Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - PS3, PS2Whether EA had lost faith in Harry Potter’s ability to bring in sacks full of cash on the cheap, or whether developer EA Bright Light had simply lost steam after making Harry Potter games for an entire decade, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince feels like a game that no one wanted to make.Īfter the strides the series had made with Order of the Phoenix (in the games, not in any other context), this time around Harry's school life feels boxed in by excessive minigames and hand-holding exploration. You can probably trace the decline in broomstick-related childhood fantasies exactly to this game's launch.ġ0.
It's the terrible desk job of sports games, in which you spend a tedious forever toiling over a repetitive task (scoring goals) all for the guy with the fastest car (the seeker) to take all the credit by showing up and doing a single ounce of work (grabbing the snitch and ending the game). Sadly, when it comes to actually playing the sport itself, Quidditch is an absolute mess, and Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup unfortunately proves it. Then, if we fancied it, we could at last play Quidditch - the violent aerial fantasy sport that made people like you in wizard school. Many a child wistfully eyed their boring backyard brush, desperately hoping by some miracle it would suddenly become the magical equivalent of a flying sports car. Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup - PS2At the height of Pottermania, it was hard to imagine anything cooler or more desirable than broomsticks.
The frank horror of Harry on this cover - fantastic.ġ5.
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