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Act 1

Mission 1 S.S.D.D.
#1 On the table across the yard from the entrance to ‘The Pit’.

Mission 2 Team Player
#1 In the a room to the right of you after you hear one of your squadmates say ‘I think I saw one run into that classroom’.
#2 On a crate directly in front of you as you exit the school.

Mission 3 Cliffhanger
#1 On the elevated platform connected to the tower at the right of the base entrance.
#2 In the hanger next to the one you enter with Soap to grab the ACS module. Go into the building with Soap and then, before grabbing the ACS, go back outside and break the window to grab the Enemy Intel.
#3 In a clearing to the right of the route you take on the snowmobiles. Look for the fence nearby. Running over it obtains the piece of Intel.

Mission 5 Takedown
#1 On a table in a house toward the rear of the large area where you clear out a group of enemies on your way to grab Rojas.
#2 On a table in a room teeming with enemies in a house as you climb up the hillside to catch Rojas.
#3 When leaving room that had the Intel #2 in, take a left to a gray house with stairs going up and you’ll find this one in it.
#4 The red-brick house to the right of the burning green car, head inside then to the right is stairs going down, take them and turn to your right. You will spot this one between the two beds.

Act 2

Mission 6 Wolverines
#1 On the counter inside the gas station convenience store.
#2 When going to take over Burger Town, head to the left side of the building, a small red-brick lookin shack will be holding the trash-can that holds the next Intel.
#3 This next one can be found across from “Nates Sports Bar and Grill” in the “CBR Financial” when you enter from the right side of the building. Head forward until you reach the front, go down the middle aisle until you reach the “Foreign Exchange” counter. Turn to your right and the Intel will be on the desk marked “Online Banking”.
#4 On a table inside Taco To-Go

Mission 7 The Hornets Nest
#1 In the house at the far end of a courtyard with a car parked inside a garage near where you begin the mission across from the tower.
#2 Inside a small shack located on the left side, near the the bottom of a stairway, in a large area filled with dilapidated cars as you make your way to the LZ.
#3 Go inside “Pelayo’s Sorveteria E Lanchonete” store, head all the way upstairs, take a right through the door than another right to run through the small hallway. At the end of the hallway take another right through a door that holds two beds, take the stairs up and the Intel will be on the table to your left.
#4 In a window behind one of the soccer nets.

Mission 8 Exodus
#1 On the desk inside the Garden Villas Apartment Homes office.
#2 On a table inside the Arcadia Security Services hut.
#3 In the upstairs of the second house on the right after crossing the first covered bridge.

Mission 9 The Only Easy Day…Was Yesterday
#1 On the shelves to the left right after you are informed of the ‘enemy helo’, near the level 1 exit.
#2 On the shelves in the room near the fuel containers immediately after you defeat the enemies with the ‘Plan B’ explosion.
#3 After taking down the helicopter, and moving on to the next area where you’ll have to split up and take the stairs going up. The next Intel will right under the stairs as soon as you go down in the storage area.

Mission 10 Gulag
#1 In a room that’s up a set of stairs as you’re making your way inside the prison. Near where you first slide in.
#2 In the main observation tower right behind the bank of computer monitors where Ghost sets up to help you find Prisoner #627.
#3 In a cell along the wall to the right immediately after you cross the bridge from the armory to the next cell block.
#4 On a table in the room where you find Prisoner #627. It can only be picked up after he has been rescued and you’re making a run for it.

Mission 11 Of Their Own Accord
#1 In the elevator with the door that continuously opens and closes. Crouch to get inside.
#2 In the room next to the photocopy machine where the enemy peeks out near the first SAM site. Kill the enemy to make him fall out and reveal the intel.

Act 3

Mission 12 Contingency
#1 Keep to the left and take out anyone that comes your way, stay to the left of the long pipe and you’ll soon spot a parachute in the area where you avoid the patrols searching for you.
#2 On a table inside the building with the number 33 printed on its side.
#3 Take to the left tell you reach stairs that will lead you up to the helipad, the next Intel will be behind the crates as soon as you reach the top.

Mission 14 Whisky Hotel
#1 On a black couch immediately to the left after exiting the Oval Office.
#2 Climb up the stairs where you have “30 seconds” to set green flares, enter the room and to the right of you will be sitting the next Intel.

Mission 15 Loose Ends
#1 On a crate next to the boathouse near the lake
#2 In the basement weapons cache of the estate.
#3 In the room upstairs overlooking the enemy jeeps.

Mission 16 The Enemy of My Enemy
#1 In the cockpit of the plane next to where you start the mission.
#2 Inside the wreckage of a jumbo jet near the jeep Price picks you up in.

Mission 17 Just Like Old Times
#1 On a crate in the first cave straight past the smoking guard.
#2 On a box in an alcove to the left of the cave exit when the guards with laser sights appear.
#3 On a box to the right of where the enemy soldiers ambush you with smoke.
#4 On the table across from the door override controls with the soda cans on it.

Mission 17 Endgame
#1 On top of the crate that sits on the dock next to the inflatable boat.
And that’s all the intel you’ll need.

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From the very start of the mission, run forward until you see the crosses or about 4-5 seconds in. Go to the right side against the fence and go prone. You have to do this fast so the guards do not see you that are advancing toward your beginning position. Just stay prone until 4 guards go by. You can crawl to a better position to view the advancing guards if you need to. You can get up and continue to the right after the forth guard passes but stay along the fence. You want to run now and will go under a pipeline. If you stop and look to the left where the pipeline goes you will see a couple guards, but just ignore them. Move slowly and continue to the right and soon you will come to a guard and their dog that will come up the path to the left. If you run then you will not see the guard. There will be another path to the left with two guards on the far side of it. Ignore this path and continue a few more steps to get beside a tree in the middle of your current path. From this tree position, you will be able to snipe those two guards. Before rushing onward, make sure to take out the guard and his dog in a small clearing to the left. You will have to advance a little along the fence for a clear shot. Once that is taken care of you can now continue on past the two guards you just sniped. Go prone a couple steps ahead of them. This will be a small clearing. A patrol consisting of 3 guards and two dogs will go by. Slowly follow after the last guard, but make sure you keep your distance or risk them seeing you. After a little ways down the path, there will be one guard and a dog stopped just past the pipeline but on the path. Wait for them to leave before moving ahead. After a couple more steps, go prone and wait for the another guard and his dog to leave as well but stay close to the pipeline. There will be a guard walking to your left as well going toward where you have come from. Once those guards leave the area, crouch down and sneak up the bank of snow go underneath the large pipe-line. Once you move ahead enough following the pipeline, you should see two guards at the top of the hill in front of you just after the pipeline turns to your right. Quickly snipe them and head up the hill to their position. Once on top of this hill you will see your green smoke and can quickly slide down the other side to complete the mission.

