out). And likewise, many films have had poor trailers, and then gone on to release an enjoyable product (the original Hellboy, for example).

So, my point is that a lot of people will have decided not to watch Rings of Power based on the reviews and opinions of others. Some of the those will have gone so far as to express a negative opinion of the programme too, based on the opinions of those that had slated it (whether or not they too had seen it). And it follows that even some of those that had previously expressed negativity towards the series, without having first watched it, may well have enjoyed the show had they actually watched it. A lot of people add too much weight to the reviews of others when it is often best to form that opinion for yourself...

I don't understand how this happened. The game looked like a GOTY contender just months ago