Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
by Electronic Arts
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Video Game Reviews of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Customer Review: Great entertainment!
Summary: 4 Stars
The game is alot of fun and follows the movie and book fairly well. Some of the wand movements are a little hard to perform. Wish it could be multi player- didn't know that before purchasing. Overall, fun and keeps you going for a long time.Customer Review: Great family fun
Summary: 5 Stars
The Harry Potter game that I purchased for my Grandson's new Wii is working great and they love playing it and so do their parents.
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Nick
Customer Review: Wii cannot save this game
Summary: 2 Stars
Ok, I am an older gamer. Played Zork 1 when it came out (the original), anyway. My wife and I love the Harry Potter series. I bought this for her for Christmas to play on our Wii. The controls were difficult often impossible. Some areas the camera blocked the view of where you were supposed to go. Sometimes there are places you just stand with no indication of what you have to do (other than the marauder map giving you clues). The bridge scene was the final straw. Tack it up to me being old if you will, the bridge scene where the kids were beating up Nevil took me 45 minutes to find out that we had to do a spell at the torches 50 feet above us.
The animation is ok, the graphics are pretty bad. Whenever a character talks they open their mouths. The teeth are just 1 pixel thick and look like white cardboard in their mouths. You can often see through the back of a persons head as you are moving around. Overall this game was rushed to line up with the movie release and therefore it is pretty bad.
Customer Review: Hogwarts accurately recreated in video game form... but terrible game play
Summary: 2 Stars
The only interesting thing about this game is that it you can explore Hogwarts and the grounds. It seemed very realistic to me and the graphics are pretty cool.
But as far as game play goes - it's absolutely the worst game I have ever played. 90% of the game is performing menial tasks. The rest is just swinging the wii remote around. It felt like it was telling the story while finding random things you could do to try to tie you into the story. For example - how can you put occlumency into a video game? It just doesn't work... yet they decide to do it. Also they randomly switch you to a different character for a few "scenes"... like you get to be Dumbledore in the big Voldemort/Dumbledore battle where you just wiggle the wii remote randomly and wait boredly for it to end.
Also I thought it would be really cool to be able to use the wii remote as a wand but I found it frustrating to get the wii remote to respond correctly to the spells I was trying ot do. This may be a limit of the wii system itself more than this particular game.
Customer Review: Hogwarts simulator w/ a little OOTP Story & Chess
Summary: 4 Stars
The previous Harry Potter Games all have their highs and lows as far as gameplay meets the Potterverse goes. This time around the focus is around the storyline of Order of The Phoenix specifically the film adaptation. The castle is a fully realized vision full of all the things you would expect and a few surprises. The Marauders map figures large into gameplay as well with black padfeet leading your way from destination to destination. This is all wonderfully implemented, the real issues here are a slighty subpar graphical quality at times (jaggy) and characters that look like lifeless CG versions of themselves. The wand controls can be problematic but if you use sublte hand movements versus big grand gestures you'll find that you can get spells to fire in a reliable fashion. The game is fairly short with the first 50% being made up of the search for members of the DA.. The voice acting is above average and the spell duels are engaging but there are too few. Overall EA has brought a respectable digital version of OOTP to the table, but in the end my favorite part of this game was the minigames. Chess and Gobstones which add some much needed fun diversion to a fairly straightforward game.