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Harry Potter and the deathly hallows

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Harry Potter and the Deathly HallowsFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, search

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"HP7" redirects here. For the postal district for Amersham, see HP postcode area.

This article is about the novel. For the film, see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (film). For the video game, see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (video game). For the soundtrack, see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (soundtrack).

Harry Potter books

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows



Author J. K. Rowling

Illustrators Jason Cockcroft (Bloomsbury)

Mary GrandPré (Scholastic)

Genre Fantasy

Publishers Bloomsbury (UK)

Arthur A. Levine/

Scholastic (US)

Raincoast (Canada)

Released July 21, 2007 (2007-07-21)

Book no. Seven

Sales 44 million (worldwide)[1]

Chapters 37 (counting the epilogue)

Pages 607 (UK)

759 (US)

ISBN 0545010225

Preceded by Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince



Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is the seventh and final of the Harry Potter novels written by British author J. K. Rowling. The book was released on 21 July 2007 by Bloomsbury Publishing in the United Kingdom, in the United States by Scholastic, and in Canada by Raincoast Books, ending the series that began in 1997 with the publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. The novel chronicles the events directly following Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2005), and the final confrontation between the wizards Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort.



Rowling finished writing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in January 2007. Before its release, Bloomsbury reportedly spent GB£10 million to keep the book's contents safe before its release date. American pulisher Arthur Levine refused any copies of the novel to be released in advance for press review, although two reviews were submitted early. Shortly before release, photos of all 759 pages of the U.S. edition were leaked and transcribed, leading Scholastic to look for the source that had leaked it.



Released globally in 93 countries, Deathly Hallows broke sales records as the fastest-selling book ever. It sold 15 million copies in the first 24 hours following its release, including more than 11 million in the U.S. and UK alone. The previous record, 9 million in its first day, had been held by Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. The novel has also been translated into over 120 languages, including Ukrainian, Swedish, and Hindi.



Major themes in the novel are death and living in a corrupted society, and critics have compared them to Christian allegories. Generally well-received, the book won the 2008 Colorado Blue Spruce Book Award, and the American Library Association named it a "Best Book for Young Adults". A two-part film based on the book began showing in November 2010, when the first part was released; the second part is scheduled for July 2011.



Contents [hide]

1 Contents

1.1 Plot introduction

1.2 Plot summary

1.3 Epilogue

2 Background

2.1 Franchise

2.2 Choice of title

2.3 Rowling on finishing the book

3 Major themes

3.1 Death

3.2 Living in a corrupted society

3.3 Christian allegories

4 Release

4.1 Marketing and promotion

4.2 Spoiler embargo

4.3 Online leaks and early delivery

4.4 Price wars and other controversies

5 Publication and reception

5.1 Critical response

5.2 Sales, awards and honours

6 Translations

7 Editions

8 Adaptations

8.1 Film

8.2 Audiobooks

9 Notes

10 References

11 Bibliography

12 External links





ContentsPlot introductionThroughout the six previous novels in the series, the titular character Harry Potter has struggled with the difficulties of adolescence along with being a famous wizard. When Harry was a baby, Lord Voldemort, a powerful evil wizard, murdered Harry's parents but vanished after attempting to kill Harry. Harry immediately became famous, and was placed in the care of his Muggle, or non-magical, relatives Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon.



In Philosopher's Stone, Harry re-enters the wizarding world at age 11 and enrolls in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He makes friends with Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. Harry also meets the school's headmaster, Dumbledore, and schoolmaster Severus Snape, who dislikes him. Harry fights Voldemort several times while at school, as the wizard tries to regain a physical form. In Goblet of Fire, Harry is entered in a dangerous magical competition called the Triwizard Tournament. At the conclusion of the Tournament, Harry witnesses the return of Lord Voldemort to full strength. During Order of Phoenix, the Ministry of Magic appoints Dolores Umbridge as the new High Inquisitor of Hogwarts. After forming an underground student group in opposition to Umbridge, Harry and several of his friends face off against Voldemort's Death Eaters, a group of Dark witches and wizards, and narrowly defeat them. In Half-Blood Prince, he learns that Voldemort has been using "horcruxes" to become immortal. These objects are fragments of a person's soul placed within an object so that when the body dies, a part of the soul remains and the person can be regenerated or resurrected.[2] However, the destruction of the creator's body leaves the wizard or witch in a state of half-life, without corporeal form.[3] When returning from a mission to discover a horcrux, Dumbledore is murdered by Snape, a former Death Eater whom Harry suspected of secretly remaining loyal to Voldemort. At the conclusion of the book, Harry decides to find and destroy Voldemort's remaining horcruxes to defeat the wizard.



Plot summaryFollowing Dumbledore's death, Voldemort completes his ascension to power and gains control of the Ministry of Magic. Harry, Ron, and Hermione leave Hogwarts to hunt and destroy Voldemort's remaining horcruxes. They isolate themselves to ensure their friends and families' safety. They have little knowledge about the remaining horcruxes except the possibility that two are objects once belonging to Hogwarts founders Rowena Ravenclaw and Helga Hufflepuff, and the third may be Nagini, Voldemort's snake familiar. The whereabouts of the two founders' objects is unknown, and Nagini is presumed to be with Voldemort. As they search for the Horcruxes, the trio learn more about Dumbledore's past.



Harry, Ron, and Hermione recover the first horcrux, Salazar Slytherin's locket, by infiltrating the Ministry of Magic. Under the object's evil influence and the stress of being on the run, Ron leaves the others. A mysterious silver doe leads Harry to the Sword of Godric Gryffindor, among the few objects able to destroy horcruxes. When Harry attempts to recover the sword, the horcrux attempts to kill him. Ron reappears, saving Harry and using the sword to destroy the locket. Resuming their search, the trio continually encounter a strange symbol, that an eccentric wizard named Xenophilius Lovegood tells them represents the mythical Deathly Hallows. The Hallows are three sacred objects: the Resurrection Stone, with the power to summon the dead to the living world; the Elder Wand, an unbeatable wand; and an infallible Invisibility Cloak. Harry learns that Voldemort is seeking the Elder Wand, but is unaware of the other Hallows and their significance. Harry decides that finding Voldemort's horcruxes is more important than procuring the Hallows. They break into a Death Eater's vault at the Wizarding Bank Gringotts to recover another horcrux, Helga Hufflepuff's cup. Harry learns that another horcrux is hidden in Hogwarts. Harry, Ron, and Hermione enter the school and find the Horcrux, the Diadem of Ravenclaw, and destroy the cup and the diadem.



