LEGO The Hobbit

LEGO The Hobbit brings a bigger world, improved gameplay elements and a deeper gaming experience than thought possible with a LEGO game. If you like the LEGO games, then you need this one in your collection. It’s certainly the best of the best amongst its LEGO brethren.

The LEGO experience is getting way too similar across the many episodes of the franchise, even though this time the universe it borrows from is reason enough to enjoy it. Fans of The Hobbit should not miss this game.

Unfortunately this videogame has at least one deal breaking bug, plus (again!) no trophies for Player 2. Other than that, LEGO The Hobbit is just as loveable as LEGO LotR. Lots of recognizable scenes from the movie with new ways to collect LEGO-bricks and things. Plus, Saruman tells the storyline for people that are not familiar with the story of the Hobbit. Lovely for old and young players.

If anything, Lego The Hobbit will improve your opinion of the films. [June 2014, p.71]

There's no reason to recommend not buying the game if you're a LEGO game enthusiast, but you may want to hold off on it until you've seen The Battle of the Five Armies and LEGO The Hobbit is actually a complete game.

Never revolutionary, but it's still a cheery, tipped-out toybox filled with jokes, puzzles and loving references to Peter Jackson's new film trilogy. [June 2014, p.92]

Gathering loot and buddy attacks are super additions that do just enough to improve the series.

LEGO The Hobbit is another LEGO game, with yet another skin. But it still retains that all important fun factor.

Lego: The Hobbit is a surprisingly complex and expansive title that is sure to entertain for many hours as a result.

Lego the Hobbit's succinct storytelling and engrossing world actually added a lot to my appreciation of the fiction. This stands as my favorite adaptation of the book.

Business as usual... though this time Traveller's Tales has added some much needed improvements and additions to the otherwise solid formula of the LEGO games. If you're a fan of either The Hobbit or the LEGO franchise, you should definitely check this out.

A new classic for the LEGO franchise. Maybe not the best of all, but nonetheless a very deep and fun adventure-sandbox game.

There’s nothing unexpected about this journey, but that doesn’t make it any less enjoyable.

Each location along the way is filled with plenty of side-quests, clever puzzles, and secret locations waiting to be discovered. It adds a good dozen hours or more to the experience, making this fantasy world bursting with things to do almost seem like a much more whimsical kids’ version of an Elder Scrolls game.

With all of the side quests and collectibles, Lego The Hobbit is a complete and entertaining game. If you were counting on the Lego version of a movie adaptation of a 70-year-old book to deliver an unsullied narrative experience, you were expecting too much anyway.

Although Lego The Hobbit is a fairly good game, it's yet again another clone of the Traveller's Tales' Lego franchise. The game mechanics haven't changed and especially monotonous combat system really gets to my nerves. The journey was also unexpected, as the game covers only the two first movies and the third installation of the series is coming later on as an DLC package. [May 2014]

LEGO The Hobbit is ultimately par for the course.

It's disappointing that Warner Bros. didn't wait for the complete Hobbit story. They should have waited for the last part of Peter Jackson's trilogy. But like almost all the Lego games, this is a journey worth taking.

LEGO The Hobbit is a fun game with a sturdy gaming engine but it definitely doesn't give this genre anything new.

It is not to say that there is no fun to be had in this re-imagined Legoverse, because even with tired familiarities, Lego The Hobbit does plenty to satisfy you with its charm and whim, but the franchise needs a modest makeover if it wants to keep its youthful patrons engrossed.

LEGO The Hobbit, not surprisingly, is yet another good game in the series created by TT Games. Once again, and despite the few innovations, the game was able to conquer our hearts in a few minutes, thanks to its rich contents and great lasting appeal.

LEGO The Hobbit isn’t the hardest game and has its problems, but the charm and humor of the LEGO-characters in Middle-Earth make up for that.

Still, it’s an often charming, fun, and light-hearted romp through the LEGO version of Middle-Earth, and it certainly warrants a look.

