- Publisher: EA Games
- Release Date: Jun 25, 2007
- Also On: PC, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PSP, Wii, Xbox 360
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With trickier minigames and less wandering and this would have been a winner. [Sept 2007, p.80]
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Order of the Phoenix delivers nice graphics and music, and some genuinely fun activities (including a multiplayer mode) but the endless tasks seem more like prepping for O.W.L.S. than playing a game. [Aug 2007, p.84]
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Feels limited, and your powers seem squandered on simply fixing statues or any of the other humdrum tasks you're instructed to complete.
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64A resoundingly flat adventure that fails to inspire more than fleeting moments of touch-screen enjoyment that are never expanded upon. Running backwards and forwards across Hogwarts may admirably show the level of detail EA has invested in the game's environments, but it also clearly exposes the overall lack of content unfolding within it.
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60The minigames are fun and make fantastic use of the DS touch screen in different and interesting ways. At the same time actually reaching the games is frustrating and boring, and the story is handled so poorly that even playing through the game I didn't get much of an idea what the film will be all about.
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Running is done clumsily with the D-pad, while the stylus is only used in minigames. [Sept 2007, p.70]
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The minigames aren't anything you haven't seen before on the DS, but they do a good job of breaking up the tedium of travelling Hogwarts.
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53If your Harry Potter fandom tells you that it's worth spending your money to see an ugly representation of your favorite character run around an ugly representation of your favorite school doing boring things, ignore it and buy a better game. Trust me.
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50Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix could have been so much better - the graphics are pretty good, the sound is passable but grates quickly and the mini-games are fun for a short while. However, the gameplay is tedious, the AI is glitchy and the plotline and speech are compressed.
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The game of the film of the book has exploration, adventuring, action, and loads of mini-games but Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ends up being a confusing mush of ideas.
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50A few fun minigames don't make the watered-down story and tedious fetch quests tolerable.
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30Gamestyle is sure that die-hard, DS owning Potter fans will buy this game, and maybe even enjoy it a tiny bit, regardless of what we say here. For the rest of us though, this is one to steer clear of. Repetitive, tedious wandering and only marginally entertaining mini-games do not a proper game make.
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30Despite the enjoyable spell casting, the DS version of Order of the Phoenix simply isn't much fun. It's made even less enjoyable due to the poorly handled control and camera angles.
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20An utterly abysmal game.
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20What you get from this DS disaster instead, is a headache without even half the heart of the novel.
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