Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

DulleNL · 25 feb 2009

Informatie - IGN Q&A - Screenshots - Trailers - Achievements - Boxshot - Demo - Video Walkthroughs - Officiële website - Opmerkingen

Uitgever: EA
Ontwikkelaar: EA
Genre: Platformer (free roaming)
Release: Juni 2007

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Zoals je weet maakt Electronic Arts al vier jaar lang de videogames bij de Harry Potter films die er elk jaar verschijnen. Reeds vier delen, en een enkele afgeleide titel van de serie, zijn al uitgekomen. Met het vijfde deel in de serie die in 2007 uit zal komen zal ook een nieuwe videogame verschijnen, maar dit maal niet voor de Xbox, maar wel voor de Xbox 360. Natuurlijk ook voor vrijwel alle andere platformen. Hier onder wat details van de film en videogame.

In de vijfde Harry Potter film komt de jonge held terug naar Hogwarts om zijn vijfde schooljaar mee te maken. Tijdens dit jaar ontdekt hij dat de tovenaarsgemeenschap net doet alsof Harry Potter niet net gevochten heeft met de kwaadaardige Voldemort. Ze houden angstvallig hun ogen gesloten voor het feit dat deze duistere tovenaar weer rondloopt. De minister van Magie is bang dat Dumbledore, de hoofdmeester van Hogwarts, loopt te liegen over Voldemorts terugkeer om zijn positie te ondermijnen en zelf minister te worden. Hij laat een nieuwe leraar voor Duistere Kunsten aandraven om een oogje op Dumbledore en de studenten te houden, maar is blind voor het feit dat de tovenaren en leerlingen door hun focus op verdedigingsspreuken kwetsbaar worden voor de duistere krachten die de wereld bedreigen.

Harry Potter, samen met Ron en Hermione beginnen hun eigen ‘Dumbledore’s Army’ met een klein groepje studenten en leren van Harry hoe zich te verdedigen tegen de Duistere Kunsten, zodat ze kunnen vechten voor hun bestaan. In de videogame van deze spannende nieuwe Harry Potter zullen de spelers de verschillende omgevingen aandoen uit de nieuwe film, maar ook verschillende nieuwe karakters kunnen spelen. Zo zul je naast Harry ook met Dumbledore en Sirius Black kunnen spelen. Uiteraard met je toverstaf kunnen bewijzen dat jij de enige echte tovenaar bent die de wereld kan beschermen, als het jongetje dat de verschrikkelijke vloek overleefde.

Het spel komt ten tijde van de release van de film uit voor de Xbox 360, wat ergens in juni zal zijn. Ongetwijfeld zullen de fans van de serie graag Harry Potters nieuwe avontuur naspelen. Check hier onder de eerste drie screenshots van de hoofdpersonen.
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Interview: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
EA tell us what steps it took to ensure that your next visit to Hogwarts will be the most immersive yet. New media, too.
by Matt Casamassina

April 20, 2007 - EA is gearing up to release the latest installment of the Harry Potter franchise to coincide with the release of the new feature film. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix will chronicle the events of the fifth book and movie in the series, taking gamers into a more immersive Hogwarts than ever before. We recently chatted with the title's executive producer, Harvey Elliott, about what we can expect. Here's what he had to say.

IGN: In The Order of the Phoenix, Harry, Hermione and Ron are growing up. How has that been reflected in the game?

Harvey Elliott: Well, for starters the obvious change is that they are visually older. We facial scanned each of the actors as they came off set to get up-to-the-minute data to ensure that they look exactly like the characters they portray in the movie. We also see their magic has improved and they are becoming more powerful wizards. And finally, with the vast majority of the cast reprising their roles from the movies, their characters really come out in the game -- as a result, they are definitely more determined and a little less prepared to listen to 'authority.'

IGN: How closely does the title follow the look and style of the upcoming feature film?

