Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 (XBox360)

36%
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 (XBox360) (2010)
genre: shooter

score: 36%

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'Even Harry, Ron and Hermione's limp-wristed spell-casting animation looks half-hearted. It's an insult to the fiction, an insult to the increasingly good films, and an insult to bad videogames.'
Read more » Eurogamer
'The game is full of good ideas tethered to a slop of bugs, but more significantly it's never much of anything. It's never varied enough to have interesting combat; it's never open enough to let you explore; it's linear but never driven enough by its narrative to be an enthralling, story-driven title.'
Read more » Video Gamer (Pro-G)
'There's potential for a good Harry Potter game underneath this pile of broken gameplay.'
Read more » IGN
'If you play the game on 360, there's a Kinect mode that consists of a series of gameplay challenges (hold out against the Death Eaters chief among them), but the implementation is awful.'
Read more » 1up.com
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'It doesn't matter if you're a hardcore or casual fan: there's no magic to be seen here.'
Read more » GamePro
'Like a Quidditch player falling from a broomstick mid-match, this installment loses all forward momentum and goes plummeting toward a faceplant at top speed.'
Read more » GameInformer
'The game definitely captures the frantic vibe of the later Potter stories, but there are still enough miscues to hold it back from doing the source material justice.'
Read more » GameTrailers
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