Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince (PS3)

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Also, unlike all previous Traveller's Tales Lego video games, the Nintendo DS, PSP, Android and iOS versions have written sentences. The Official Nintendo Magazine gave the Wii and DS version 80%, saying that it was "one of the best Harry Potter games ever", however it lacked originality compared to previous Lego video games. News of the game's existence was leaked in March 2009, [17] although rumours had been circulating since late 2008. Cedric Diggory is there to help and dies when trying to escape in the last cutscene despite the fact that Cedric is killed before Voldemort's reincarnation in both the book and movie. The world is magnificently designed, with the Hogwarts Legacy map being one of our favourite things in video games ever.

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There was the novelty of the shooting gameplay and its delightful soft-lock aiming reticle, the surprise of the graphics being actually quite good, and there was a lot to like game-design-wise in the navigational “point me” spell. After three games of exciting, wondrous Hogwarts exploration (more on those later), Goblet of Fire is so painfully worse in every regard by transitioning the series to a completely different genre that it would never touch again – the dungeon crawler. Games created the label Portkey Games and expanded the series to include a pair of Lego video games. The side quests here still make for fun little detours for fans, Buckbeak handles far better than any broom has up to this point, and kids were sure to have full-blown panic attacks when the Dementors show up in puzzle rooms.Then you were all set for a glorious afternoon of fighting with your living room lights to get the camera to register the Wonderbook’s QR codes.

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K. Rowling’s series of fantasy novels set in the magical school of Hogwarts had some caring developers working on these games from the get-go. The gameplay is equally dated, with the awkward controls and difficulty spikes that plagued the early games of the first 3D generation. Deathly Hallows – Part 1 is an atrocious game, marking the moment where publisher EA decided the only logical place to take the Potter series was into cover-based shooter territory.

It is everything you would expect a wonky Xbox 360 Kinect title to be, featuring little in the way of actual gameplay, just an assortment of ways to flail around as the game struggles to do what you tell it to. Other games based around Harry Potter have been generally praised better than the novel adaptions, especially the Lego Harry Potter games.