Not all of the spells are purely for attack though, with Leviosa allowing you to create and destroy cover and Confundo giving you the power to turn enemies into allies for a brief period. The game is designed like a third person action title, complete with an intuitive cover system but with a wand as your only weapon. The time for exploring Hogwarts and solving puzzles is over, as the young wizards battle Death Eaters and Lord Voldemort himself.
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Based on the blockbusting movie and the original novel, the first part of the Deathly Hallows finds Harry and his friends fighting for their lives in a much more action-orientated adventure than usual. I suppose that's a 'no'.As the saga of Harry Potter looms towards a conclusion at the cinema it's time for video games fans to get the game they've always wished for. His only reply was to wave his arms around and shout "stupefy!" over and over.
While I didn't play these challenges myself (and thus they are not part of this review) I did ask one of our Danish editors if they were any good. The Xbox 360 version of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 includes special challenges for Kinect. There's always Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4, or several other child-friendly games, out there. No matter how much they beg and cry, just stay away. Tell their grandparents to not buy it for them, just in case. And I've said it before as well: parents, don't buy this for your kids. We've seen it before, we'll see it again - big movie is released, a lazy game is launched so that parents unwittingly can buy it for their kids for the holidays. I don't blame the actual developers for any of this. With friends like these, who needs death eaters and You-Know-Whos to get you killed, eh? And sweet Hermione, how fun you look when you stand blindly firing into a wall. Good old Ron, how I love you when you run straight in front of the camera and get me killed. Add sluggish controls and a camera that seems to hate me, and you got a recipe for a total mess.ĭuring most of the levels you have your dear friends with you. Also, enemies' shots seem to easily pass through cover anyway, so I'm not sure there's a point to it at all. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1, a title I will never grow tired of typing, is a cover-based shooter where the cover mechanics are so worthless you'll be better off not using them at all - actually using them seem to be more dangerous than just rushing your enemies. Which is hard, since the gameplay lives up the licensed garbage cliche as well. I haven't seen the movie yet, and it's been a while since I read the books perhaps there is a scene where Harry mysteriously teleports from the center of London to a dragon's lair? I'll live and let live, and instead try to focus on enjoying the actual game. Sure, I can accept that - this is a movie tie-in and the people that are supposed to play this are also supposed to be familiar with the source material. How did this happen? How did I end up here? And when it's all said and done, we still sneak in through the front bloody entrance. And boom, I'm alone in a forest fighting off death eaters, or deep inside a dragon's lair that I now need to escape from. To do that we need to scout out possible routes into it and find out which is the safest. "We need to find our way into the Ministry of Magic," Hermione explains.
Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows - Part 1 does just that, and more. And then you screw it up basic storytelling 101, haphazardly connecting scenes and dialogues without any form of coherency. You pay a huge amount of money for the license, more than you'd ever consider spending on developing the actual game, and don't have to both with coming up with plotlines or anything complicated like that.
Once thing that always get to me when it comes to bad licensed game - which Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 certainly is - is how bad they usually are at telling stories.