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Harry Potter - Filch's Replacement in Training

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 31, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Welcome to the world of Harry Potter - Year 5. You've progressed from ordinary magic, and have begun to apprentice yourself to the castle's infamous caretaker, Argus Filch. As such, you will complete the following chores:

- Sweeping the courtyard
- Mopping up puddles in not one, but *two* entrance-ways
- Stacking wood in torches
- Picking pears and putting them in baskets
- Repairing pots
- Lighting lamps
- Making beds in the hospital wing
- Pruning back overgrown devil's snare plants...
and much, much more!

50% of the way threw the game, and this is all I've found. You spend 90% of your time completing random, pointless tasks that serve no higher purpose than to extend the total playtime of the game.

The health bar found in previous versions of the Harry Potter gameverse has disappeared. Why? Because there's no need for one silly! There's nothing out there waiting to get you...maybe some grime in the bottom of the Prefect's Bathtub (which, thankfully, you don't have to scrub...or might, I wouldn't know, not having completed the *entire* game yet), but certainly no dark lords!

So here's how I broke it down:

Pros:
- Interesting graphics, well-organized castle layout.

Cons:
- Endless chores that any muggle could do
- Lack of actual, interesting discoveries that appeared in past versions
- Bad camera angles (to the point of obstructing gameplay)with no way of adjusting them
- Inability to adjust sound while in-game
- Inability to adjust window size
- No experience in-class

Well...the list goes on and on... Avoid this title, there are certainly better ones out there. It's obvious they made it like this to take advantage of the new Wii controller, but that technology is lost on a PC. (Most gestures just aren't the same.)

A Harry Potter Fan

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: September 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have always been a real fan of Harry Potter and the books and movies. So when the latest movie came out I thought I would love to play the computer game. And I have played it many times and I love the easy instructions and the graphics and of course I love the music as well.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix PC Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: November 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game as a gift for my 11 year old son. He LOVES it. He has no problem with using keyboard controls. The graphics are great.

Disappointing...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: July 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Figuring out the puzzles and playing Wizard Chess is fun, but there's no real fun it. Just about everything is too easy. It's not even difficult on the HARD setting. Hey, game developers! Less talk, more action!

What happened, EA?!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: November 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

It seems that EA did not learn a thing from the user feedback about the 4th game, GOF. But I sure did! I did not buy this game this time, but saw it from someone who did. I did not pre-order it and wait in anticipation like I did the previous times. Boy, an I glad! It has the same problems as with the 4th game. Where was the joy and - yes, magic - from the first three games? It doesn't matter if your game has cool graphics if no one can play it comfortably on a PC with a mouse.

Go away, EA! Give the Harry Potter game contract to someone deserving of it.

A little boring

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: August 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Not too goal directed. Too much running around without being positive of the purpose. Unable to discern the list of DA prospect and the mouse control for running is very "loose" all over the place bumping into the other characters, walls, staircases. Not enough to do and a lot of running long distances for little or nothing. Spells do not work well and are disjointed in selection. The first two games were fun, the last too...not so much.

Game worth playing

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: August 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I am still at the beginning, but it is a completely different game than the others. Most interesting.

harry potter order of the pheonix (video game)

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: December 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

i thought this was a dvd when i bought it, not a viedo game. i gave it to my great grand daughter for christmas. she likes it very much. rbw i did not play this game so i cannot rate it

Mediocre attempt

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: September 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Mouse/Keyboard controls are borderline infuriating. Luckily, I had a usb controller sitting around that I was able to use, which made the game a little more bearable.

Probably the next most annoying aspect of the game is the camera. You have no control over the camera, unlike most of the better 3rd person games released today. What this means is you may end up having a hard time seeing where you are going, or what you need to be doing. Also, when the camera changes positions, you have to train yourself to adjust the direction you are running as it will no longer be the direction you indend.

OOTP was also a very easy game. I completed it in a weekend. While i didn't find every hidden thing in the game, it just just isn't compelling enough to go back and try to find the stuff I missed.

It was fun getting to run around the castle ground, and to cast spells, but the variety of spells is a little slim, (6 combat, 6 non-combat).

If you are a Harry Potter fan, and if you have some coupons, or the game goes on sale, by all means pick this up. Its relatively entertaining, albeit short, but not worth the the full $40 MSRP price, and defiantly not for the $60 Xbox 360 price.

I'm pretty skeptical of game review sites, but they were dead on with this one...5 out of 10.

Great Hogwarts Exploration Game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: September 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The depth of design they put into this game is amazing. You can wander anywhere in Hogwarts without any big load times. But the game play itself isn't so great. The vast size of the game has it draw backs when you need to get from one side of the grounds to another, the portraits can be useful but hard to remember where each one leads you to. Also, in order to cast spells you have to do some sort of mouse movement that can be annoying to remember and perform. Also you do not have control of the camera so it can be difficult to see things.

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