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The Hobbit (2003)

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The Hobbit
The Hobbit cover
Developers
Inevitable Entertainment
Windows The Fizz Factor
Publishers
Sierra Entertainment
Retail re-release Sold Out Software
Release dates
Windows November 11, 2003
Reception
Metacritic 62
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Adventure, Platform
Art styles Stylized
Themes Fantasy
Series Middle-earth
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The Hobbit 1982
The Fellowship of the Ring 1985
The Shadows of Mordor 1987
J.R.R. Tolkien's War in Middle Earth 1988
The Crack of Doom 1989
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Vol. I 1990
J.R.R. Tolkien's Riders of Rohan 1990
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Vol. II 1992
The Fellowship of the Ring (2002) 2002
The Return of the King 2003
War of the Ring 2003
The Hobbit (2003) 2003
The Battle for Middle-earth (series)
The Lord of the Rings Online 2007
The Lord of the Rings: Conquest 2009
The Lord of the Rings: War in the North 2011
Lego Middle-earth (series)
Guardians of Middle-earth 2012
Middle-earth: Shadow (series)
Journeys in Middle-earth 2019
The Lord of the Rings: Adventure Card Game 2019
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum 2023
The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria 2023

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SecuROM DRM
Windows
A demo version is available.
This game is not available digitally.

Essential improvements

Patches

Patch 1.3 can be downloaded here.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\The Hobbit

Video

In-game video settings.
In-game video settings.
In-game performance settings.
In-game performance settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Capped at 30 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music, Effects and Voices.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
French
German
Italian
Polish
Local retail version only.
Russian
Spanish

VR support

3D modes State Notes
vorpX
G3D
User created profile, requires dgVoodoo2 v2.55.4, see profile introdution.
Note: Profile may not work with the latest wrapper, in case of issues please report to the vorpx forum.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Miles Sound System 3.0.0.0
Cutscenes Bink Video 1.5.1.0

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98, ME, 2000
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 450 MHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.7 GB
Video card (GPU) DirectX-compatible video card
32 MB of VRAM


References