Harvey Elliott: One of our team mantras this year is to get absolute movie authenticity. Because such a large part of the movie is set in Hogwarts, we have gone to extreme lengths to recreate the locations from the movie in the game -- perhaps more than any movie game ever. It started with us working with the movie team to construct a 3D virtual Hogwarts -- getting their blue prints of the movie sets, going to the exterior locations with tape measurers and high-end digital cameras, and reviewing how these locations have been translated into the movies, poring over every detail. There were some areas described in the books that haven't yet been seen in the movies so we had some fascinating conversations between the teams to describe and then create those 'authentically.' Back in October, the experience of running around Hogwarts was surreal -- the castle was fully built, but the walls looked like architects' paper because we'd literally scanned the drawings in. Then we got a bit obsessive with the detail and took thousands of photographs on the film sets, to ensure that we captured the elements in every room, courtyard and corridor. As the movie has moved through production, we've constantly revisited the set to check, for example, how the lighting changed from concept to the final shoot and adjusted ours to match.

IGN: Would you say that Order of the Phoenix is darker than, say, Goblet of Fire or Prisoner of Azkaban?

Harvey Elliott: The storyline underpinning the game is definitely darker in places than Goblet or Azkaban, with Voldemort returning to power, but no one believing Harry or Dumbledore that he's back, and with senior wizards at the Ministry of Magic intent on burying the truth -- most noticeably Dolores Umbridge, who takes over the school during the school year and makes it a really uncomfortable place to be. It's up to Harry to find a way to convince everyone Voldemort has returned. When Harry returns to school he finds himself in a Hogwarts filled with students and teachers who think that he's been lying about the return of Voldemort, he is forced to physically hurt himself in detention, Professor Umbridge bans Quidditch, and then in the final explosive battles, one of the key characters dies. Having said all that, the focus of the game, like the movie, is entertainment. We have added a whole new layer of gameplay that balances some of this darkness by allowing the player to cast magic in and around the school not just to fight the evil Slytherins, but to uncover its many secrets around our open world Hogwarts.

IGN: Does the game at all explore Harry's boyhood crushes?

Harvey Elliott: Oh yes, we had fun recreating the turmoil of teenage relationships. Whenever Cho and Harry meet in the game, they fumble around for the right words, and most times Harry just fails to say the right thing and ends up feeling a bit stupid. And in the background, Ron is totally oblivious to the whole romance, occasionally making it worse for Harry by criticizing Cho for her sudden support of the Tornados Quidditch team just because they're playing well -- although at one point he does ask Hermione if she's noticed Harry acting a bit strangely around Cho. The script is really strong. And, of course, we feature the famous first kiss.

IGN: How is Hogwarts represented in The Order of the Phoenix? Is it an open world, are the level loads, etc.?

Harvey Elliott: Making it an open world was a huge task, but one the team have met incredibly well. We set the bar very, very high: to create an open world game that looks better than traditional linear games, and build it in a way that the player never has to pause for a load screen, and we don't change the architecture of movie Hogwarts just to make it easier for ourselves. We don't believe that open world has to mean poor graphic quality so we've pushed really hard to make it look and feel amazing. And this isn't just for next gen, we set the same high bar on PS2. I've seen so many people pick up the controller in the Great Hall, run up the Grand Staircase, pick a door (or secret passageway) to run through and two hours later they're still astonished that they're finding new rooms, new courtyards, new professors and students to talk to and of course, more secrets to discover. They just get blown away by the scale of the castle. Fortunately, we've added a magical navigation system that allows you to select your destination from the marauder's map and be led in the right direction by magical footprints until you start to learn the layout.

IGN: Are you satisfied with the new Wii controls? How are the Wii remote and nunchuk utilized?

Harvey Elliott: At some point in the development we just wondered whether Nintendo started their prototyping around the Wii controller by asking themselves "what would be perfect for a Harry Potter game?". I mean, seriously, it's a wand! So as the player waves the wand around, the game recognizes the gesture and casts the spell. It really feels like you're casting magic. If you want to set an object on fire, you simply flick the wand quickly from left to right, as if you were striking a match. If you want to levitate an object in the world using wingardium leviosa, just raise the wand and the nunchuk together and the object will lift, and then moving the wand around will move the object in the world. It's pretty much exactly how you would imagine it. And in combat it works the same way - if you want to knock your opponent down, just give them a shove, or to take their wand away, snatch backwards - it just feels great. Because the control is a wand in Harry's hand, we've even found that you don't need the sensor bar to cast magic, and instead only use it for optional fine-targeting, which just adds to your immersion in the game.
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[GB]Trailers:[/GB]
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[GB]Boxshot:[/GB]

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[GB]Demo:[/GB]

