The Hobbit is a 2003 platform/action-adventure video game developed by Inevitable Entertainment for the GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox, by The Fizz Factor for Microsoft Windows and by Saffire for the Game Boy Advance. It was published on all platforms by Sierra Entertainment. The game was released in North America on all platforms on November 11, 2003. In Europe, it was released for the GameBoy Advance on October 24 and for all other systems on November 11.
The game is an official licensed adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's 1937 novel, The Hobbit, and it has no relationship with the Peter Jackson-directed Lord of the Rings film trilogy, released in cinemas in 2001, 2002 and 2003. The game sticks very closely to the plot of the novel, although it does feature some minor characters not found in Tolkien's original. It received generally mixed reviews across all systems, with critics praising its fidelity to the source material, but finding the gameplay too derivative of the games in The Legend of Zelda series. |