DolEggert

Extremely disappointing sequel after 10 years of waiting. Graphics are units are good, but that's the best thing i can say. The skirmish feels like CoH2, and especially all the promises of a 'Total War' style campaign has been completely misguiding fans. The campaign is static and linear and feels like a tutorial. It makes no sense and is a dull experience to say the leasrt. This game needs another 10 years of development to become an actual sequel

This is a direct adaptation of the boardgame experience, which is entirely a positive thing. If you liked the boardgame, you will love this game. I loved the board game experience, and the PC version is a further improvement to that experience. The heavy burden of keeping track of all the mechanics in the boardgame version, is all automated in the PC version, which for me was a way better gameplay experience so you spend your time actually playing the game, rather than tracking and setting up the game pieces. We are a group of 4 friends who lives in different areas of the country, and the PC version makes it possible for us all to play together often. There is a quite a few bugs that should be easily fixed, but especially scenario-specific game mechanics are often very bug-filled, which is why i rate 8 instead of 10.

What a dull and average experience. This must be the most linear and static version of any 'Open world game' made in the last 15 years. This game lives entirely off of the Harry Potter franchise, and is in itself a very ordinary and an outdated adventure game. The world is extremely static, like a matte painting, and reminds me of Dead Island, where a sand castle could block a truck in full speed. You can only interact with pre-selected objects and a narrow selection NPCs, that gives you extremely boring chores. Calling them 'side quests' is a huge overstatement. The story is generic, unoriginal and shallow in every way. The best part is the combat system and world design, but Hogwarts is over-interpreted and feels like Hogwarts on steroids, it's over-sized, bulky and americanized. The gameplay feels orchestrated with low immersiveness, just like an old cartoon where only the highlighted objects on a matte painting are animated. The loot system is especially ridicoulus, with gold chests placed the most ridiculous places; right on the street or directly in front of NPC's and the chest owners, who doesn't mind you robbing all of their galleons. The story is so meager a 10 year old could write a more in-depth narrative. If Avalance Software spent their money on creating depth to this game, instead of bribing youtubers to get unrealistically positive reviews, this would might've become a game worth of a release.