Voldemort and his followers besiege Hogwarts. Harry, Ron, and Hermione, their allies, and various magical creatures defend Hogwarts. Several major characters are killed in the first wave of the battle, including Remus Lupin, Nymphadora Tonks, Fred Weasley, and Severus Snape. Harry discovers while viewing the memories of Severus Snape that Voldemort inadvertently made Harry a horcrux when he attacked him as a baby and that Harry must die to destroy Voldemort. These memories also confirm Snape's unwavering loyalty to Dumbledore and his role as spy in Voldemort's camp. Harry surrenders himself to Voldemort, who casts the Killing Curse at him, sending Harry to a limbo-like state between life and death. There, Dumbledore explains that when Voldemort used Harry's blood to regain his full strength, it protected Harry from Voldemort harming him; the Horcrux inside Harry has been destroyed, and Harry can return to his body despite being hit by the Killing Curse. Harry returns, the battle resumes, and after the last horcrux is destroyed, Harry finally kills Voldemort, and the wizarding world lives in peace once more.



EpilogueThe novel, the last in the series, closes with a brief epilogue set nineteen years later, in which Harry and Ginny Weasley are a married couple with three children: James Sirius, Albus Severus, and Lily Luna. Ron and Hermione married and have two children, Rose and Hugo. The families meet at King's Cross station, where a nervous Albus is departing for his first year at Hogwarts. Harry's godson, Teddy Lupin, is found kissing Bill and Fleur Weasley's daughter Victoire in a train carriage. Harry sees Draco Malfoy and his wife (revealed on Rowling's website behind the door as Astoria Greengrass[citation needed]) with their son, Scorpius. Neville Longbottom is now the Hogwarts Herbology professor and remains friends with the two families. Harry comforts Albus, who is worried he will be sorted into Slytherin, and tells his son that one of his two namesakes, Severus Snape, was a Slytherin and the bravest man he had ever met. He adds that the Sorting Hat takes one's choice into account, like it did for Harry. The book ends with these final words: "The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well."



BackgroundFranchiseHarry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was published by Bloomsbury, the publisher of all Harry Potter books in the United Kingdom, on 30 June 1997.[4] It was released in the United States on 1 September 1998 by Scholastic—the American publisher of the books—as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone,[5] after Rowling had received US$105,000 for the American rights—an unprecedented amount for a children's book by a then-unknown author.[6]



The second book, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets was originally published in the UK on 2 July 1998 and in the US on 2 June 1999. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was then published a year later in the UK on 8 July 1999 and in the US on 8 September 1999.[7] Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire was published on 8 July 2000 at the same time by Bloomsbury and Scholastic.[8] Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the longest book in the series at 766 pages in the UK version and 870 pages in the US version.[9] It was published worldwide in English on 21 June 2003.[10] Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was published on 16 July 2005, and it sold 9 million copies in the first 24 hours of its worldwide release.[11][12]



Choice of titleShortly before releasing the title, J. K. Rowling announced that she had considered three titles for the book.[13][14] The final title, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, named after the mythical Deathly Hallows in the novel, was released to the public on 21 December 2006 via a special Christmas-themed hangman puzzle on Rowling's website, confirmed shortly afterwards by the book's publishers.[15] When asked during a live chat about the other titles she had been considering, Rowling mentioned Harry Potter and the Elder Wand and Harry Potter and the Peverell Quest.[13]



Rowling on finishing the bookRowling completed the book while staying at the Balmoral Hotel in Edinburgh in January 2007, and left a signed statement on a marble bust of Hermes in her room which read: "J. K. Rowling finished writing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in this room (652) on 11 January 2007".[16] In a statement on her website, she said, "I've never felt such a mixture of extreme emotions in my life, never dreamed I could feel simultaneously heartbroken and euphoric." She compared her mixed feelings to those expressed by Charles Dickens in the preface of the 1850 edition of David Copperfield, "a two-years' imaginative task". "To which," she added, "I can only sigh, try seventeen years, Charles". She ended her message by saying "Deathly Hallows is my favourite, and that is the most wonderful way to finish the series".[17]



When asked before publication about the forthcoming book, Rowling stated that she could not change the ending even if she wanted. "These books have been plotted for such a long time, and for six books now, that they're all leading a certain direction. So, I really can't".[18] She also commented that the final volume related closely to the previous book in the series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, "almost as though they are two halves of the same novel".[19] She has said that the last chapter of the book was written "in something like 1990", as part of her earliest work on the series.[20] Rowling also revealed she originally she wrote the last words to be "something like: 'Only those who he loved could see his lightning scar'". Rowling changed this because she did not want people to think Voldemort would rise again and to say that Harry's mission was over.[21]



Major themes

J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, has said that the main theme of the series is Harry dealing with death.DeathIn a 2006 interview, J. K. Rowling said that the main theme of the series is Harry dealing with death,[22] which was influenced by her mother's death in 1990 from multiple sclerosis.[21][22][23][24] Lev Grossman of Time stated that the main theme of the series was the overwhelming importance of continuing to love in the face of death.[25] In a review for USA Today, Deirdre Donahue agreed that death was a major theme in Hallows, and that "Harry must wrestle with life's big issues: How should he define courage, whom can he trust, how much should he allow others—old friends like Ron, Hermione, Neville Longbottom, and Remus Lupin—to sacrifice for him" while comparing Harry to Frodo Baggins in the latter.[26]



Living in a corrupted societyAcademics and journalists have developed many other interpretations of themes in the books, some more complex than others, and some including political subtexts. Themes such as normality, oppression, survival, and overcoming imposing odds have all been considered as prevalent throughout the series.[27] Similarly, the theme of making one's way through adolescence and "going over one's most harrowing ordeals—and thus coming to terms with them" has also been considered.[28] Rowling has stated that the books comprise "a prolonged argument for tolerance, a prolonged plea for an end to bigotry" and that also pass on a message to "question authority and... not assume that the establishment or the press tells you all of the truth".[29]



Mary McCauley of The Baltimore Sun stated that the novel was a classic bildungsroman, and said that a "saving grace" theme of the series is a parent's love.[30] Deepti Hajela of Deseret News said that no place or happy occasion was safe, and the novel was full of "humor, courage, redemption, sadness, terror, humor [and] human frailty".[31] Writing for The Washington Post, Elizabeth Hand said that Rowling's major theme throughout the Harry Potter books was not the power of magic to maintain the wizards' social order, but that of love to create and sustain a community, to establish a sometimes fragile but remarkably resilient network of families, good, bad and indifferent.[32] Self-proclaimed Harry Potter pundit John Granger additionally noted that one of the reasons the Harry Potter books were so popular is their use of literary alchemy (similar to Romeo and Juliet, C. S. Lewis's Perelandra and Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities) and vision symbolism.[33]



Susan Hall wrote that there is no rule of law in the books, as the actions of Ministry of Magic officials are unconstrained by laws, accountability or any kind of legal challenge. This provides an opportunity for Voldemort to offer his own horrific version of order. As a side-effect Harry and Hermione, who were brought up in the highly-regulated Muggle world, find solutions by thinking in ways unfamiliar to wizards.[34] Some political commentators have seen J. K. Rowling's portrayal of the bureaucratised Ministry of Magic and the oppressive measures taken by the Ministry in the later books (like making attendance at Hogwarts School compulsory and the "registration of Mudbloods" with the Ministry) as an allegory of criticising the state.[35]



