The Hobbit
Step into the hairy hobbits' feet of Bilbo Baggins in Vivendi Universal Games' take on Tolkien's prequel to the massive Lord of the Rings trilogy.
The Hobbit is an adventure developed by Inevitable Entertainment, released 11 November 2003 on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 10 hrs to finish.
What The Hobbit is
The Hobbit is an adventure game developed by Inevitable Entertainment and released in 2003. It was published by Sierra Entertainment. It is available on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Embarking on the legendary quest armed initially with a stick and sack of stones, you'll fend off foes in a platform-action-style adventure which sees Bilbo go from timid Shireling to hobbit hero. As in the epic text, the tale begins with a group of nine dwarves recruiting the home-loving hobbit as a master thief for their mission to recover stolen ancestral gold from under the fiery snout of Smaug the dragon. The group head for the Lonely Mountain, stopping along the way to fight it out with a variety of Middle-earth's less-than-friendly inhabitants, such as giant spiders, murderous goblins and bloodthirsty trolls.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the The Hobbit series
The Hobbit is the third of 4 entries we hold in the The Hobbit series. The next entry was LEGO The Hobbit in 2014.
How it was received
The Hobbit holds a critic score of 59 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 10 points below the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 10 hrs.
What it launched against
The Hobbit launched on 11 November 2003, within three weeks of Call of Duty, Beyond Good & Evil, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Call of Duty, Beyond Good & Evil, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Hobbit yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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