We also need a final look at Daniel Radcliffe as Harry, Emma Watson as Hermione and Rupert Grint as Ron. Here's a case where movies can add a bit of magic. In the novel, the climactic wand-off between Harry and Voldemort is notably lacking in grandeur. Rowling, good as she is, isn't a prose stylist: The films put interesting faces to names and fabulous designs to humdrum descriptions. The opening midnight screenings of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 were completely sold out, even though most people knew the ending.
And along with millions I had to know who lived and who got Avada Kedavra'ed as Potter-ites say. OK, I was one of 'em but it was Friday, I didn't have to get up the next morning. No, it's not as momentous a day as the one in 2007, when lunatics the world over queued up at midnight to buy the last book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. After a decade of saying it, I might never have cause to say it again. The majority of the voice actors come across as overzealous Harry Potter fans attempting terrible English accents.Harry Potter. Why’s she there by herself? Where’s everybody else? Why can’t she use different spells from the teenagers she’s been teaching for nearly a decade? Who cares? Likewise, the voice work is lackluster at best.
One minute, you’ll be battling against Snape as Harry the next, you’ll be defending the bridge into Hogwarts as Professor McGonagall single-handedly. The game jumps from one cutscene to the next without any sort of narrative cohesion. Unless you’ve read the books or seen the film, you’ll be hard-pressed to understand just what the hell is going on.
You would think that this is one aspect that Deathly Hallows 2 would get right considering it’s a f%&$ing direct adaptation of the movie, but you would be underestimating just how crappy this game is. One of the most awkward shortcomings of this game is just how terribly the story is portrayed. Both the friendly and enemy NPCs still display subhuman intellect (both Ron and Hermione will wander aimlessly around the battlefield doing absolutely nothing while the 14 Death Eaters you’re up against will target you and only you) and the game’s miserable auto-lock feature makes it impossible to hit a moving target. Stupefy is your pistol, Expulso is a machine gun, Confringo is a homing missile, etc. Once again, the spells you use aren’t really spells at all they’re guns in disguise.
You spend the majority of your time squatting behind cover firing off spells at the same three Death Eater character models copy-pasted to infinity. Gameplay-wise, our review of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (opens in new tab)basically covers it: “Deathly Hallows is more or less an amateur-hour Harry Potter mod for Gears of War.” It didn’t work then and it sure as hell doesn’t work now.
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