Christian allegoriesSee also: Religious debates over the Harry Potter series#Christian allegories in Deathly Hallows

The Harry Potter series has been under criticism for supposedly supporting witchcraft and occult. Before publication of Deathly Hallows, Rowling refused to speak out about her religion, stating, "If I talk too freely, every reader, whether 10 or 60, will be able to guess what's coming in the books".[36] However, many have noted Christian allegories apparent in Deathly Hallows.[36] In an August 2007 issue of Newsweek, Lisa Miller commented that Harry dies and then comes back to life to save mankind, like Christ. She points out the title of the chapter in which this occurs—"King's Cross"—a possible allusion to Christ's cross. Also, she outlines the scene in which Harry is temporarily dead, pointing out that it places Harry in a very heaven-like setting where he talks to a father figure "whose supernatural powers are accompanied by a profound message of love". Miller argues that these parallels make it difficult to believe that the basis of the stories is Satanic.[37][38] Rowling also stated that "my belief and my struggling with religous belief ... I think is quite apparent in this book", which is shown as Harry struggles with his faith in Dumbledore.[39]





Harry uses a cross, a Christian symbol, to mark Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody's grave.Deathly Hallows begins with a pair of epigraphs, one by Quaker leader William Penn and one from Aeschylus' The Libation Bearers. Of this, Rowling said "I really enjoyed choosing those two quotations because one is pagan, of course, and one is from a Christian tradition. I'd known it was going to be those two passages since Chamber was published. I always knew [that] if I could use them at the beginning of book seven then I'd queued up the ending perfectly. If they were relevant, then I went where I needed to go. They just say it all to me, they really do".[40]



Raymond Keating also outlines several Christian themes of the last book in an article in Newsday, concluding that "It's possible to read Lord of the Rings and Narnia without recognizing the religious aspects. That's even more so the case with Harry Potter. But Christian themes are there nonetheless".[41] Christian commentator Jerry Bowyer says of Rowling's "fundamentalist bashers",[42] "So much of the religious right failed to see the Christianity in the Potter novels because it knows so little Christianity itself ...The gospel stories themselves, the various metaphors and figures of the Law and the Prophets, and their echoes down through the past two millennia of Christian literature and art are largely unknown to vast swaths of American Christendom".[42] As regards Rowling's belief that discussing her faith would spoil the books, Bowyer says, "For once, I disagree with her: I don't think [the bashers] would have guessed the ending. Most of them can't recognise the ending of the story even after it's been told".[42]



When Harry visits his parents' grave, the biblical reference "The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death" (1 Corinthians 15:26) is inscribed on the grave.[43] The Dumbledore's family tomb also holds a biblical quote: "Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also", which is from Matthew 6:21.[43] Rowling states, "They're very British books, so on a very practical note Harry was going to find biblical quotations on tombstones ...[but] I think those two particular quotations he finds on the tombstones at Godric's Hollow, they sum up – they almost epitomise the whole series".[43]



Christian author Nancy Carpentier Brown also noted many Christian themes, such as Harry marking Mad-Eye Moody's grave with a cross, showing remorse and giving Voldemort a chance to redeem himself, and the Resurrection Stone.[44] She also pointed out that Harry becomes a godfather to Tonks and Lupin's son, Teddy Lupin, which is a Christian term.[44]



ReleaseFor more details on this topic, see Harry Potter fandom.

Marketing and promotionThe launch was celebrated by an all-night book signing and reading at the Natural History Museum in London, which Rowling attended along with 1,700 guests chosen by ballot.[45] Rowling toured the US in October 2007, where another event was held at Carnegie Hall in New York City with tickets allocated by sweepstake.[46]



Scholastic, the American publisher of the Harry Potter series, launched a multi-million dollar "There will soon be 7" marketing campaign with a "Knight Bus" travelling to 40 libraries across the United States, online fan discussions and competitions, collectible bookmarks, tattoos, and the staged release of seven Deathly Hallows questions most debated by fans.[47] In the build-up to the book's release, Scholastic released seven questions that fans would find answered in the final book:[48]



1.Who will live? Who will die?

2.Is Snape good or evil?

3.Will Hogwarts reopen?

4.Who ends up with whom?

5.Where are the Horcruxes?

6.Will Voldemort be defeated?

7.What are the Deathly Hallows?

J. K. Rowling arranged with her publishers for a poster bearing the face of the missing British child Madeleine McCann to be made available to book sellers when Deathly Hallows was launched on 21 July 2007 and said that she hoped that the posters would be displayed prominently in shops all over the world.[49]



After it was told that the novel would be released on 21 July 2007, Warner Bros. shortly thereafter said that the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix would be released shortly before the novel would be released, on 13 July 2007,[50] making many people proclaim that July 2007 was the month of Harry Potter.[51]



Spoiler embargoBloomsbury invested GB£10 million in an attempt to keep the book's contents secure until the 21 July release date.[52] Arthur Levine, U.S. editor of the Harry Potter series, denied distributing any copies of Deathly Hallows in advance for press review, but two U.S. papers published early reviews anyway.[53] There was speculation that some shops would break the embargo and distribute copies of the book early, as the penalty imposed for previous instalments—that the distributor would not be supplied with any further copies of the series—would no longer be a deterrent.[54]



Online leaks and early deliveryIn the week before its release, a number of texts purporting to be genuine leaks appeared in various forms. On 16 July, a set of photographs representing all 759 pages of the U.S. edition was leaked and was fully transcribed prior to the official release date.[55][56][57][58] The photographs later appeared on websites and peer-to-peer networks, leading Scholastic to seek a subpoena in order to identify one source.[59] This represented the most serious security breach in the Harry Potter series' history.[60] Rowling and her lawyer confirmed that there were genuine online leaks.[61] Reviews published in both The Baltimore Sun and The New York Times on 18 July 2007 corroborated many of the plot elements from this leak, and about one day prior to release, The New York Times confirmed that the main circulating leak was real.[60]



Scholastic announced that approximately one-ten-thousandth (0.0001) of the U.S. supply had been shipped early — interpreted to mean about 1,200 copies. One reader in Maryland received a copy of the book in the mail from DeepDiscount.com four days before it was launched, which evoked incredulous responses from both Scholastic and DeepDiscount. Scholastic initially reported that they were satisfied it had been a "human error" and would not discuss possible penalties;[62] however, the following day Scholastic announced that it would be launching legal action against DeepDiscount.com and its distributor, Levy Home Entertainment.[63] Scholastic filed for damages in Chicago's Circuit Court of Cook County, claiming that DeepDiscount engaged in a "complete and flagrant violation of the agreements that they knew were part of the carefully constructed release of this eagerly awaited book."[64] Some of the early release books soon appeared on eBay, in one case being sold to Publishers Weekly for US$250 from an initial price of US$18.[65]



