Saturday, July 18, 2009

A movie's game

I'm 100% disappointed by movie games. I played the latest "Harry Potter" game (torrent of course, so don't ask!), made for the upcoming movie. I can say this loud and clear, with not a bit of shame in myself: the game SUCKED! I hated what they did to the Harry Potter games ever since part four. The first three games were fine with me... I mean the characters were kids for God's sake, the engine was fit. But starting with game four, everything went to hell. Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire was the greatest disapointment: movie and game (the books were all great, nothing to comment). While the movie lacked key scenes and details, the game was a total mess. They made like a few levels you could choose from the main menu and play them one by one until you unlock them all. I hated this game. I had to use a trainer in it. The only fucking Harry Potter game I used a trainer in. Damn it! And I thought I was setting a record. In part five, I was happy to see that I could yet again roam free around the castle. Of course, the camera was crap (as it is in part six too, believe me, nothing changed), the controls suck (well, the spell controls are good, but the rest suck) and since we're talking controls, I noticed a huge problem nobody gave a damn about: neither in part five nor in six the character could jump. What the hell?! What kind of a wizard is Harry Potter if he can't jump?! The story is definetly worth a very big F. This is because they only make a resume of the story when they could put in a lot more gameplay. You can extend the story a lot in the game, it doesn't have the two hours time restriction. But NO! They shorten the story in the game and they even skip important stuff or change it! They were too fucking lazy to design anything but Hogwarts and a little scene at the Burrow (when I saw that I nearly threw my monitor out the window!). That scene fucks the whole movie/game. I mean, isn't there a lot of story already?! Why add a sensless battle at The Burrow?! They can't burn it down! It's an important location for part 7, which I sense it would suck more than this one did. For this game, I would have expected a bit more gameplay at the memories scenes (like a walk in the forest or some spell casting or something) and way more action at that cave Harry goes to with Dumbledore. Also, they didn't do Diagon Alley nearly at all! Where are the stores?! Where is Gringotts?! No, they just showed the stupid shop... where a ritual takes place! They completely changed the story! This is supposed to be an action-adventure game! But the game has completely no action (except the fact that you have to collect some stupid crests to finish the game 100%). The graphics sucked even if I set all options to maximum. They tried to put the actual faces on characters to make them look more real. Well, it obviously didn't work. So, EA Games guys, quit your jobs and go take a walk!
So, my final marks for these loads of rubbish (so I wouldn't call them different) are:
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: 2/10 because the crappy levels, because you took away my only pleasure in the Harry Potter games - wandering through Hogwarts. And because it's far too fucking difficult!
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: 5/10 because the stupid controls, vague story telling, crappy graphics, no action, too easy to play (just look at those duels!)
- Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince: 4/10 because they added some story parts and made the whole story look stupidly simple instead of concentrating on the events in the book. I have a lot of points to express, but I'll keep them until further notice. Also, too few locations. The game is poor. It's obviously commercial crap, not intended to please fans but to irritate them.

Overall deduction: These are commercial games made for the purely purpose of getting money out of them. Had they thought about the fans they would have worked harder.

Future expectations: I think this applies for the movie too, so that part 7 will be better. Instead of adding stupid scenes like the battle at The Burrow that do not exist in the book, CONCENTRATE ON THE EVENTS THAT ACTUALLY HAPPEN IN THE BOOK! THAT IS YOUR SOURCE, PEOPLE! SO FIRE THE SCRIPT WRITER AND GET TO WORK! WE WANT TO SEE SOME REAL HARRY POTTER OUT THERE!