LEGO The Hobbit

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.