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Great for the WII

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 34 / 37
Date: July 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

My family rented this game for a week and My boyfriend who's 30 and myself love it. It's a perfect game for the WII since you actually get to use the remote as a wand and perform spells. You get really in to it. The only con is that there is a lot of walking around to find things and to do your tasks. There's some little bugs with the remote in doing spells, sometimes it will do a different spell than the one you want. My 9 year old LOVES it. He likes how it's interactive and how the characters are more real. He did have a little trouble with some spells but after practicing he did good. I would recomend this game for anyone who has a WII and likes Harry Potter

Great family fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

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

Harry Potter WII game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 08, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Any person playing this game has to be familiar with the Harry Potter story, otherwise the idea of the game can be confusing..But if you do know the stories the game is great! The graphics are terrific, and the magic is great fun..

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.

Best Potter Yet

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 39 / 42
Date: June 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

So far I am very impressed with this game. Overall it is the best recreation of the castle yet. There are no load times as seen in the previous games. So when you go from say the courtyard to the common room you can go straight there with no loading screens. There is a slight slow down when going between some areas but nothing really noticeable. For the most part you just walk up to a door and continue through it.

The Spell casting on the Wii is pretty fun. Instead of having to switch between them like they were items it is just a flick of the wand (or Wii Remote) to activate a spell. The spell used depends on the flick.

The graphics are beautiful and the attention to detail is amazing. In this one almost all of the paintings are animated in some way or another and you can talk to some of them.

I just can't get over how huge the castle is. The map is very essential to finding your way about. You can even select locations and the foot steps will appear in front of you to guide you to that location or person. The voice acting is well done though there is some repetition. But since they recorded the same lines several different times the character can say the same thing and say it a little differently each time.

There are also many mini games. So far I have found a game of Wizard chess, a version of shooting marbles (gobstones I think) and some sort of matching game.

If you are a fan of Harry Potter then this is a must buy. Its not for everyone (there are a lot of anti-potter's out there) The game is like the others where there are a lot of fetch and grab missions, not much on the fighting aspect of it though there are some times where you get into a duel with some of the other students and some bad guys later in the game.

() Game play: This is pretty easy since you have the nun chuck to navigate. Some of the spells are frustrating to pull off. Like the levitating spell the floating objects are difficult to get positioned exactly where you want to. I had one painting that I wanted to position on the wall get stuck behind the wall in limbo and couldn't get it back in the room. Though after leaving the area and revisiting it later the puzzle reset itself and I was able to complete it.

() Music: The music is great everything just works well where you are at and does not seem out of place. They did a great job on that.

() Graphics: These are some of the best on the wii. Nothing was rushed through. There are some low frame rates on the characters movement but nothing horrible.

() Lasting appeal: I don't know how long it will take to beat yet. And I always spend more time that necessary to find every thing. I think that the lasting appeal will be more for the younger crowd. My children still want me to get out the other Harry Potter games to knock around in, explore the castle, and fly around whatever. For the older crowd I think it will be like everything else where after beating the game it will only be revisited every so often.

() Overall I can say that this is the best Movie tie in game made yet that I have played. It just does not feel that they just rushed through this and slopped something out to sell.

BRILLIANT! Best Yet!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 10
Date: July 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I am a definite Harry Potter fan, having seen all the movies, played all the games, and read all the books to date. I have played and completed this game, but am still trying to get all the goodies. This Harry Potter game is definitely the best, and I think the Wii gives it the edge. It was a major improvement from the last one, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, which was TERRIBLE. Here is a rundown on how I think this game was.

--Graphics/Hogwarts: The graphics were good, but was really mind-boggling was the castle. It is HUGE! I just saw parts of the first three Harry Potter films yesterday on TV with my kids, and the castle was exactly like it. Every room, every staircase, every torch, every courtyard, every bridge or any other type of room looks exactly the same. You also get to visit other places, such as the Ministry of Magic and the Black house. They really outdid themselves. AWESOME!

--Game play (navigation, spells): As I stated before, the Wii gave this game the edge. You must have the wii remote and the numchuck to play this game. Using these to remotes, you can move throughout the castle or produce different spells by moving them with different motions. You can battle or you can use spells to earn experience points (see Repeatability). To navigate, you have to use the Mauraders Map. You simply select the location you want to go to, and footsteps appear on the ground leading you to that location.

--Story: The story followed the movie's plot, like the last four games. The Order of the Phoenix is my favorite book, movie, and now game to date. J.K. Rowling's twists, turns, and brilliant imagination really made it great.

--Repeatability (after you finish the story mode): Throughout the game, you could do tasks, some large, some just involve the flick of the remote, to earn experience points. Experience points make your spells more powerful, unlock videos with interviews about the game, and unlock cups (statues) for doing certain tasks. After you finish the story mode, you can continue your game in Endless Day mode, where you try to complete everything. I, for one, see me playing the game again once I have completed the Endless Day.

--Problems: I have heard some complaints, some being shaky cut scenes, but I had no problems with this game. I've heard some say when you say hi to people (hit the A button), they just say hi and go back to what they were doing. So WHAT? Would you rather engage into a long conversation about how homework is going, or how the daisies are beautiful in the garden? You have to remember that Harry isn't well liked in this game because he says Voldemort (the bad guy) is back, which is not a popular theory.

--Overall: This game was GREAT! I think this game is every thing a game should be. It is definitely worth the money. Children and adults will love it. It may not be as long as some games, such as The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess for the Wii (which I POSITIVELY recommend), but it is still a good length. BRILLIANT!!!

Best Potter and many spells!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: July 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Overall this game super but there is just one small flaw when you talk to someone they say hi then it goes back to the gamplay so guickly, but sort of funny. Anyway there's many things to do in the game and the castle is so much bigger than all the other games. The one thing that's really fun to do is cast a spell on the Slyterin people and get in a fight, by the way there are 12 spells. I deffinatly hope you by this game because it is very fun to flick the Wii Remote

Hogwarts simulator w/ a little OOTP Story & Chess

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 29 / 33
Date: August 25, 2007
Author: Amazon User

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.

Great entertainment!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

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.

Harry on the Wii

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

My sons are looking forward to the other Harry Potter games coming to Wii, they have them for Gamecube, but would like the Wii version. the only thing my son complains about is that this is for one player and he wanted to duel with my other son taking on the role of another character. With the Wii remote acting as a wand, it gives the kids the REAL feel of Harry Potter, it should be multiple player.

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