Why “The Lord of the Rings: Gollum” falls short in graphics, gameplay, and story

There is more fundamentally wrong with this game, not just technically.

In terms of graphics, it’s just not pretty, even though they’ll fix the many clumsy bugs. Facial expressions are weird especially from gollum, animations are weird. Animations are not finished or are missing. Of course that can all be patched, but that still seems like a huge amount of work to me.

In terms of gameplay, it also makes no sense, instead of a game where you think you have to avoid orcs with a stealthy gollum (that’s there, but it’s terribly bad and the AI ​​is terribly clumsy, climbing and scrambling was better in the first tomb raider) runs especially about performing lame chores.
In terms of story they have put down such a strange gollum, so not at all what you are used to from Hobbit and LotR.

So no, this game is just bad from head to toe. And we’re not just talking about some (even gamebreaking) bugs.

It is therefore non-canon, if you want to play it because you like the LotR world, don’t bother. It’s not like they tried to recreate Barad Dur as best they could, it’s just a lame platformer, so level design is after that too. The main characters in the story are also non-canon. You can replace all names and characters with something non LotR, and it wouldn’t even be a ripoff, it has so little to do with LotR, in fact, the game would be better if the main character didn’t have to represent Gollum.