Price wars and other controversiesAsda,[66][67] along with several other UK supermarkets, having already taken pre-orders for the book at a heavily discounted price, sparked a price war two days before the book's launch by announcing they would sell it for just GB£5 a copy (about US$8). Other retail chains then also offered the book at discounted prices. At these prices the book became a loss leader. This caused uproar from traditional UK booksellers who argued they had no hope of competing in those conditions. Independent shops protested loudest, but even Waterstone's, the UK's largest dedicated chain bookstore, could not compete with the supermarket price. Some small bookstores hit back by buying their stock from the supermarkets rather than their wholesalers. Asda attempted to counter this by imposing a limit of two copies per customer to prevent bulk purchases. Philip Wicks, a spokesman for the UK Booksellers Association, said, "It is a war we can't even participate in. We think it's a crying shame that the supermarkets have decided to treat it as a loss-leader, like a can of baked beans." Michael Norris, an analyst at Simba Information, said: "You are not only lowering the price of the book. At this point, you are lowering the value of reading."[68]



In Malaysia, a similar price war caused controversy regarding sales of the book.[69] Four of the biggest bookstore chains in Malaysia, MPH Bookstores, Popular Bookstores, Times and Harris, decided to pull Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows off their shelves as a protest against Tesco and Carrefour hypermarkets. The retail price of the book in Malaysia is MYR 109.90 (about GB£16), while the hypermarkets Tesco and Carrefour sold the book at MYR 69.90 (about GB£10). The move by the bookstores was seen as an attempt to pressure the distributor Penguin Books to remove the books from the hypermarkets. However, as of 24 July 2007, the price war has ended, with the four bookstores involved resuming selling the books in their stores with discount. Penguin Books has also confirmed that Tesco and Carrefour are selling the book at a loss, urging them to practice good business sense and fair trade.[70]



The book's early Saturday morning release in Israel was criticised for violating Shabbat. Trade and Industry Minister Eli Yishai commented "It is forbidden, according to Jewish values and Jewish culture, that a thing like this should take place at 2 a.m. on Saturday. Let them do it on another day."[71] Yishai indicated that he would issue indictments and fines based on the Hours of Work and Rest Law.[72]



Publication and receptionCritical responseThe Baltimore Sun's critic, Mary Carole McCauley, noted that the book was more serious than the previous novels in the series and had more straightforward prose.[30] Furthermore, reviewer Alice Fordham from The Times wrote that "Rowling's genius is not just her total realisation of a fantasy world, but the quieter skill of creating characters that bounce off the page, real and flawed and brave and lovable". Fordham concluded, "We have been a long way together, and neither Rowling nor Harry let us down in the end".[73] New York Times writer Michiko Kakutani agreed, praising Rowling's ability to make Harry both a hero and a character that can be related to.[74]



Time magazine's Lev Grossman named it one of the Top 10 Fiction Books of 2007, ranking it at #8, and praised Rowling for proving that books can still be a global mass medium.[75] Novelist Elizabeth Hand criticised that "...the spectacularly complex interplay of narrative and character often reads as though an entire trilogy's worth of summing-up has been crammed into one volume."[76] In a starred review from Kirkus Reviews, the reviewer said, "Rowling has shown uncommon skill in playing them with and against each other, and also woven them into a darn good bildungsroman, populated by memorable characters and infused with a saving, irrepressible sense of fun". They also praised the second half of the novel, but criticised the epilogue, calling it "provacatively sketchy".[77] In another review from The Times, reviewer Amanda Craig said that while Rowling was "not an original, high-concept author", she was "right up there with other greats of children's fiction". Craig went on to say that the novel was "beautifully judged, and a triumphant return to form", and that Rowling's imagination changed the perception of an entire generation, which "is more than all but a handful of living authors, in any genre, have achieved in the past half-century".[78]



In contrast, Jenny Sawyer of the Christian Science Monitor said that, "There is much to love about the Harry Potter series, from its brilliantly realised magical world to its multilayered narrative", however, "A story is about someone who changes. And, puberty aside, Harry doesn't change much. As envisioned by Rowling, he walks the path of good so unwaveringly that his final victory over Voldemort feels, not just inevitable, but hollow".[79] In the 12 August 2007 New York Times, Christopher Hitchens compared the series to World War Two-era English boarding school stories, and while he wrote that "Rowling has won imperishable renown" for the series as a whole, he also stated that he disliked Rowling's use of deus ex machina, that the mid-book camping chapters are "abysmally long", and Voldemort "becomes more tiresome than an Ian Fleming villain".[80] Catherine Bennett of The Guardian praised Rowling for putting small details from the previous books and making them large in Deathly Hallows, such as Grindelwald being mentioned on a Chocolate Frog Card in the first book. While she points out "as her critics say, Rowling is no Dickens", she says that Rowling "has willed into a fictional being, in every book, legions of new characters, places, spells, rules and scores of unimagined twists and subplots".[81]



Stephen King criticised the reactions of some reviewers to the books, including McCauley, for jumping too quickly to surface conclusions of the work.[82] He felt this was inevitable, because of the extreme secrecy before launch which did not allow reviewers time to read and consider the book, but meant that many early reviews lacked depth. Rather than finding the writing style disappointing, he felt it had matured and improved. He acknowledged that the subject matter of the books had become more adult, and that Rowling had clearly been writing with the adult audience firmly in mind since the middle of the series. He compared the works in this respect to Huckleberry Finn and Alice in Wonderland which achieved success and have become established classics, in part by appealing to the adult audience as well as children.[82]



Sales, awards and honours

Lines at Borders at midnight to buy the bookSales for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows were record setting. The initial U.S. print run for Deathly Hallows was 12 million copies, and more than a million were pre-ordered through Amazon and Barnes & Noble,[83] 500 percent higher than pre-sales had been for Half-Blood Prince.[84] On 12 April 2007, Barnes & Noble declared that Deathly Hallows had broken its pre-order record, with more than 500,000 copies pre-ordered through its site.[85] On opening day, a record 8.3 million copies were sold in the United States (over 96 per second),[86][87] and 2.65 million copies in the United Kingdom.[88] It holds the Guinness World record for fastest selling book of fiction in 24 hours for U.S. sales.[89] At WH Smith, sales reportedly reached a rate of 15 books sold per second.[90] By June 2008, nearly a year after it was published, worldwide sales were reportedly around 44 million.[1]



Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows has also won several awards.[91] In 2007, the book was named one of The New York Times 100 Notable Books,[92] and one of its Notable Children's Books.[93] The novel was named the best book of 2007 by Newsweek's critic Malcolm Jones.[94] Publishers Weekly also listed Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows among their Best Books of 2007.[95] In 2008, the American Library Association named the novel one of its Best Books for Young Adults,[96] and also listed it as a Notable Children's Book.[97] Furthermore, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows received the 2008 Colorado Blue Spruce Book Award.[91]



