Review | Magic new Harry Potter AR game from Pokemon Go creators: Wizards Unite – first impressions
- Harry Potter: Wizards Unite lets you cast spells at magical creatures from the comfort of your own desk
- A few glitches and an uncertain story aside, this mobile AR game is a winner for Harry Potter fans
Casting magic in the real world is something that Harry Potter fans can only dream about. At least, until now.
Released over the weekend by Niantic – the same video game developer that gave us Pokemon Go in 2016 – Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is the latest augmented reality (AR) title for mobile phones running on Android and iOS.
Just as you can catch different Pokemons in your neighbourhood, here, as a newbie wizard, you can zap spells at all sorts of fantastic creatures at your desk.
There is a lot more you can do – and collect – here, but is this a worthy follow up to the phenomenal Pokemon Go?
After downloading the game, you go through a series of simple tutorials on how the game works – some voiced by an actor who sounds spookily like Daniel Radcliffe who played the boy wizard on the big screen – before joining the Statute of Secrecy Task Force, which I assume is where grown-up Harry Potter works now.