The storytelling presumes you already know the source material by heart, which means things are sometimes a bit disjointed, and the game, like the movies it’s based on, ends at an awkward place. But like almost all the Lego games, this is a journey worth taking.

The transition from film to a LEGO game is excellent and lovely. It is an invitation to rediscover the world Hobbit, any Tolkien fan should feel at least tempted to accept.

LEGO The Hobbit is not the weakest entry in TT Games franchise, but it feels like one of the less inspired and suffers from the very same weird pace of the movies is based upon. LEGO games really need to take a break for a bit.

Lego: The Hobbit offers a charming adventure that actually tries to breathe some new air into the Lego franchise. Unfortunately some of the new additions don’t work very well, and it’s a shame that the big open world isn’t used in a more meaningful way.

LEGO: The Hobbit is a fun game with a huge, sprawling world, but in the end it's a bittersweet experience, mostly because of the story that's missing.

For better or worse, the series keeps on chugging. Thankfully it is always of high quality.

On PlayStation 4, the game looks absolutely amazing, especially in the cutscenes and major battles when it matters most. Unfortunately, the source material lets down TT Games here; the dwarves just aren't very distinct when compared to the cast of Lego Marvel and The Lego Movie. All told, Lego The Hobbit is very good, but it doesn't reach the best of those previous titles.

It’s very faithful to the movie and manages to embellish enough so as to not be a simple retelling, yet doesn’t quite cover enough ground to be anything other than a companion to the films. It’s probably the best Hobbit game you’re going to get – just don’t expect a massive deviation from the LEGO formula.

As usual, the selling point is the setting tied to the game. If you (or your kids) are big fans of "The Hobbit," then they'll enjoy the game. If not, it'd be better to look at one of the many other franchise tie-ins that have received the LEGO treatment.

It looks great, the gameplay has enough variety to remain interesting and the sampled movie dialogue (and that mesmerising score) add an air of gravitas to the whole shebang. But, it is still just another LEGO game and, as such, does little to make it stand out from its ever-increasing crowd of peers.

LEGO The Hobbit is a fun little game that serves its purpose well.

It may be incomplete, narratively speaking, but Lego The Hobbit is just as content-packed as any other game in the series, and is a great experience for Lego and Middle-earth diehards alike.

It would've been much better it it had conviction and went fully role-playing Lego game. [Issue#244, p.63]

Only Hobbit-sized improvements to the formula. May as well wait for the inevitable re-release that includes the third movie DLC. [June 2014, p77]

In the pantheon of LEGO games, LEGO The Hobbit isn’t the worst by a long shot – but the formula’s certainly getting tired.

Despite its sudden conclusion and its familiar gameplay, LEGO The Hobbit is a fitting adventure, adapting the films for younger and older players alike.

Much like the film, there’s a sense that content has been stretched, while new narrative has been crudely implemented to paper over the cracks.

LEGO The Hobbit is a good game to play with your kids, but some of the new ideas implemented in the formula are quite annoying, and it's sometimes hard to understand what the game expects you to do. This is still quite a nice adaptation of the 2 first movies of the trilogy.

One of the weakest Lego games of recent times, and not just because the formula is getting old but because The Hobbit isn’t a particularly good fit for it.

And it feels empty; fetch quests are all well and good but after the impressive voice acting and general spectacle of the main adventure starts to fade, you’re left with an altogether dull world in which to roam.

I can't work up the energy to actively dislike the LEGO games so long as they're this innocuous and harmless, and spanning just over a dozen levels, LEGO The Hobbit doesn't waste too much of the player's time. But, with all of the most fitting licenses having been used up already, the LEGO spoof series is losing its relevance, and it's not a particularly good time anymore, either.

LEGO – The Hobbit falls into those titles of the LEGO universe that do not bring off, and as a matter of fact this is a valid statement when look at the game from general viewpoint. Compared with the other LEGO titles it lags behind mainly because of its weak mini games along with unimaginative gaming components continuation.