10 Video Games So Bad They KILLED OTHER GAMES

Hello again, Embracer Group.

When Embracer studio Daedelic bought the rights to make a Lord of the Rings game starring Gollum, Embracer Group saw this as just the beginning of a long, lucrative relationship with the IP. 

This, like all of Embracer's plans to brute force their way into the industry, blew up right into their faces, as Gollum was universally decried as one of the worst games of its year. And the year before that. And probably the year before that, too. 

The horrific love child of Embracer's terrible management and Daedelic not having the skill or manpower to match their ambition, Gollum is almost indescribably bad. Another Middle-Earth game was released later that year, Return To Moria, but due to a combination of its own shortcomings and - ya know - being associated with Gollum, that game bombed as well. On top of that, any Middle-Earth projects that Embracer had in the pipeline were swiftly canceled after Gollum dropped. 

Gollum was a disaster from top to bottom. A decent-enough spin on the proven formula of LOTR games, bogged down by a studio ill-equipped to handle the task, and a publisher that doesn't know what it's doing.