AdammLittle Posted December 3, 2010 Share Posted December 3, 2010 Im a bit of a Achievement whore.. wondering if this game is worth a buy for the achievements without the Kinect system? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoony Bard Posted December 3, 2010 Share Posted December 3, 2010 The game can be beaten on a rental and there's very little replay value unless you're into competing on the Leaderboards. Especially since you don't have Kinect, I'd recommend renting it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CyanideSpirit Posted December 11, 2010 Share Posted December 11, 2010 I think its worth a buy , it was fun to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
undeadjubbie Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 This is a typical movie game.....(bad graphics, camera issues, stupid AI) my second time around is just a bad as the first play through. Normal and Hard are fairly similar and might as well be easy....and the kinect games are awful I regret ever playing this game for the achievements Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angelus0901 Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 The game is fun but too short. I always forget that it's only Part 1... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wozza1971 Posted March 1, 2011 Share Posted March 1, 2011 this game got slagged off in the mags but i kinda liked the previous games is this any good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivanich E Ringpiece Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 After reading the posts, I am now in two minds as to buy this game... Should I rent it just for the cheevo's? Or should I buy and let the family play too... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IVI4V3R1CK Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 I would rent the game, unless you have a Harry Potter collection going, then I would wait until the prices drop (as the secondhand market will be flooded with this game). Ultimately, without Kinect you can only get 915 of the 1000, and the game itself has some major issues. Besides the covering mechanic being broken (I can cover behind one rock but not another, and both get me shot regardless), and the lack of time actually put into the game (come on, there are only a total of what, 6 character models for enemies including the spiders) it just shows that they are banking off the movies success. They even screwed around with some of the plot points in the film to make it flow better with the game. So if you're looking for the achievements, I would rent it. I found a copy at my local library and I had it for only a few days and only have a handful of achievements left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anazoth Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 I wouldn't recommend this game at all, it is nothing like the previous titles. You go through the whole game tapping (A) and there is only about a half an hour of story related gameplay. It is full of these stupid minigames of killing people. Horrible game and i do not recommend it to anyone, i am a bit of an achievement whore and will play it to the end though, trying to bring myself round to finishing it lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dale Norris Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 dont think i will bother getting it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anazoth Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 I didn't like this game at all, it is nothing like the previous harry potters and barely follows the storyline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azurebAt Posted April 13, 2011 Share Posted April 13, 2011 I didn't like this game at all, it is nothing like the previous harry potters and barely follows the storyline. What he said... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarNev3rChanges Posted April 17, 2011 Share Posted April 17, 2011 i love the things i've read here in this thread alone. you guys are hilarious. seriously. this was an impulse buy for my girlfriend while we were in gamestop. she's yelling at it right now ("i don't get this stupid thing." "where am i supposed to go?"). so i'm enjoying it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AwesomeBigBear Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 Is it fun to play on the kinect? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DannyBoi321 Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 I personally prefer the previous harry potter games as they are longer and you can roam around but if you just want it for the achievements then I would recommend renting it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgtmcfee101 Posted May 31, 2011 Share Posted May 31, 2011 I was pretty disappointed with this game considering the rest of the series. Maybe I didn't give it enough of a chance but I was thoroughly upset about halfway through and moved onto another game. Since I bought it, maybe I will give it another chance sometime and it may change my tune, but for now, I've got better things to play i.e. L.A. Noire!!! Definitely a rental game, that's the route I wished I had taken instead of wasting my money, but I got caught up in the " for the Kinect" drama of it (which is not as good as it would seem, carpal tunnel here we come, snapping of the wrists...) Love HP though, fabulous stories and wonderfully adapted films. Thanks J.K. Rowling for a wonderful creation! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceskater101 Posted May 31, 2011 Share Posted May 31, 2011 I would say rent it just b/c there is little replay. I bought the Harry Potter and the order of the phoenix and it was okay.. but there wasn't any reason I wanted to replay this game so there is no point if you want the achievements just rent it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sampson Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 For me it was a rent. The game was really short and really easy. Easy achievements and an easy game overall. Once you beat it, that's it. There is no replay value at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadow9 Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 personally im finding this game really hard to get into. the collectibles are easy to find and there isnt much of a challenge when fighting. all in all not one of my better buys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colby Posted July 25, 2011 Share Posted July 25, 2011 Just about to get this but cuz of the bad comments from the above no longer getting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BADFELLA Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 this game is really bad nothing on the first games its like a fps wand game very boring only get wen very cheap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaslam2 Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 I think it is worth a buy. The kinect feature is quite cool for friends and family. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hafhead Posted November 8, 2011 Share Posted November 8, 2011 i love the things i've read here in this thread alone. you guys are hilarious. seriously. this was an impulse buy for my girlfriend while we were in gamestop. she's yelling at it right now ("i don't get this stupid thing." "where am i supposed to go?"). so i'm enjoying it... Yeah, this is dead on. There is a spell that tells you where to go by shooting out a little light trail to follow. But it randomly does or doesn't work, and sometimes actively leads you to the wrong place. Harry has a health level, but there is no visible meter. The only way you know that you are hurt is that the screen goes black and white when you are down to something like 5%. This often means that the next hit will kill you, but it is probably do late to do anything about it. Oh, and most of the levels are pretty gray to begin with so it's hard to be sure when the screen changes. You heal by standing around doing nothing... but how long does it take? There's no way to know. The camera is atrocious: - It is positioned at mid-chest height, right behind Harry. So much of the time you can't actually see where you are going or what you are shooting at because Harry's back is filling too much of the screen. - If you move the camera up to look over Harry's shoulder, it constantly tries to move back down. You have to wrangle it constantly just to walk around without catching on rocks and stumps. This is difficult under the best of circumstances, and physically difficult to do while holding the A button to run. - At maximum sensitivity, Harry turns way too slowly to react to the enemies around you. There is a zoom feature that on completely random occasions will decide to zoom in really closely on something halfway across the map, although most of the time it just gives about a 10% zoom. The same button is used for locking on to targets. So in the heat of battle you are suddenly studying the texture on a pillar in the distance when you wanted to target the guy standing 10 feet away. As stated by someone else here, the cover system doesn't work very well. Even if you find something that will let you take cover on it- don't! If you get close to an object, enemy spells go right through it. Just stand back where it can't get you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ANTONlO172 Posted July 12, 2014 Share Posted July 12, 2014 yeah great game! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstgear Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 kinect is fun but some problems with overall game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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