Gollum is uninspired and dated and The Lord of the Rings fans deserve better than this.” Steven Impson, writing for Press Start, said, “I struggle to think of a positive experience over the thirteen-odd hours I spent playing this game. Not one of these outlets awarded The Lord of the Rings: Gollum a score higher than a 3. There were just four Australian sites that reviewed the game. Let’s go down the list, starting, as we always do, with the Aussies. I’ve updated the piece to fold these takes under the Rest of the World subheading. No new Australian reviews from overnight, but a few more of the major overseas outlets did drop their reviews. The PC score has not moved, and the Xbox versions of the game still have no reviews. One (1) PS4 review was filed with a score of 4 out of 10. Update 26/5 1:35pm: Checking back in the day after embargo, the PS5 score has actually risen to 40 across 29 reviews. A repeated refrain among all the tendered reviews is that it isn’t just a bad game, it’s one of the worst that many critics have played in a long, long while. (though I will recheck the scores in the morning and see if there have been any changes). There is not, at the time of writing, a single positive score in the bunch. The lack of reviews for any Xbox platform suggests that the PS5 and PC versions represent the best experience (that or Microsoft’s certification process is possibly much stricter than the other platforms). The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is currently sitting at a brutally low Metacritic score of just 38 from 21 critic reviews on the PlayStation 5 and 43 from 12 reviews on PC. Regrettably, it seems the latter might have actually been the better option.
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