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Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince (XBOX 360)

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RRP $69.95     Save $6.00
$63.95
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Genre Action Adventure
Platform XBOX 360
Release Date 02/07/2009
Rated Parental Guidance Recommended

Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince (XBOX 360) Product Information

Summon the wizard within you. In the game of Harry Potter and The Half-harry potter and the half blood prince xbox 360 screenshotBlood Prince™, players return to Hogwarts™ to help Harry survive a fraught sixth year. Engage in exciting wizard duels, mix, and brew magical ingredients in Potions class and take to the air to lead the Gryffindor™ Quidditch™ team to victory. You may even get sidetracked by Ron's romantic entanglements as you journey towards a dramatic climax and discover the identity of the Half-Blood Prince.

Features:

  • Compete as Gryffindor for the Hogwarts Quidditch Cup: Take on Hufflepuff™, Ravenclaw™, and Slytherin™ in the most exciting wizarding sport.
  • Perfect your Quidditch skills: Can you dodge a Bludger or can you catch the Snitch?
  • Take part in thrilling wizard duels: Battle against Death Eaters in Hogwarts, Inferi in the Horcrux cave, and much more.
  • Join the Gryffindor Duelling Club: Perfect your duelling skills before you take on the other houses. Will you become the Duelling Club champion?
  • Create magical potions with Professor Slughorn: Use the Half-Blood Prince's Potions book and create magical potions.
    Explore Hogwarts at night: Take on night-time missions while the castle sleeps.
  • Stuck?: Call on Nearly Headless Nick™ for clues and tips to help you complete your challenges.
  • Relive the action of the movie: Experience the Hogwarts Express to the dramatic revelation of the Half-Blood Prince.
  • See more of the wizarding world: Explore new magical places like The Burrow, and the Horcrux cave.
  • Uncover the truth: Travel with Dumbledore to piece together Voldermort's past, and sneak around Hogwarts to discover Malfoy's secrets.

Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince (XBOX 360) Review

If you're interested in this title, chances are that you've already read the harry potter and the half blood prince xbox 360 screenshotbooks and are awaiting the movie. Still, I'll do my best to summarize what's up this time around: Harry, Ron, and Hermione are back for their sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, everyone's abuzz about the latest happenings in the world of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, and Draco is up to no good. Sure, that sounds like every Harry Potter story, but this time things are really bad.

If you've read the books, you know what those bad things are, and if you haven't, this game really isn't going to explain what's going on. See, rather than have you play through the events of the movie, Half-Blood Prince just kind of uses them as touchstones. Sure, you'll participate in the big battles and see videogame cutscenes depicting key moments, but these events won't really be properly explained nor will they carry the appropriate impact. You're not here to play the movie; you're here to live in the movie's universe.

Making potions is probably the most inventive mini-game in the title and gives you 16 brews to create in your trusty caldron. While most of the game is played from a third-person perspective, potions put you into a first-person mode... with invisible hands. See, icons pop up on the left side of the screenharry potter and the half blood prince xbox 360 screenshot and you choose the corresponding ingredient with your on-screen cursor. You'll grab a beaker, move it to the pot, and pour it in. All of this is done with your controller's joystick (left to select the ingredient and right to move it).
Another nice addition this time around is flight. In Half-Blood Prince, Harry's the captain of the Quidditch team, and as such, you're going to need to log some time on your broom. Rather than give you free rein over the world, flight is very controlled here. You're chasing the snitch and the camera is always heading in whatever direction the gold ball is. This means you're not really controlling where you're going, but you're controlling where on the screen you are -- left, right, up, down.

Just like Order of the Phoenix, exploration is a humongous part of this game. The story-related stuff can be polished off in about four or five hours, but there's going to be a lot left to do for Harry Potter nuts or people who are Trophy/Achievement whores (see: me). See, the game has 150 Hogwarts crests hidden throughout the school. Now, 125 of those are stuck on walls, tangled in bushes, and so on, but the other 25 need to be earned. You'll be walking around a hallway, see a lantern or bird with a rainbow-like glow around it, and need to wave your wand at it to get some mini-crests to fall. When you collect these mini-crests, a meter fills.

If you know nothing about the story found in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, this game is not the place to start because it glosses over the facts and emotions of the real story. However, if you're looking to pick up your broomstick and take Hogwarts by storm, this title should find its way into your library. It's not groundbreaking and it's not the most engaging experience in the world, but there is something fun about dropping worms into a cauldron and desperately looking for 150 hidden crests.
Potter fans shouldn't be disappointed if they're looking to kill a few hours in the house that Dumbledore built.

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