Niantic has a certified hit on its hands with Pokémon GO . Naysayers will cite the Adventure game money guide's stability problems at launch, or say cheeky things like "people still play this game?," but no one can deny the phenomenon of that magical summer in 2016 when everyone under the age of 40 was stampeding like crazed herds of Tauros in pursuit of digital critters. Even today, the game makes more money than every other Pokémon mobile game combined. So, it makes sense that Warner Bros. handed Niantic the reins to the Wizarding World's first AR mobile venture, Harry Potter: Wizards Uni

Buckle Up is handy for spotting survivors in trouble and healing them will reveal where the killer is for a few seconds. But his ultimate ability, Mettle of Man, triggers whenever he receives three Protection Hit Score Events. Whenever he reaches full health, he is immediately visible to the killer, thus incentivizing playing injured or willingly acting as b

Harry Potter: Wizards Unite has just released, much to the delight of many Harry Potter fans. The game is made by Niantic, the same people who made Pokémon GO. The two games function in similar ways in that they both use mostly the same locations to gather supplies and participate in battles. They both also encourage collecting items and exploring the world around you through walk

She can become the killer’s obsession by looking in the killer’s direction which also reveals her aura. Her final ability Decisive Strike is strong as it allows her to escape the killer immediately and stun them for five seconds after a successful skill check, but it's only available if she’s been unhooked recently. Basically everyone needs to be dead, she can't ever look at the killer, and she needs to first escape a hook (by herself) to escape the kil

Ingress is Niantic's first game, and it actually became a sort of audition for Pokémon GO . The story of Ingress is that creatures are appearing through portals opening in the real world. Players use their GPS to track down the portals. Portals are fixed into real-world locations and there are te

Therein lies the long-term issue for Harry Potter: Wizards Unite. Whereas Pokémon GO gives players exactly what they have dreamed of in an AR game, Wizards Unite gives players nothing remotely similar to the Harry Potter unive

Feng Min abilities aren’t necessarily bad, but it’s just that other survivors are much better suited to performing the tasks her abilities were meant for. Technician makes repairing generators much quieter and cancels out any failed attem

If one were to ask different people what they would do at a place like Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, they would probably get different answers from everyone. Some would say learning magic, others might focus on herbology and brewing potions, some will demand to play Quidditch all day long, others would ditch the school and set out to be a dragon tamer with Charlie Weasley, while others would say no thank you to any of that excitement and apply for a job at Gringotts Wizarding B

Meanwhile, Harry Potter: Wizards Unite fails in this area for two reasons. First, when the game first launched, it was incredibly restrictive with Spell Energy, which is the basic unit needed to perform most actions in the game, similar to Pokéba

But even though the concept of the game itself is pretty simple, there are a lot of mechanics to the game that take some practice, such as the skill checks required to repair generators. And if we dig even deeper, there's a lot that can be done in the game that players actually have no idea ab

Another item you can get through the treasure chests (or through the bloodweb, as with the medical and tool kits) is a flashlight. If you point it directly in the killer's eyes, it will stun them and if they're trying to carry someone to a hook, they will be forced to drop them. It's a risky move, since you have to go straight into the killer's line of vision, but it's a brilliant teammate rescue if you can pull it off. And it'll definitely annoy the kil

Now in general, Wizards Unite has customization pretty much handled. However, the game is dropping the ball in one major area—your avatar. In Pokémon Go , your avatar is the only source of character customization and can take on many different looks. The avatar can be seen running across the map, the player menu, and is shown to friends. The avatar in Wizards Unite in comparison is a humanoid blob bearing the color of your chosen Hogwarts ho

This new information leaves some wondering if Wizards Unite will be more than similar to Pokémon GO . Perhaps it could be a straight-up copy. Would Niantic really be so bold as to put out the same game with a pointy hat on it? Let's break down what we k

The bulk of Wizards Unite 's gameplay seems to revolve around things called "Foundables." These are defined by the game's official website as "artefacts, creatures, people, and even memories" that are for some reason appearing in the Muggle world, aka our reality. Players are part of a special Ministry Of Magic task force on a mission to track down these Foundables and return them to the Wizarding Wo