TranslationsMain article: Harry Potter in translation

Due to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows' worldwide fame, it has been translated into many languages. The first translation to be released was the Ukrainian translation, on 25 September 2007 (as Гаррі Поттер і смертельні реліквії).[98] The Swedish title of the book was revealed by Rowling as Harry Potter and the Relics of Death (Harry Potter och Dödsrelikerna), following a pre-release question from the Swedish publisher about the difficulty of translating the two words "Deathly Hallows" without having read the book.[99] This is also the title used for the French translation (Harry Potter et les reliques de la mort), the Spanish translation (Harry Potter y las Reliquias de la Muerte) and the Brazilian Portuguese translation (Harry Potter e as Relíquias da Morte).[100] The first Polish translation was released with a new title: Harry Potter i Insygnia Śmierci – Harry Potter and the Insignia of Death.[101] The Hindi translation Harry Potter aur Maut ke Tohfe (हैरी पॉटर और मौत के तोहफे), which means "Harry Potter and the Gifts of Death", was released by Manjul Publication in India on 27 June 2008.[102]



EditionsDeathly Hallows was released in hardcover on 21 July 2007,[103] and in paperback in the United Kingdom on 10 July 2008,[104] and in the United States on 7 July 2009.[105] In SoHo, New York, there was a release party for the American paperback edition, with many games and activities.[106] An "Adult Edition" with a different cover illustration was released by Bloomsbury on 21 July 2007.[107] To be released simultaneously with the original U.S. hardcover on 21 July with only 100,000 copies was a Scholastic deluxe edition, highlighting a new cover illustration by Marie GrandPré.[108] In October 2010, Bloomsbury released a "Celebratory" paperback edition, which featured a foiled and starred cover.[109] Lastly, on 1 November 2010, a "Signature" edition of the novel was released in paperback by Bloomsbury.[110]



AdaptationsFilmMain article: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (film)

A two-part film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is directed by David Yates, written by Steve Kloves and produced by David Heyman, David Barron and J. K. Rowling. Part 1 was released on 19 November 2010, and Part 2 is to be released on 15 July 2011.[111][112] Filming began in February 2009 and ended on 12 June 2010, marking the conclusion of 10 years of filming the Harry Potter franchise.[113] However, the cast confirmed they would reshoot the Epilogue scene as they only had two days to shoot the original.[114] Reshoots officially ended around December 2010.[note 1]



Part 1 has gained generally positive reviews, with a 79% approval rating out of 239 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes,[115] and a score of 65 ("generally favourable") from 41 critics on Metacritic.[116] The film also is the 10th highest grossing film of all time,[117] with over $948 million worldwide[118] the film had the third-highest grossing midnight release of all time.[119] It also was nominated for two Academy Awards: Best Art Direction and Best Visual Effects.[120]



Part 1 ended at Chapter 24 of the book, when Voldemort regained the Elder Wand.[121] However, there were a few omissions, such as the appearances of Dean Thomas and Viktor Krum, and Peter Pettigrew's death.[122] James Bernadelli of Reelviews said that the script stuck closest to the text since Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,[123] yet this was met with negativity from some audiences as the film inherited "the book's own problems".[124] Wesley Morris of The Boston Globe said that, like Alfonso Cuarón, "Yates and his crew are as visually descriptive as Rowling was with language".[125] However, a reviewer from Newsweek was displeased with the transition from text to film and said, "They've taken one of the most enchanting series in contemporary fiction and sucked out all the magic ... while Rowling's stories are endlessly inventive, Potter onscreen just gives you a headache."[126] At the time of its release, Rowling said that Part 1 is her favourite Harry Potter film so far.[127]



AudiobooksHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was released simultaneously on 21 July 2007 in both the UK and the United States.[128][129] The UK edition features the voice of Stephen Fry and runs about 24 hours[130] while the U.S. edition features the voice of Jim Dale and runs about 21 hours.[131] Both Fry and Dale recorded 146 different and distinguishable character voices, the most recorded by an individual on an audiobook.[132]



For his work on Deathly Hallows, Dale won the 2008 Grammy Award for the Best Spoken Word Album for Children.[133] He also was awarded an Earphone Award by AudioFile, who claimed, "Dale has raised the bar on audiobook interpretation so high it's hard to imagine any narrator vaulting over it."[134]



Notes1.^ While this is not officially confirmed, Emma Watson, who portrays Hermione Granger in the film adaptations, is quoted as saying "We have reshoots at Christmas", so filming presumably ended around this time.

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Wii Fit



Wii Fit European box art

Developer(s) Nintendo EAD

Publisher(s) Nintendo

Producer(s) Tadashi Sugiyama

Designer(s) Hiroshi Matsunaga[1]

Composer(s) Toru Minegishi

Engine Wii Sports (modified)

Platform(s) Wii

Release date(s) JP December 1, 2007[2]

EU April 25, 2008[3]

AUS May 8, 2008b[›][4]

NA May 21, 2008a[›]



Genre(s) Fitness game

Rating(s) ACB: G

CERO: A

ESRB: E

PEGI: 3+



Media/distribution Wii Optical Disc

Wii Fit (Wiiフィット?) is a video game developed by Nintendo for the company's home video game console, Wii,[5] designed by Hiroshi Matsunaga.[6] It is an exercise game consisting of activities using the Wii Balance Board peripheral. Wii Fit is currently the third best selling console game in history (among games not packaged with a console) with 22.61 million copies sold as of May 2010.



The game uses a unique platform peripheral called the Wii Balance Board, on which the player stands during exercise. The game features yoga, strength training, aerobics, and balance games. Matsunaga described the game as a "way to help get families exercising together".[7] Wii Fit has been used for physiotherapy rehabilitation[8][9] and has been adopted by various health clubs around the world. Additionally, the game has been used in nursing homes to improve posture in the elderly. The game has received generally positive reviews, despite criticism over the lack of intensity in some of its workout activities.[10]



Contents [hide]

1 Gameplay

1.1 Activities

1.1.1 Yoga and strength training

1.1.2 Aerobics and balance games

1.1.3 Body Test

2 Development

2.1 Follow-up

3 Reception

3.1 Sales

4 Other uses

5 See also

6 Footnotes

7 External links



[edit] Gameplay

The Wii Balance Board, which is bundled with Wii Fit, measures both a person's weight and center of balance.Wii Fit requires the use of the Wii Balance Board, a unique platform peripheral that the player stands upon during play. Similar to a bathroom scale, the Wii Balance Board is capable of measuring a person's weight, but is also able to detect the person's center of balance (COB), a feature heavily utilized in the game. Wii Fit contains more than 40 activities designed to engage the player in physical exercise, which consist of yoga poses, strength training, aerobics, and balance games.[11] Most activities generally focus on maintaining COB and improving posture.