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix™: The Videogame - Demo - Uitgebracht: 13-7-2007 - Gratis
Bestandsgrootte: 510 MB

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[GB]Video Walkthroughs:[/GB]

Ok dan, hier zijn alle walkthrough filmpjes die ik heb gemaakt.
Allemaal op verzoek, maar het is best geinig om te doen, dus mss maak ik er nog meer

Harry Potter: OotP DADA walkthrough
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Harry Potter: OotP 2nd Floor walkthrough
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Harry Potter: OotP Stone Circle walkthrough
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Harry Potter: OotP Paved Courtyard walkthrough
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Harry Potter: OotP Gargoyle Locations
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Harry Potter: OotP Hagrid's Hut walkthrough
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Harry Potter: OotP Gryffindor Common Room walkthrough
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Harry Potter: OotP Great Hall walkthrough
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Harry Potter: OotP Herbology walkthrough
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Harry Potter: OotP Potions Walkthrough
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Harry Potter: OotP Clocktower + Courtyard Walkthrough
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Harry Potter: OotP Feeding the Thestrals
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Snape's Mini Quest Walkthrough
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Harry Potter: OotP Viaduct + Viaduct Entrance
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Harry Potter: OotP: Retrieving CC's camera
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Harry Potter OotP: Finding Luna's Belongings
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Harry Potter OotP: Trophy Room, Library, Prefect, Dormitory
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Harry Potter OotP: Owlery Walkthrough
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Harry Potter OotP: Weasley's Packages locations
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[GB]Officiële website:[/GB]
www.harrypotter.ea.com

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[GB]Opmerkingen:[/GB]

Waarschijnlijk zal ik de enige zijn die naar deze game uitkijkt, en erg onder de indruk is van de trailer
Maar het kan toch zeker niet dat er zelfs nog geen topic is over deze game!

hier ook gelijk de 2 (erg vette) movie trailers:
Trailer 1
Trailer 2 (ook in HD te downloaden)

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Kevf · 25 apr 2007

Ik kan de trailers niet op mijn werk zien. Maar ook zonder trailers kijk ik uit naar deze game. Deze game is natuurlijk bij uitstek geschikt om te spelen met mijn zoon en daarnaast vind ik Harry Potter zelf ook best vermakelijk

DulleNL · 25 apr 2007

Kevf zei: ↑

Ik kan de trailers niet op mijn werk zien. Maar ook zonder trailers kijk ik uit naar deze game. Deze game is natuurlijk bij uitstek geschikt om te spelen met mijn zoon en daarnaast vind ik Harry Potter zelf ook best vermakelijk
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Met je zoon(tje?)
tss. Harry Potter blijft dus een kinderlijk imago houden
De games (en vooral de boeken en films) worden steeds donkerder. Zelfs mijn zus wilt de film graag zien (wilt wel wat zeggen). En alleen de trailer al is uitermate ongeschikt voor kinderogen.

Maar aangezien je ook zelf de game speelt vergeef ik het je

ik ben alleen nog een beetje aan het twijfelen tussen de Wii en de 360 versie:
Wii voor de controls, en de 360 voor de graphics en achievements

Kevf · 25 apr 2007

Dat was idd al een beetje het probleem met het vierde deel van de film. De agerating loopt ontzettend snel omhoog. Dus mijn zoon mocht officieel de eerste twee/drie delen wel zien, maar deel vier kreeg ineens een rating van 9 0f 12 oid......

Lekker handig voor die kids.

Anyways ik heb van de eerste drie delen ook echt wel genoten. Deel vier was aardig maar veel te veel gerusht.

Shinobi of the Wind · 25 apr 2007

Aan de graphics zal het iig niet liggen. Ziet er prima uit als ik het zo zie. \o/

AgentSmith · 25 apr 2007

Zal wel een game worden met makkelijke achievments denk ik. Net zo iets als Turtles.

Cybercon · 25 apr 2007

DulleNL zei: ↑

ik ben alleen nog een beetje aan het twijfelen tussen de Wii en de 360 versie:
Wii voor de controls, en de 360 voor de graphics en achievements
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Je verwacht toch niet van EA dat ze veel moeite gaan steken in de Wii controls eh?

