If you've read the books, you're going to like it. The characters you've read so much about are recreated in a believable way, partly due to the voice acting which adds to their personality. The story itself also follows quite exactly to the book with dialogue that, at times, comes straight from the books. Of course there are a fiew changes due to budget, adaption to a different platform, but nothing really off putting to those who've read the books. The only thing that's a bit unfortunate is the rather quick ending. As soon as you leave the realm of the fifthlings, the game is over rather swiftly. In a certain way that's understandable, the books step up a pace at the end as well, but the final battle could have been a bit longer, challenging and more heroic.
For gameplay, the basics are rather easy to handle but due to the different difficulty settings you can still enjoy a tougher challange which will require coordination and strategic thinking for those who really want a challange.
Graphics are well done with a right ammount of attention to detail. I haven't played the game with the digital deluxe edition so I can't go into that further.
Appearently there are numerous problems with corrupt saves and crashes. I've only experienced this one time so I can't really complain about it. I do understand that this is an important issue to which attention needs to be payed, let's hope that upcomming patches will solve some of these issues.
Overall, I really liked playing this game, I was really exited when I found out they made a game about it and was quite pleased they kept true to the books. They worked out the characters in accordance with the books and worked out their personalities so that each of them really feels like their book counterpart. Apart from the mentioned issues it's a good game with a lot of future potential when the current problems are solved.

If you've read the books, you're going to like it. The characters you've read so much about are recreated in a believable way, partly due to the voice acting which adds to their personality. The story itself also follows quite exactly to the book with dialogue that, at times, comes straight from the books. Of course there are a fiew changes due to budget, adaption to a different platform, but nothing really off putting to those who've read the books. The only thing that's a bit unfortunate is the rather quick ending. As soon as you leave the realm of the fifthlings, the game is over rather swiftly. In a certain way that's understandable, the books step up a pace at the end as well, but the final battle could have been a bit longer, challenging and more heroic. For gameplay, the basics are rather easy to handle but due to the different difficulty settings you can still enjoy a tougher challange which will require coordination and strategic thinking for those who really want a challange. Graphics are well done with a right ammount of attention to detail. I haven't played the game with the digital deluxe edition so I can't go into that further. Appearently there are numerous problems with corrupt saves and crashes. I've only experienced this one time so I can't really complain about it. I do understand that this is an important issue to which attention needs to be payed, let's hope that upcomming patches will solve some of these issues. Overall, I really liked playing this game, I was really exited when I found out they made a game about it and was quite pleased they kept true to the books. They worked out the characters in accordance with the books and worked out their personalities so that each of them really feels like their book counterpart. Apart from the mentioned issues it's a good game with a lot of future potential when the current problems are solved.