LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 Review

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(More customer reviews)I loved this game so much. But buying it as a mac port was a really bad choice. There are so many bugs and it runs slow and crashes easily. The game is great but save yourself some frustration and just get it on a console. I played the xbox 360 version on my boyfriend's xbox and it is a much more enjoyable experience but has still crashed on two-player mode. But that is another product review. Anyways, beware this product is buggy.
* Slow moving characters
* Color distortions: blue water looks black, Hermione's pink lips look blue, the invisibility cloak is not invisible in cut scenes but just looks like Harry is wearing an opaque black cloak.
There are probably more color distortions that weren't so obvious that I missed.
* Crashes. Just stops in the middle of the level and due to the fact that it is an auto-save game, you lose everything that you've done since the last auto-save.

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Connect the bricks from Privet Drive to the Triwizard Tournament and experience the magic and adventure of Harry Potter and his friends in the first four stories - LEGO style! Cast spells, make potions and discover a fantastical world in this humorous action adventure game for the whole family. You'll join Harry, Ron, Hermione and other favorite characters at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to learn the arts of magic and explore Diagon Alley, Hogsmeade, the Forbidden Forest and other enchanted locations. Beautifully detailed environments, tongue-in-cheek humor and learning are all hallmarks of LEGO video games, served up here with lashings of broomsticks and screeching mandrake roots!

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 Review

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(More customer reviews)When I ordered this in the mail, I was expecting a Harry Potter game much like the 6th one with even better controls. The spells in the Half Blood Prince game have you move the Wii remote like a wand, so duels get very intense. Gameplay was fun and interesting. The first thing you do in this game is learn the controls by fending off Deatheaters while with Hagrid on the motorbike. In this game, you press B to shoot the spells which already brings the fun factor down. You move Harry with the nunchuck but control the camera with the remote which makes moving and casting spells difficult. The graphics in this game are worse than the previous one, Hermione looks like Ginny and Ron is oddly blurry. The actual game is more like a series of cut scenes intermingled with minigame-ish "adventures". Instead of having different "wand" movements to change spells, you must go on a spell wheel, which takes away from the game because it pauses to let to you choose a spell. The controls are not intuitive and hard to use. I haven't finished the game yet but I am already getting a headache and I am very bored so far. No where near as good the previous game or even Lego years 1-4, both of which I highly recommend. Hope this helps, and hopefully it will get better.


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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 Review

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(More customer reviews)While videos were being released for this game, I'm sure others like myself were excited to see the Harry Potter game getting a reboot of sorts with intense battles, improved graphics, and more exploring. Sadly, that's not what turned out.
I'm not sure where to start, but I'm going to list what I can to prevent any big Harry Potter fan from grabbing the worst Harry Potter game to come out thus far.
Graphics: the graphics are probably some of the best so far, but can be ruined by a filter that gets put over the screen during darker parts of the game. Now the offset of the great graphics, are the fact that it seems the developers felt they put enough work in to a few environments to not make anymore and just recycle them. Which takes me to the next part:
Environments: While many of the environments look nice, and have interesting paths to run around, you're often made to go through the same environments over and over again doing very similar missions. You'll soon get sick of the enviornments being forced to go through them over and over.
Battle Mechanics: So the big appeal of the trailers were the intense battles. It's not as exciting as it looks. Although you unlock several spells throughout the game, you'll fair just fine using the same one the entire time, making the appeal of other spells minimal. One of the best spells is the Cunfringo(sp?) spell which allows you to shoot an explosion of sorts.
Dodging Mechanis: During battles you are able to hide behind objects which is sort of useful. It can be hard to unhide yourself, lock on to your target, fire your spell, and hide yourself again without getting hit with many spells. Even if this does workout succesfully, the snatchers and death appears can apparate (Appear) anywhere, even right behind you, so hiding doesn't do much good.
The missions: While you'll have fun with the main plotline, it's broken up frequently with a set of three un-related to the quest missions you must complete before you can continue the plotline. This feels awkward, out of place, and ruins the story line. Now this wouldn't be a terrible thing, but each 3-mission section consist of the same 3 objections in different scenary. The 3 are: 1) Hide under your invisibility cloak while sneaky right next to death eaters and snatchers to free muggle-borns. This is often frustrating as bumping in to anyone results in your cloak coming off and being fired at, instead of a simple "What hit me?" And if you fail, even after releasing 5 of 6 muggle-borns, you'll have to start from the begining again. Tedius, and boring. 2) Releasing muggle-borns while being confronted with enemies to defeat. This is really the only fun of the 3 missions. 3) Survive several waves of bad guys until they stop appearing and that mission is over.
All 3 pretty basic, and pretty boring and tedius.
My rating of 2 stars is only as a Harry Potter fan, otherwise I would give it 1/5 stars. Although the 5th and 6th video games were less than amazing, they are better than this game in my opinion.

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