Review: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1

johnman

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A few days ago my friend told me this game uses the Unreal engine, I replied "Its gears of potter?", not thinking he was serious.

Seriously? A cover based shooter where they just replaced guns with a wand and ammo with spells. Originality!
 

Ampersand

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I think, the matrix: path of neo, stands as the only example of a movie to game adaptation ever being good......with the possible exception of one or two of the starwars games.
 

DemonicVixen

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I like the look of the X-Box version where you actually control the game with your body movements (similar to the Wii), and I still look forward to the computer version, even though i need games 3-6 lol.
 

Warachia

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I love ron at the end: "This is getting crazy!" But he's right, because I also hate pipes.
 

chaos order

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aw man the game actually looked sorta good :( i mean if the aiming worked and the mechanics were complex it couldve worked. Also, if there was multiplayer id love to cast
spells online, I'd be all like zap ************!
 

Unhappy Crow

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What's sad is that I actually wanted to play this game. Maybe it's worth the rent, but I doubt I'll get any enjoyment out of this.
 

Ekonk

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Okysho said:
So now even Harry Potter has been fed to the cover based shooters. I did NOT see this coming, but HOLY SHIT!!! THIS SHOOTER PHASE NEEDS TO End!!
Yeah it's weird, no? The first few HP games were more like free-roaming roleplay-like games, where you'd learn new spells while roaming Hogwarts, but then later on the games became linear shooting galleries.

It's a damn shame. There's a lot of gaming potential in the Harry Potter setting.
 

likalaruku

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I actually liked all of the games. They're not on my top 50 & I only played each one once or twice, but I don;t feel I got stiffed out of $20.
 

Ritter315

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I used to love these games. I played the 2nd game on PC and found it a great addition and gave some points and concepts I wouldnt have otherwise understood or noticed in the movies, and even gave some background on the book topics that werent in the movie, Peeves is a great example of this. But now they've lost the exploration of Hogwarts element that kept the games, and to some extent, the movies, interesting. Now its just going to be two more actions movies and we really dont need more of those at the moment, at least not in the games.
 

the_rotton_core

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I know it's not exactly the developers fault as they've most likely been contracted to make a game tie in to the movie franchise but I think making the games just based on the events of the films is a really short sighted use of the license.

Now I'm not a Potter fan per say, I've only seen the movies out of morbid curiosity and the story they tell doesn't seem in any way that origonal or interesting. But the world in which they're set does have a real charm. I think a much better use for the Harry Potter license would be a game set in the world with it's own story and characters. Think of it like "Bully" but set in Hogwarts. You could make a custom wizard, choose which magics to specialise in and level up throuugh study, follow a story over 7 years (kinda like how Fable passes time), there could be moral choices like in fable which affect the house you wind up in and the way you progress through the story etc etc. Harry Potter or not I'd play a game like that.

There's scope in the Harry Potter lisence for a great game... but this clearly isn't it.