The Lord Of The Rings: Gollum Is Currently 2023's Lowest-Rated Game
After months of delays, The Lord Of The Rings: Gollum has arrived. And according to critics, it's terrible. It's so bad, in fact, that Gollum is now the worst-rated game of 2023 on two review-compiling websites.
Head over to Metacritic, and you'll find The Lord Of The Rings: Gollum for the PS5 at the very bottom of its list of 296 games released this year so far. Go to OpenCritic and it's much the same story, with plenty of sites providing absolutely abysmal review scores.
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Including our own. Ben Sledge didn't mince words when he called Lord of the Rings: Gollum "really fucking boring," with dated graphics, bad facial animations, flat textures, and bizarre physics that caused some fascinating glitches.
"Gollum’s legs hang rigid when he clings to a beam, his hair clips through his forehead regularly, and the entire lower half of his face sometimes moves instead of just his mouth, with audio arriving seconds later," he wrote in his review. Other glitches included falling inside walls and ramps, forcing him to restart entire levels.
As for the story, "There’s no narrative tension, the first half of the game revolves around simply ‘escaping Mordor’, something that we already know Gollum did, which isn’t expanded upon in any meaningful way." Throw in dated stealth mechanics and conversation choices that have no bearing on the outcome of the story, and you get a review score from us of 1.5 stars out of five.
Other sites were even less charitable. "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," Push Square wrote in its
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