Harry potter and the order of the phoenix iso

Harry returns to Hogwarts to begin his fifth year learning to become a wizard. He is terrified to discover that the wizarding community ignored his story of Voldemort coming back, and nobody believes Harry he met the evil wizard. Cornelius Fudge, the Minister of Magic, thinks the whole story to be fabricated by Dumbledore in order for him to become the Minister himself.

This is why Fudge has appointed the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher — Dolores Umbridge — who is doing all she can to take control of the school.

So it was with some surprise that I found myself strangely captivated by the game. OOTP is a vast improvement on the other Harry Potter titles, and perhaps the first one to really do the franchise justice. Set in a free-roaming Hogwarts, the game features all of the locations fans have grown to love in glorious detail, from the animated paintings on the Grand Staircase to the pumpkin patch at Hagrid's Hut.

The cast are all present and correct too, with accurate likenesses of the onscreen actors and official voice-overs featured. Plus, there's more than a hint of GTA influence as you discover some of the many side-quests, collecting missions, secret passages and mini-games dotted around the wizard's school. As such, there's plenty to do beyond the main storyline, and the experience of exploring Hogwarts is made thoroughly enjoyable by the attention to detail EA have lavished upon this episode.

You'll also get hands-on experience with spells, as casting them is accomplished by moving the mouse in patterns while holding down one of the mouse buttons. Obviously inspired by the Wii controller, unfortunately the success rate of spellcasting on PC differs from great when you initially learn the spell to disastrous when you actually really need it. OOTP has some minor issues, most noticeably the Marauder's Map that annoyingly doesn't store any quest details, and the fact that Ron and Hermione can block you into tight spaces, leading me to call them names that I'm pretty sure don't crop up in Potter's vocabulary.

But overall, EA seem to have worked their magic to make OOTP an instantly likeable, captivating and lengthy game for kids and fans alike. Even if you're too old to be caught reading the book. Browse games Game Portals. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Win The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer Win Follow Us! Top downloads. List of top downloads. Latest releases.

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