This year's gaming scene can be said to be a grand event for gamers, with new titles from various well-known games and remastered versions of classic old games emerging one after another. In the first two years, everyone was still waiting for the game to be played, and this year it can be said that the speed of players playing cannot keep up with the speed of game release. What is even more exaggerated is that not only good games emerge one after another, but even those games that are outrageously rotten one after another, it can be said that this year is everything.
Just this year, after experiencing the baptism of SE Nara's "Cursed Land" and Microsoft's "Red Sky Island", I thought that this year's bad game was already bottoming out, but I didn't expect that soon after, a game called "Lord of the Rings" was born. And as soon as he made a shot, IGN gave 4 points, GS gave 2 points, and the average MC score also occupied the bottom one this year with an ultra-low score of 36 points.
Steam mostly has bad reviews
Out of curiosity, I tried to play a bit, but after just over an hour, I got my refund. On the one hand, it is because although the game is poor in all aspects, the price is not low. On the other hand, this more than an hour of game experience makes me really can't stand this game, even if there is any point, even complaining, I don't know where to complain, looking at it, it is full of shortcomings and no advantages.
Poor graphics and poor optimization
The visual performance of the game is always the first impression that the game shows to players. Unfortunately, this first impression of Lord of the Rings is terrible. With the effects full, the graphics of Lord of the Rings are excellent as if they were at the top level of 2013, and with this excellent level of graphics 10 years ago, it is the extremely poor optimization.
It's like a game from 10 years ago
It may be that this year's game manufacturers have collectively rotted on the PC side optimization, and "Lord of the Rings" naturally joined as a part of it. In addition to the massive bugs in the game, frame drops and lag of the game are everywhere under normal game conditions. Failure and recurrence due to a stutter during the game abound, and in just over an hour of gameplay, my feeling was to fight with stuttering and sudden bugs all the time.
Unflattering casting and empty game content
Before the game's release, the game was advertised as an RPG. First of all, as an RPG game, I still haven't figured out why the production team allowed a large number of handsome men and beautiful women in the original book of The Lord of the Rings not to choose, and chose a Gollum who makes players unsympathetic in appearance and personality as the protagonist.
Unflattering casting
As confusing as the choice of protagonist, the content of the game is equally confusing. As an RPG game, or the Lord of the Rings series with such a grand background, there is not a single RPG element in the game. Our protagonist Gollum has no character growth system, no talent skills, and of course, if you have to say it, Gollum is not suitable for the growth system itself. However, in addition to the lack of RPG elements, this game does not even have a combat system, and the only enemy that can be killed is assassination, and there is only one. It can be said that this game is skinned with an RPG and actually does nothing.
Single and boring gameplay with outrageous game mechanics
The game has collapsed from the first look of the picture to the character system, and only the gameplay is still a little bit of expectation. However, this game never disappoints in terms of disappointing, and the gameplay can be said to be single and boring to the extreme. In the pre-release promotional video, the official showed the game's stealth and climbing gameplay, but when players look forward to gameplay other than stealth climbing, they will be pleasantly surprised to find that the official honestly tells you all the gameplay of the game in the promotional video. Yes, stealth climbing is the only way to play this game.
The main gameplay of the game
In fact, stealth gameplay is not impossible to support a game, for example, the famous stealth game "Prince of Persia" was once a generation of gods, but the stealth gameplay of "Lord of the Rings" is really bad to be outrageous. The enemies in the game have no alert range at all, and you can't predict their field of vision. Coupled with the same bugs as the mystery, sometimes you will suddenly be caught by them and re-level when you are obviously facing away from them. Sometimes when you are discovered, you just need to run to the stairs, and the enemies will ignore you as if they are blind, and the whole stealth gameplay can be said to be like a child's play in the game.
Often because of outrageous judgment failures in the game
The climbing judgment mechanism of the game is also very bad, and there are often players in the game who jump towards the climbing point, but because of the bad judgment, the player's action fails and starts over. Climbing can be said to account for most of the game's content, resulting in players fighting countless bugs while also fighting against these terrible game mechanics when they can finally play normally. And that's the main reason why I ended up playing and chose to get a refund.
Summary: A game that can't find anything necessary to play
Overall, Lord of the Rings is a terrible game, and as a gamer, I've had a lot of bad reviews in my twenty-plus years since I was a kid. However, those games have more or less some highlights, and Lord of the Rings I couldn't find anything worth saying after my less than 2 hours of play. I even have some doubts about the psychology of the production team to develop such a worthless game, and I don't recommend this game to anyone except for players who are as curious as I am.
Personal rating: 1/10