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The best HP game so far.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 31, 2008
Author: Amazon User

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!

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix for Wii

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is fun and challenging. I am not a big gamer in fact the Wii is the first game system I have ever bought, because it is more interactive. I love the way it plays over other systems. Harry Potter is a fun game to play and I have gotten stuck and had to ask someone how to get out of it, but that makes it more fun because it is not too easy like some of the other games I have played on it.

Not what I expected, but still fun!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I'm a huge Harry Potter fan so I thought the this game would be fun! When I had finally finished the instructions, which were long and detailed, I thought I'd be prepared for playing the game. I was very confused at times by which tasks to do first, and how to remember all the spell motions. It's more complicated than fun, sorry to say.

Fun game for hard core Harry Potter fans.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is a very enjoyable.

Pros: You get to play as characters such as Dumbledore, Sirius, Harry and fight characters such as Voldemort, Belatrix,and Malfoy. The storyline follows the book very well and you can visit places such as Hogwarts, Number 12 Grimmuald Place, The Ministry of Magic, and Number 4 Private Drive.

Cons: You have to wander around Howarts alot and it can get boring.

Overall, if you don't mind exploring Hogwarts it is a fun game.

Not user friendly!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: May 09, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I bought this for my 10 year old grandson who plays a lot on the WII and is a Harry Potter fan.....He was easily distracted and changed to something else rather quickly. This may be OK for an older player but I tried it and didn't like it either!

Not the greatest...but still cool!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Of course when this game first came out I thought it would be the greatest thing in the world being able to use the wiimote to cast spells such as the famous swish and flick (wingardiumleviosa). Well, turns out your just tilt the wiimote and nunchuck upwards, :).

The basic premesis of this game is you use the nunchuck to guide Harry around Hogwarts (obnoxiously followed by Ron and Hermione EVERYWHERE) and complete little tasks assigned to you. One of the more major ones is trying to get everybody from the DA in the Room of Requierement which requires you to find everybody on your map and do things for them so that they agree to go.

You also do little things around the school like find secret passages to shorten your trips from place to place (it REALLY helps), play wizard chess and marbles, put paintings back in place, fix statues, find animal prints, etc. all to get magical points to increace the power of your spells and various other bonuses.

The spells are like I said, the simple motion of the wiimote and/or nunchuck such as a circular motion, a tilt, a shake side to side, etc. It IS pretty cool though because it's certainly more realistic than pressing the 'A' button a controller.

This game is probably better for younger kids who like Harry Potter and like the idea of magic or scavenger hunts. It's definitely not something for a hard core gamer or an obsessive Harry Potter fan, because you WILL be dissapointed.

Overall, the cons are that the spells are a bit difficult sometimes, especially wingardiumleviosa because you have to tilt the nunchukc and wiimote together so that it works on screen and it can be difficult. Also, when you want to go somewhere on the map, you have to click on that place and then little footsteps on the floor will lead you around. This can be a bit difficult to follow because they don't appear consistently and sometimes you can't tell which way they're facing. Also, you actually have to walk from one end of the castle to the other which could take up to a minute or two in the real world, which is honestly kind of annoying.

Anyways, the real reason I personally like the game, is because I get a feeling of accomplishment when I complete like a list of tasks, and that's basically what this game is. A list of people to see shows up on the Maurauder's Map and you go to them and do stuff and blah blah blah and it gets off your list.

Totally immersion

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 13, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I borrowed my friend's Wii for a month when he went away and I bought this game because I felt that the Wii controllers would be fantastic for all the spell making. I was not disappointed! Exploring the grounds of Hogwarts was amazing and the the graphics were extremely detailed. It totally brought the story to life. Bear in mind that most of my gaming experience has been with the old NES and SNES so perhaps the graphics would not be so impressive to gamers today. My only complaint is that sometimes the controller would get a bit confused about my movements when casting spells, but apart from that I absolutely loved it!

OKY game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Harry Potter for the nintendo wii is a pretty good game except for a few things. Anyway lts just get to the game play. In this game the gameplay is oky in this game but it could be better. First of all to cast a spell in Harry Potter on the Wii you have to move your wand a certin way or else it won't work. This is annoying becase if you are in the middle of a battle it could take you a long time to hit you enemy because you can't cast a spell corectly. The good thing about this game is that it is more realistic. what I mean by that is you get to actually wave your wand instead of just sitting on you butt using a playstaion controler. Also the game is fun at the begining but after you beat it it really gets boring because there is nothing to do.
The graphics in this game are about as good as the PS3 except malfoys face looks like a peice of crap.
The sound is also really good in this game to.
Overall I give this game a three out of fiv because its an oky game but its not the best Harry potter game.

More puzzle/adventure than action

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: March 19, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I'm the mom in the family and I bought this primarily for my Harry-crazy kids, but I've played through it myself and enjoy it quite a bit. I think it will appeal to casual gamers like me who like to think through situations. For example, you level-up in power by collecting points throughout Hogwarts. My kids didn't notice that the beds in the dormitories and the hospital wings all needed to be made. Poof! 200 points right there for tidying up. All the torches throughout the castle need to be lit, and there are clever nods to the previous books (hint: you can open the Chamber of Secrets in Myrtle's bathroom). When the story line is complete, you can enter "endless day" mode and try to figure out the hidden points you haven't discovered yet. Some are quite challenging.

I recommend this, along with "Endless Ocean" to those parents out there who bought a Wii system primarily for their kids and want to enjoy it without a lot of frenzied shot-em-up action.

Fun...Yet Tiresome.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 17, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Pros: This is a great game it's fun and the makers of the game even added parts into the game that was in the book but not in the movie. The graphics are unbeleavable and the spellcasting is awesome.
Cons: Sometimes with the Wii remote as a wand can be frustrating. When your casting accio and depulso it is usually messed up. The dule between Voldemort and Dumbledore is lame. The Dumbledore is extremly boring to play as and Voldemort keeps repeating his lines over and over again.

That may seem like a lot of cons but overall it is an entertaining game for those who love the books and movies.

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