Players register and play in Wii Fit via a user profile, assigned with the player's date of birth, height, and Mii character, that keeps track of the player's progress. Physical activities done outside of Wii Fit can be also be logged into the profile. Wii Fit allows up to eight different profiles to be registered.



[edit] Activities[edit] Yoga and strength trainingThe yoga and strength training activities in Wii Fit provide the player with an on-screen personal trainer, who offers direction and evaluation. While standing or otherwise leaning on the Wii Balance Board, the player is instructed to perform the activity by precisely imitating the trainer's actions. In yoga, the player holds a particular pose or series of poses for a duration of time; while in strength training the player performs a set number of repetitions of the exercise selected. During these sessions, the player is shown a visual indication of his or her COB, represented as a red dot. The trainer advises the player to maintain the COB throughout the activity, requesting that it not move outside a particular threshold (indicated as a yellow circle). When the activity ends, the player is scored based how the player kept his or her balance during the session: points are deducted if the player's body haphazardly swayed or shook at any point. There are 30 yoga and strength training activities included in Wii Fit.



Yoga Strength Training

Deep Breathing Single Leg Extension

Half-Moon Sideways Leg Lift

Dance Arm and Leg Lift

Cobra Single-Arm Stand

Bridge Torso Twists

Spinal Twist Rowing Squat

Shoulder Stand Single Leg Twist

Warrior Lunge

Sun Salutation Push-Up and Side Plank

Tree Jackknife

Downward Facing Dog Plank

Standing Knee Triceps Extension

Palm Tree Push-Up Challenge

Chair Plank Challenge

Triangle Jackknife Challenge

[edit] Aerobics and balance gamesThe other two major categories in Wii Fit, Aerobics and Balance Games, consist of 18 minigame activities that feature Miis as playable characters. Aerobics focus on activities that require more vigorous movement, and are divided into three distinct types: hula hooping, step aerobics, and jogging. In Hula Hoop, the player twirls his or her hips in order to spin a series of hoops, and is scored on the number of spins achieved within a period of time. Step aerobics (simply referred to as "Step" in-game) focus on stepping on and off the Wii Balance Board in a rhythmic fashion. In jogging, which does not use the Wii Balance Board, the player runs in place while keeping the connected Wii Remote in a pocket. The game provides variations of step aerobics and jogging (called "Free Step" and "Free Run" respectively) where the user may exercise at his or her own pace and does not require viewing the game screen; the player is able to watch television or something similar while performing the exercise.



Balance Games consist of nine activities that focus on directly controlling the game using the player's COB. "Soccer Heading," for example, focuses on leaning left or right to control the player's Mii in order to head incoming soccer balls. Another, "Table Tilt," focuses on directing balls into holes by shifting the player's balance to tilt the platform they rest on. Activities based on slalom skiing, snowboarding, and tightrope walking are also available, as well as a Zazen-based game (called "Lotus Focus") in which the player sits on the Wii Balance Board and remains motionless for a period of time.



[edit] Body Test

The beta Body Mass Index graph, during the game's production.Players may undergo "Body Tests," in which the player's body mass index (BMI) is calculated and balance control is tested. Each Body Test determines and updates the player's "Wii Fit Age", which loosely suggests the player's bodily strength in relation to his or her true age. A standalone application, called "Wii Fit Channel," may be installed to the Wii Menu in order for players to perform Body Tests without needing to load the Wii Fit game disc.[12]



[edit] Development

A Wii Fit demonstration booth at the Leipzig Games Convention in August 2007Wii Fit was first revealed as Wii Health Pack[13] by Nintendo's chief game designer Shigeru Miyamoto, during a conference in mid-September 2006.[7] Then described as a "way to help get families exercising together",[7] the game idea had first been included in Miyamoto's original design document for a core group of games including Wii Sports and Wii Play, the entirety of which was scribbled onto a sheet of paper.[7]



As with other games designed by Miyamoto such as Nintendogs, the design of Wii Fit was influenced by activities in his daily life.[14] He states that he and his family had become more health-conscious, going to the gym and tracking their weight.[14] He found that it had become "fun over time to talk about these things",[14] and as weighing oneself "didn't make much of a game",[14] Nintendo decided to build games around the idea to mesh with the concept.[14] The Wii Balance Board had been worked on for "almost two years", and was inspired by sumo wrestlers' need to weigh themselves with two scales.[15]



The game was announced under its current title at Nintendo's E3 press conference on July 11, 2007 and demonstrated by Miyamoto, Nintendo of America CEO Reggie Fils-Aime and other participants.[16] Miyamoto revealed that Wii Fit had been developed with a "full-scale" team for a year at the time,[15] and also stated that there were no plans to integrate WiiConnect24 functionality into the game.[17] He did note, however, the possibility for taking advantage of WiiConnect24 in the future, such as using the service to keep in contact with a doctor to help with rehabilitation, or with a fitness specialist to help with training exercises.[17]



[edit] Follow-upMain article: Wii Fit Plus

A follow-up to Wii Fit,[18] entitled Wii Fit Plus,[19] was confirmed by Japanese newspaper Nikkei Shimbun. It was released in Japan on October 1, 2009 and in North America on October 4, 2009. Wii Fit Plus includes approximately 20 new games while still using the same Balance Board and other video game equipment.



[edit] Reception[hide] Reception

Aggregate scores

Aggregator Score

GameRankings 80%[20]

Metacritic 80/100[21]

Review scores

Publication Score

1UP.com B+[10]

Computer and Video Games 6.8/10[22]

Eurogamer 8/10[23]

Game Revolution C+[24]

GameSpot 7.0/10[25]

IGN 8.0/10[26]

Official Nintendo Magazine 91%[27]

X-Play 4/5[28]

Wii Fit holds an 80% score on Game Rankings, aggregated from the scores of 52 media outlets,[20] and got an average score of 81 on MobyGames.[29]



While the playful balance and aerobics minigames have generally been praised as simple fun,[10] criticism for the game is aimed at its limitations in offering a serious workout regime.[28] In 1UP.com's review, one such limitation was attributed to the lack of structure the game imposes on the player, stating that while having "complete freedom to choose what you want to do, you might find yourself cheating, despite your best intentions."[10] X-Play also noted that the brief activities are separated by menus, making it difficult for one to keep up a constant heart rate,[28] with Game Revolution criticizing a serious limitation: "as a stand-alone fitness trainer it suffers greatly by the inability to assemble a full, unbroken workout without the horrible 'fitness interruptus' necessitated by bothersome menu navigation and obtrusive Wii remote usage." Some have also pointed out a lack of Nintendo's usual charm in game design,[22] specifically in the yoga and strength training exercises which take place in a muted setting that one critic referred to as "the world's most lifeless, depressing gym."[10] Despite these limitations, the game's friendly front-end and amount of activities are cited as appealing features to those who are perhaps seeking an introduction to daily exercise.[10] In a review on IGN, Wii Fit was said to create "an environment in which working out is less daunting and as a result enjoyable -- fun, even."[26]



