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For the second time

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 37 / 50
Date: June 25, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This review is for the PC demo-version of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,
Pro:
Graphics is great,
Sound is good,
Cons:
Like Goblet of Fire the control-sytem is not designed for PC,
Here are list of problems:
1- keyboard and mouse not configurable,
2- Cannot use mouse to look around (ie control camera).
3- When turning mouse gestures off, there is no other functions will be assigned to it.
4- The camera does not follow behind the character (it is not the familiar third person camera).

Bottom line:
The control makes the game hard to play and take the fun out of it,
My suggestion is try the demo before you buy it.

I flush this stuff every day

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 18 / 26
Date: July 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I played the demo and it never gave enough time to see how the game was. Although the graphics were good, the controls were a nightmare. "Intuitive" wasn't even on my list of adjectives for the controls. It also seemed extremely boring.

Now that I have purchased the game (I'm a HP fan, it's a must) I am even more disappointed. I cannot even get the game to run on Vista 64 Ultimate. EA has not been helpful in the least.

My recommendation? Even if it runs on your system, avoid this game like the plague, it's Sominex on a disc (dull and snooz-worthy).

DVD-ROM, NOT CD-ROM

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 13
Date: July 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Beware! This is a DVD-rom, NOT a CD-rom. YOUR COMPUTER MUST HAVE A DVD-ROM DRIVE TO PLAY THIS GAME. If your computer only has a cd-rom drive, you will be unable to install, let alone play, the game. I did not discover this until I tried to install it and the computer would not recognize that there was even a disc in the drive. I finally found out from EA's telephone support line (I couldn't find anything about this problem on their website) that it is unplayable on my computer.

Umm....

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 10
Date: July 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Probably the worst gameI've ever purchased, all you do is run around hogwarts trying to find your way lighting tourches. There's no action of any kind and all the puzzles are ridicliously simple, the game gets repetitve real fast. The few duels in the game that you have are totally ridiclious since you don't even have health points, so you don't die. It's simply a horrible piece of junk, don't buy it, its not worth it.

Failure again

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 12
Date: July 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Once again EA creates a visually beautiful game that is unplayable. You spend most of your time running around trying to make the characters use spells with controls that are horrible. The first three games didn't have great graphics but did have ease of control and movement and were fun to play. Since then, with the release of Goblet of Fire and Order of the Phoenix,the games are very pretty but the ease of control and movement are terrible and the game play is frustrating. EA reached it's highest point in HP series of games with Prisoner of Azkaban, its all been downhill from there. Don't by this game it completely sucks.

Once again...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: July 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

EA didn't exactly learn their lesson from the GoF. The control sucks...while an improvment to GoF, it's not worth buying.

Buyer Beware

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: August 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

EA has really done it this time. BEWARE!! If you have an Intel processor for graphics this game will not work. I have XP with the latest graphics updates, Xtreme graphics, and drivers and the system keeps shutting the game down as a threat to computer. I also have well above the specs necessary that are stated. System says a line in the program is creating the problem, EA says the program will only run with certain graphics programs. Bottom line read the small print and check your computer specs. The ad for the product does not tell you all, check EA to find out which graphic programs will run the game properly. Even a vista program with a intel graphics program will not work properly. I tried. Kids extremely disappointed. We have all the other games and had no problem,however with this one I guess you need to buy a certain kind of computer to play it.

DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: July 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

We have have had so many problems with this game that it hasn't been worth the handful of times it has worked right. If you actually manage to get it working, you get so frustrated with trying to maneuver through it that you don't end up having much fun.

Save you money or buy games 1-3.

Very bad character movement

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: August 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have played every Harry Potter game that has come out. This is by far the worst. The characters are very hard to control. Sometimes when you want Harry to walk one way, you may have to press different directions to get him to go that way. In addition, it is very hard to point him in the right direction to do any spells. I gave up about 20 minutes in to the game. The cut scenes are also way too long and way too frequent. I'm not sure who tests these games but I can't imagine anyone being really comfortable with the controls.

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.

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