Macworld reviewed the Macintosh versions of The Hobbit, The Fellowship of the Ring and The Shadows of Mordor simultaneously, criticizing The Hobbit, calling it "particularly clumsy" as it is "handicapped by a 400-word input vocabulary" as opposed to the latter two games' 800 words.
Macworld evaluated the Macintosh versions of The Hobbit, The Fellowship of the Ring, and The Shadows of Mordor. They criticized The Hobbit for being "particularly awkward" because it had only 400-word input vocabulary, unlike the other two games which had a more extensive vocabulary of 800 words.