According to a study published in the Journal of Physical Activity and Health, the aerobics portion of Wii Fit was not sufficient to maintain a heart rate of the recommended intensity (known in sports physiology as a target heart rate) for maintaining cardiorespiratory fitness.[30]



A study published by Tokyo's National Institute of Health and Nutrition concluded that only 33% of the exercises (22 of a total of 68) qualified as medium-intensity, with the rest as low-intensity. No exercises qualified as high-intensity. The researchers concluded that only one-third of the exercises qualify towards the exercise guidelines provided by the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and the American Heart Association (AHA), and that the exercises offered less benefits "than authentic sports or exercises because playing these active video games involved little horizontal locomotion."[31] However, to reach 30 minutes of moderate activity (5 times a week) as suggested by the ACSM, significantly more time is required, due to the repeated manual navigations of the menus required between each exercise and the inability to program customized exercise routines, repetitions, or time limits (or even personalized intensities—the "trainer" will never modify the speed based on the user's fitness level).[24]



Wii Fit was awarded Best Use of the Balance Board by IGN in its 2008 video game awards.[32] It was also nominated for multiple other awards, including Best New IP[33] and Best Sports Game.[34] Hyper commends the game for its "effective exercise program, its accessibility and its massive novelty value". However, he criticised it for not being a "gamer's game and no good for long sessions".[35]



Cycling Weekly reported that Mark Cavendish, a double Madison World Champion and Commonwealth Games gold medalist bike racer had to stop his training regime when he injured his left calf's gastrocnemius after falling off the balance board while playing Wii Fit.[36]



There was minor controversy regarding Wii Fit in the UK, where two parents complained after the known limitations of BMI led to their daughter being labeled as overweight.[37] Nintendo apologized over any offense caused by the terminology used in-game.



[edit] SalesWii Fit sold over a quarter of a million copies in its first week,[38] and despite not being released outside Japan, Wii Fit reached the one million unit sales milestone by January 6, 2008, after being released on December 1, 2007.[39][40] As of January 4, 2009, it has sold 3,125,000 copies in Japan.[41] It is the also the third best-selling game of Japan in 2008, as well as the best-selling Wii game in Japan of that year, selling 2,149,131 in that year.[42]



Prior to release, consumer reaction was also positive in the United Kingdom, with some retailers having to stop taking pre-orders due to its increasing popularity.[43] Reports in the United Kingdom state that the Wii Fit launch had seen lines form nationwide.[44] Retailer Woolworths claimed that the game was also selling at a rate of 90 copies per minute.[45] Nintendo UK have stated it is working hard to ensure that enough stock is available.[46] In its first week of release, Wii Fit was the best-selling video game in the week, topping the all-format chart. Despite the game being sold at a higher price than average (£70, compared to an average of £35-40) it became the UK's sixth fastest selling console title according to Chart-Track/ELSPA and garnered over £16 million in sales.[47] During the week beginning the 19 May 2008, Wii Fit's sales in the UK fell from second in the all-formats chart to dropping out of the top 40 altogether, believed to be caused by Wii Fit being completely sold out.[48] Subsequently, Nintendo UK promised to rectify the stock problems plaguing Wii Fit and vowed "We will end Wii Fit stock shortage".[49][50]



In the United States, pre-launch sales of Wii Fit were reported to have sold out at retailers Amazon.com, GameStop and Wal-Mart.[51] After the initial release, reports showed stores selling out of Wii Fit nationwide.[52] Michael Pachter, an analyst with Wedbush Morgan Securities, estimated that Nintendo shipped only 500,000 copies of the game in North America as opposed to as many as two million units to Europe. According to Pachter, the Wii Fit units were allocated by Nintendo to maximize profit, by prioritizing Europe over North America, taking advantage of the strong value of the euro compared to the U.S. dollar.[53] According to the NPD Group, Wii Fit sold 690,000 units in the US in May 2008, making it the country's third highest selling title for the month.[54] Wii Fit debuted in the United States at a suggested retail price of $89.99 for the base system unbundled with other accessories. As with the Wii console itself, the demand for Wii Fit has far outstripped the supply. The perceived shortage has created a secondary market for private sellers to purchase Wii Fit at retail outlets and sell the product for inflated prices. In June 2008, Wii Fit was reported to be selling at an average of $175 per unit on Amazon.com and EBay.[55]



According to the NPD Group, GfK Chart-Track, and Enterbrain, the game has sold 1.433 million copies in the United States, 624,000 in the United Kingdom, and 1.547 million in Japan, respectively, for a total of 3.604 million copies sold from January to July 2008.[56] As of March 31, 2009, Nintendo has sold 18.22 million copies of Wii Fit worldwide.[57] According to the NPD Group, GfK Chart-Track, and Enterbrain, the game has sold 1.283 million copies in the United States, 460,000 in the United Kingdom, and 346,000 in Japan, respectively, for a total of 2.089 million copies sold in the third quarter of 2008 (July–September).[58] Wii Fit was the third best-selling game of December 2008 in the United States, selling in excess of 999,000 copies.[59] It was also the third best-selling game of 2008 in the United States, selling in excess of 4.53 million.[59].



As of May 2010, the game has sold 22.61 million copies worldwide, and is #2 on the best-selling Wii games list (trailing only Wii Play).



[edit] Other usesWii Fit has been used for physiotherapy rehabilitation[60][61] and has been adopted by various health clubs around the world.



Wii Fit has also been used for the treatment of balance problems in the elderly. In a study, and 86 year old woman was unable to walk without close supervision, even with a walker, due to poor balance and a tendency to fall, after a stroke. She participated in four training sessions along with physical therapy. She was test on the outcome measures of Berg Balance Scale (BBS), the Functional Reach and Lateral Reach tests, Timed Up & Go test (TUG), computerized posturography, and the Short Feedback Questionnaire (SFQ). This was done before the first training session and after the last one. From the results and her own feedback, she had improved antero-posterior symmetry of stance. "When released from hospital, she was able to walk with a walker with minimal supervision."[62]



In summer 2009, Finnish Defence Forces support organisation invested in 384 Wii consoles (including Wii Sports and Wii Fit) for military bases around the country, in order to inspire soldiers to exercise more in their free time. The feedback from the conscripts and officers has been positive.[63]



Some nursing homes use Wii Fit as a way to engage in gentle exercise. The system is used to give the residents a yoga workout along with flexibility and balance exercises. The game allows for those who are unable to perform rigorous daily exercise to still increase their heart rate and improve their overall health. Depending on their level of mobility, some can perform the exercises while standing, while others may remain seated.[64]



[edit] See also Nintendo portal

Video games portal

Wii Fit Plus

[edit] FootnotesNotes

^ a: In North America, Wii Fit was launched on May 19, 2008, with an exclusive release at the Nintendo World Store in New York City, two days before the general release.[65]





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