Harry potter games reviews

This is a fitting adjustment as the 4th installment of both books and movies is one of the most significant turning points of the entire franchise, so the videogame emulating this important shift feels rightly satisfying to a large portion of the player base. This was also the first Harry Potter game to introduce multiplayer. This new feature allows you to combine forces with your friends to make even more powerful spells. Admittedly, some of the reviews were mixed.

But regardless, we feel this one has earned its place at the Hogwarts Feast. Also known as Wonderbook: Book of Spells , this augmented reality game for the PlayStation 3 uses the PlayStation Move and PlayStation Eye controllers to put you in the shoes of a Hogwarts student that's learning spells.

It uses the technology of the controllers to enable you to cast spells using the move controller and have the results appear on the screen. The game is based on the fictional book by Miranda Goshawk from the Harry Potter novels. You can choose your Hogwarts house or connect your Pottermore account to ensure the game reflects your personal style. This second installment of Harry Potter-based augmented reality comes in the form of potion-making.

The PlayStation Move controller functions as a wand as well as a knife and spoon , allowing you to create a range of potions. You will find out more about each one before you collect ingredients and brew your potions. As you may expect, this experience is every bit as gratifying as that of the Book of Spells. This game is very different from most Harry Potter video games in terms of content. Of course, it's a sports action game centered around Quidditch — the fictional sport from the wizarding world.

You can play in the Hogwarts Inter-house Quidditch cup on any of the four house teams — Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, or Slytherin. Alternatively, you can compete in the World Cup. If you prefer a quicker game, you can take part in one-off exhibition matches. Some critics say the controls are sluggish, but overall, this is far from the worst. It's definitely worth a try, just for the experience of winning a Quidditch match. Go Hufflepuff!

Go Ravenclaw! No matter what team you're cheering for, this game is definitely a keeper. Hogwarts Legacy is the newest wizarding title currently in development, and from the information released so far, it looks amazing. Players will play the role of a student at Hogwarts in the 's , being able to choose their house and their classes. It's an open-world title that includes not only Hogwarts but also the Forbidden Forest and Hogsmead, all primed for exploration.

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The three contestants representing each House are selected, Price Is Right style, at the top of the game by a flurry of letters that fly out of a fireplace and are randomly collected by a bewildered Mirren. Delightfully, the contestants represent a wide swath of ages and backgrounds, from a new Potter fan in her 20s to a longtime fan in his 70s.

The three participants in each house are allowed to commiserate on the right answers and the variety of people makes that inherently more interesting to watch. In Episode 1, the two Houses battling are Gryffindor and Hufflepuff. They play three rounds of trivia generated from a Jeopardy-esque video board that presents film clips, quotes from the films, books or other media, and even some Potter celebs asking questions. All the questions have multiple-choice options for the right answers.

That format allows for playing at home, but it would have been fun to allow the contestants a lightning round or standalone round to highlight their solo knowledge. Overall, the rounds have a variety of unexpected elements that make for interesting challenges for even the smartest players on the teams.

Harry Potter: Hogwarts Tournament of Houses. A Potter quiz show for even the smartest muggles. It never gets hung up on anything for too long but it also sits with things enough to impact you emotionally.

Presentation matters and what's front and center here is a very hearth-centric gather-round. Having most everyone back at Hogwarts, which as a cold-weather castle is designed to feel gothically soothing and comforting, makes this all feel like a festive family reunion.

A family filled with love, but also one with members who don't regularly see each other. Or even check in. Which makes it feel even more like a real family in certain ways, to be honest. Radcliffe, Watson, and Grint have an immense sibling-style love and affection for each other but were so deeply immersed in each others' lives during a decade of formative years that they've also had their fill of each other, in a way.

If that makes sense. They will always be special to one another but they also, all three of them, represent each others' past, very starkly and assuredly. We live in a world where fans dream of co-stars being best friends who are inseparable for the rest of their lives but that's rarely the case so one of the reasons these types of reunion hangs are so popular is because, well, they wrangle and herd everyone back into close proximity. As Return to Hogwarts approaches the end, we stumble into one of the best recollections of the bunch which is the awkwardness surrounding Ron and Hermione's kiss in Deathly Hallows: Part 2.

Of course, as characters, on page and on screen, they're fated to be together and many things over the years had been building to this moment, but for Grint and Watson it was immeasurably tricky.

Unlike, say, the Friends cast, where Jennifer Aniston and David Schwimmer were an on-screen couple who did fancy each other and were also just part of an HBO Max reunion where dating rumors started swirling once again , this was definitely not the case here. And the saga is sweeter for it. Their love for each other runs deep, but it's platonic and pointedly unique. Return to Hogwarts is at its best when it encapsulates the specialness of this decade-long project, and how nothing's ever been done quite like it with regards to having its young stars grow up on screen, with no recasting of the kids, for the entirety of the story.