

Game Components: The rule book includes areas to hold instructions once you start opening the boxes up. Players achieve their goals through some pretty standard deck building mechanisms and combating villains with spells, items, and companions along the way. They span the years of Harry Potter learning at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, meanwhile encountering the likes of various villains and one particular villain who-should-not-be-named. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle (hereafter just Hogwarts Battle) takes players on a journey through the seven films adapted from the books. Hogwarts Battle plays best with 4 consistent players. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle is a cooperative deck building game for 2 – 4 players that, depending on which game you’re playing, could take 30 minutes, or well over 90 minutes. If a decent movie to game can ever be, pardon the pun, “in the cards” for Harry Potter fans, would USAopoly, a company more familiar with localized Monopoly reprints be the one to do it? Pessimism abounded in the zeitgeist about the content and, more importantly, playability of the game. Fans of a certain teenage wizard could be heard giving a collective shudder of trepidation when the announcement of a Harry Potter card game hit the gaming scene.
