Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - Harry Potter 6 Books

Product Description

In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry returns for his fifth year of study at Hogwarts. The wizarding community is in denial about his recent encounter with the evil Lord Voldemort. The Minister for Magic, Cornelius Fudge, appoints a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher to keep watch over Dumbledore and the Hogwarts students. The young wizards are woefully unprepared to defend themselves against the dark forces threatening them, leaving Harry, Ron and Hermione to handles things themselves. Harry prepares a group of young wizards calling themselves "Dumbledore's Army" for the extraordinary battle against Voldemort and his Death Eaters that lies ahead.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1796 in Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Released on: 2007-06-25
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platform: Nintendo Wii
• Dimensions: .80 pounds

Features

• Immerse Yourself in Magic—Interact with magical objects, ghosts and portraits in every room, corridor and courtyard—all faithfully recreated from the movies.
• Perfect Your Wand Work—Cast spells to unleash powerful fifth-year magic.
• Lead Dumbledore’s Army—Recruit fellow students and teach them defence against the dark arts.
• Relive the Magic of the Movie—…from the Dementor attack in Little Whinging to the epic battles at the Ministry of Magic.
• Unleash Advanced Magic—Play as Sirius and Dumbledore as they fight Lucius, Bellatrix and Voldemort in the Ministry of Magic.

Amazon.com
In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix™, Harry returns for his fifth year of study at Hogwarts only to discover that much of the wizarding community has been led to believe that the story of the teenager’s recent encounter with the evil Lord Voldemort is a lie, putting Harry’s integrity in question. Worse, the Minister for Magic, Cornelius Fudge, has appointed a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, the duplicitous Professor Dolores Umbridge. But Professor Umbridge’s "Ministry-approved" course of defensive magic leaves the young wizards woefully unprepared to defend themselves against the Dark Forces threatening them, so at the prompting of his friends Hermione and Ron, Harry is convinced to take matters into his own hands. Meeting secretly with a small group of students who name themselves "Dumbledore’s Army," Harry teaches them how to defend themselves against the Dark Arts, preparing the courageous young wizards for the extraordinary battle that lies ahead.

Discover the real Hogwarts Use the Nintendo Wii™ Remote to put a wand in your hand and cast spells in the game. Explore the Hogwarts as seen in the movie and discover its magical secrets. Talk to the portraits, complete their missions and gain passwords for shortcuts around Hogwarts. The player can interact with virtually everything they come across, gain discovery points and unlock secrets in the Room of Rewards.

Recruit Dumbledore's Army Find and recruit the members of Dumbledore's Army. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 's non-linear gameplay allow the player to choose where they go, what they do and when they do it, within the magical surroundings of Hogwarts.

Attend Hogwarts classes Complete side-missions for teachers and attend Herbology, Charms, Transfiguration and Potions classes to earn O.W.L. grades. Achieving "Outstanding" opens secret areas of the castle!!

Play Wizard Games Compete in Exploding Snap, Gobstones and Wizard Chess games throughout Hogwarts and challenge the best from each house using unique Wii Remote and Nunchuk controls.

Experience the movie in the game Play the key moments from the movie, from the Dementor™ attack in Little Whinging to the ferocious battles at the Ministry of Magic. Experience the most authentic-to-the-movie game experience in Harry Potter videogame history: the castle is built from the same blueprints used to build the movie sets; actual movie assets were referenced to create a more authentic feel; many of the movie's actors have been head scanned and contribute their actual character voices; and the key Harry Potter music theme can be heard in this videogame..

Play other favorite characters Fly Fred and George out of Hogwarts as they escape Umbridge's regime. Play as Sirius Black™ to protect Harry as you confront Bellatrix Lestrange and Lucius Malfoy in the Ministry of Magic. Play as Dumbledore™ in his momentous final confrontation with Voldemort™.

Customer Reviews

Harry Potter and the Wii
First off, I'd like to say that I'm new to this whole Harry Potter thing. No, I haven't been living under a rock. I just never found much interest in it. But my wife is a big Harry Potter fan, and she's read all the books and seen all the movies in theaters, so one day she made me watch the first movie, and then the next, and the next. I really enjoyed the movies, and now have a new interest in all things Harry Potter, so I decided to give one of the games a try.

I was torn between the Wii version and the PS3 version. The Wii of course has the interactive controls where you use the wiimote like a wand, but the PS3 had the HD graphics. After reading several reviews online from people who recommended the Wii version over it's HD brothers, I picked up the Wii version.

Using the spells is really pretty fun and it does make you feel like you're using a wand. Sometimes the controls are a little unresponsive, but I realized you just can't wave your hand around like a madman. If you just take things slow and easy, then most of the time the game will pick up on what you're trying to do.

I haven't read the Order of the Phoenix book, but I have seen the movie, and the game really just loosely follows the movie. Although my wife, who is also playing the game, said they added in some stuff from the book too.

Graphic wise, the game is pretty decent for a Wii game. Or at least Hogwarts is. The castle is really the star of the show here, since you'll be spending most of the time walking from one end of Hogwarts to the other. However, I was kind of disappointed with some of the character models. Although Harry and his friends look good, you can tell that not as much time went into some of the other characters walking around. Also, this game has a bad case of the "jaggies"; a lot of jagged edges to be found.

Sound is pretty good with songs from the movies in there, and I think they said they got 21 or 22 of the actors from the movies to voice their parts. However, I don't think they got the actor who played Harry to do his voice, but they defiantly found someone who sounds just like him. But the voice actor they got to play Snape was just horrible.

Gameplay is pretty straight forward and you'll be spending most of your time performing tasks for other students, like finishing their homework for them or getting bullies to leave them alone and so forth. My favorite part of the game comes towards the end, where you and you're fellow students are doing things to give Umbridge a hard time.

There is some fighting in the game, but don't confuse this game as being an action game. The dueling is kind of dull really, and isn't really as exciting as it could have been. And I'm not even sure if you can lose, because I never did (unless you were supposed to).

If you have multiple systems, and are trying to decide which version to get, you have to ask yourself which is more important: graphics or interactivity?

Better than expected
This was my first Harry Potter game and I found it to be fun. Using the Wiimote as a wand to cast spells made the game interesting. Trying to convince a new player to say the magic words outloud while playing is even more fun though.

The best HP game so far.
The whole hogwarts campus is open, no waiting for an area to load. The music and castle are beautiful. The tasks can be a little tedious, but you get through them. The only negative about it is that it's somewhat boring defeating voldemort (sp?) overall wonderful, easy-to-follow game!