Comments on: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Wii review

By: TC

TC — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 21:23:56 +0000

trust me the game mat suck
but the movie sucks worse than any of the previous movies
it is way short of the book

By: Stephen Greenwell

Stephen Greenwell — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:53:01 +0000

Does the game depart from the movie plot?

No. See previous sentence I quoted.

Is the emotion of Dumbledore dying in the end properly represented in the game? is it there at all? These are selling points that you have not hit upon.

Both are spoilers, so I wouldn’t include either in a review.

Hogwarts design, re: But what about in HBP?

Yes, it is faithfully recreated. Again, a sentence from my review that I quoted in my previous comment reply to you: [HBP] follows the source material so faithfully that it makes no attempts to really excel past it.

By: draco malfoy

draco malfoy — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:31:19 +0000

Yeah, but you aren’t saying anything regarding how the game actually plays, we did those things in prior installments for the most part. Does the game depart from the movie plot? Is the emotion of Dumbledore dying in the end properly represented in the game? is it there at all? These are selling points that you have not hit upon.

in Order of the Phoenix, Hogwarts was built in-game using blue prints lent to EA from Warner Bros, and every last freakin’ detail was accounted for, it was amazing. But what about in HBP?

By: Stephen Greenwell

Stephen Greenwell — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 21:45:48 +0000

This is somewhat true, but things have improved a little from the dark days of NES and SNES gaming. You don’t have ridiculously bad, utter dreck like Home Alone and Back to the Future, just lots of mediocre crap.

By: Stephen Greenwell

Stephen Greenwell — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 21:43:57 +0000

Draco, I addressed your first two questions in the body of my review. From paragraphs four and five:

Wander around Hogwarts and cast spells by shaking the Wii-mote like a wand! Fly around on a broom from time-to-time! Mix liquids in a cauldron to create spells and magic! Duel with other wizards and friends in a two-player mode! Donâ€™t get me wrong, these things donâ€™t totally suck.

From the third-to-last paragraph:

As a member of the Harry Potter universe, the Wii version of The Half-Blood Prince reminds me of a paint-by-numbers coloring book. It follows the source material so faithfully that it makes no attempts to really excel past it.

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As far as the voice acting goes, none of the lead actors lend their voice.

By: Draco Malfoy

Draco Malfoy — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 21:04:00 +0000

What about the game itself? What do you do in the game? How does the story progress? Do the stars from the films lend their voices to the game? Please please please give us anything more than rash statements hating on the wizardry!

Dont review a game without proper background knowledge, i mean right?

You say “only if you’re a diehard Potter fan” well news flash, there are hundreds of millions of us!!

By: school of screaming debt

school of screaming debt — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 11:31:30 +0000

Unfortunately with todays movie franchises turned game, 9 out of 10 are utter crap. They take advantage of the fans that loved the book/movie & by the time the fan has realized they got screwed on the deal its too late.