Harry Potter – The good

  • If you are a Harry Potter fan, you will love it
  • The graphics/scenery are “dark” like the movies have been going if you are into the dark stuff.
  • Simulatenous 2 player kinect support so you and a friend can “Magic” it up! Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows, Pt 1 kinect game reviews
  • You don’t even have to play the full game to get the kinect mini-games.

Harry Potter – The not so good

  • There are only 4 attack spells, 1 defensive spell and a water bottle, although I don’t think the movies have gone beyond this either, so it’s not really the games fault, but it’s kind of boring after awhile
  • There are 12 minigames, but each limits you to only 2 attack spells and it changes them so you can only use those specific spells during that mini-game.
  • Only xbox live action is leaderboards
  • It only took me about 20 minutes to make it through all 12

Harry Potter – Story
There is no story with the kinect portion. I would of thought EA would of mixed in the kinect portions as you play the main game, but it’s separate all together.

Harry Potter – Kinect experience
The one thing I noticed is kinect only tracks your 2 hands in this. It doesn’t care about your head or your feet. I was able to sit on the couch and cast the spells. There is also only one spell in the game that requires you to aim, and the aiming is not very accurate.

Harry Potter – Graphics
As I was saying earlier, the graphics are good, but they are all dark, as in death surrounds you. Not my forte, I only liked the first potter… Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows, Pt 1 kinect game reviews

Harry Potter – Gameplay
The minigames are all rail shooters, meaning it walks by itself and you only have cast your spells. It gives you a specific time frames to beat that minigame in, and then you get stars based on your finish time. You are then ranked with everyone else on XBL.

Harry Potter – Multiplayer options
The only multiplayer is local 2 player simulatenous, player 1 plays potter and player 2 plays Ron I think….I could only see the back of his head.

Conclusion
If you are just getting this for kinect, I would rent it, or better yet, EA could of released the kinect portion as DLC so you don’t need to spend $60 on the game. But as other sites have said, if you are true Harry Potter fan, then this game is for you. Other than that, it’s basically an HD Wii mini-game compilation because you don’t have to move your feet/head and gets very repetitive, but is beatable in about 30 minutes.


This review is based on a retail copy of the Xbox 360 version of Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows, Pt 1
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