The Harry Potter franchise is nearing an end, with the release of the last two movies in the series. The books still continue to be bestsellers but the movies' performance is continuing to decline with every new movie. Realizing this, Warner Bros. decided to milk the maximum possible money out of the last remaining movie, and for this reason, the last movie is being released in two parts. Following the movies, the video game franchise also obliged and is releasing the last game Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows in two parts. The first part was released recently, and it came out amidst much hype and fanfare.
If the movies' performance was just about average, the games' performance has been steadily declining. The last game got about mixed reviews from critics and fans alike, and the interest in Deathly Hallows rose when the developers announced that the game play was being changed drastically. Sadly, it is the game play which is the biggest let down of this game. Up until Half-Blood Prince, the game play involved Harry's adventures in and around Hogwarts. But In the last game, Harry doesn't go to school at all, following the original plot of the book.Instead, he and his best friends, Ron and Hermione, go around hunting for Voldermort's Horcruxes......wait a minute, why do I need to explain the plot when it's already famous all over the world?!
Talking about the game, there is a lot more action involved compared to the previous game but that doesn't mean that it is a lot of fun. Most of the time, Harry is forced to take cover from the enemy's onslaught, and although Harry has a wide assortment of spells to choose from, aiming the spells from behind cover can get a bit annoying thanks to the shoddy camera angles.
Then there are the subplots. Rescuing Muggles and stealth missions do not make the game play any exciting, and it only makes you wish that there wasn't this unnecessary filler present in the game. The visualizations aren't much to praise either, and the characters appear all mouldy and strange. Perhaps the only saving grace for this game is present for the XBox 360 version, in the form of Kinect extra missions. These are a bit more fun to play than the main game, because you get the feel of casting the spells yourself, but this fun is short-lived and you remember that this wasn't worth playing the whole game for.
So stay clear of this game and buy it only if you're an avid collector! Better yet, use watch the movie when it releases on the 19th, which, hopefully, will be better.
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