With the final installment of the much lauded Harry Potter series now in theaters, gamers are again treated to another licensed game. Another unreasonably awful, obnoxiously bad game. EA Brigh♉t Light seems to have truly outdone itself this time. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 is a soulless monstrosity that could only have been birthed from the darkest of incantations.

Gameplay-wise, our review of澳🌳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallow𒀰s Part 1basically 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. 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. Once again, the spells you use aren’t really spells at all; they’re guns in disguise. Stupefy is your pistol, ꧂Expulso is a machine gun, ﷽Confringo is a homing missile, etc. 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.

One of the most awkward shortcomings of this game is just how terribly the story is portrayed. 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 gꦏame is. Unless you’ve read the books or seen the film, you’ll be hard-pressed to understand just what the hell is goi﷽ng on. The game jumps from one cutscene to the next without any sort of narrative cohesion. 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. 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. The majority of the voice actors come across as overzealous Harry Potter fans attempting terrible English accents.

Above: “Stupid! Err....Stupefy!”