DulleNL · 25 apr 2007

Cybercon zei: ↑

Je verwacht toch niet van EA dat ze veel moeite gaan steken in de Wii controls eh?
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nee, dus daarom neig ik ook naar de 360 versie, want wat ze tot nu toe hebben beschreven over de Wii controls.... :{

IGN: Are you satisfied with the new Wii controls? How are the Wii remote and nunchuk utilized?

Harvey Elliott: At some point in the development we just wondered whether Nintendo started their prototyping around the Wii controller by asking themselves "what would be perfect for a Harry Potter game?". I mean, seriously, it's a wand! So as the player waves the wand around, the game recognizes the gesture and casts the spell. It really feels like you're casting magic. If you want to set an object on fire, you simply flick the wand quickly from left to right, as if you were striking a match. If you want to levitate an object in the world using wingardium leviosa, just raise the wand and the nunchuk together and the object will lift, and then moving the wand around will move the object in the world. It's pretty much exactly how you would imagine it. And in combat it works the same way - if you want to knock your opponent down, just give them a shove, or to take their wand away, snatch backwards - it just feels great. Because the control is a wand in Harry's hand, we've even found that you don't need the sensor bar to cast magic, and instead only use it for optional fine-targeting, which just adds to your immersion in the game.
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Als je de boeken leest en de films hebt gezien, dan weet je dus dat de bewegingen die ze willen dat je maakt niet overeenkomen met hoe het hoort....
Dan speel ik het liever met controller, betere graphics en achievements.

Dominick · 25 apr 2007

Hoe het hoort ? Nu weet ik er het fijne niet van, dus hoe behoor je je toverstaf te bewegen ? Zijn daar regels voor ?

DulleNL · 25 apr 2007

Dominick zei: ↑

Hoe het hoort ? Nu weet ik er het fijne niet van, dus hoe behoor je je toverstaf te bewegen ? Zijn daar regels voor ?
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De spreuk waarmee ik in mijn hoofd zit heeft een bepaalde beweging nodig: Wingardium Leviosa.
Nu weet ik eigenlijk niet meer zeker of bij iedere spreuk een beweging in de boeken is beschreven, maar in de film met deze spreuk iig wel.

For human wizards and witches, it is used by saying "Wingardium Leviosa!" while making a "swish and flick" movement with the wand. This spell is also used in the game "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone."
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Dat is iig iets anders dan wat EA je wilt laten doen.
Jammer...

friden · 25 apr 2007

Lijkt me best een toffe game om eens te spelen maar dan wel als hij €30,- is... de boeken vond/vind ik altijd erg leuk dus

Joene90 · 25 apr 2007

Cybercon zei: ↑

Je verwacht toch niet van EA dat ze veel moeite gaan steken in de Wii controls eh?
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Zoals ze tot nu toe met al hun sportgames wel hebben gedaan bedoel je? :

DulleNL · 27 apr 2007

Interview: Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix
The game's producer talks darkness and missions.
by Matt Casamassina

April 26, 2007 - EA is gearing up to release the latest installment of the Harry Potter franchise to coincide with the release of the new feature film. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix will chronicle the events of the fifth book and movie in the series, taking gamers into a more immersive Hogwarts than ever before. Today, we're posting the second half of our interview with the title's executive producer, Harvey Elliott He discusses everything from the darkness of the game to new mission structures.

IGN: Harry begins to come into his own in the Order of Phoenix. Are his spell-casting abilities enhanced for the game?

Harvey Elliott: Harry is now a pretty competent wizard and so his magic is not just getting stronger but also more varied. We've dramatically increased the number of spells he can cast, which has allowed us to create much more varied gameplay. We've also enhanced the way the player casts spells. I've never seen Harry Potter cast a spell by pressing a button on his wand - he paints a shape in the air with his wand and the magic flies out. So we've given this experience to the player by giving them direct control of Harry's wand arm, using the right analog stick on PS2 and Xbox360, the Wiimote on the Wii and of course the SixAxis control on the PS3. If you want to push something away, you move the analog stick forward, flick the Wiimote forward or move the SixAxis towards the screen. It's really cool, very natural and makes casting spells a much more magical experience!.

IGN: Would you say that Order of the Phoenix is darker than, say, Goblet of Fire or Prisoner of Azkaban?

Harvey Elliott: The school is absolutely full of discoveries, each one rewarded with discovery points that when collected will upgrade Harry, Ron and Hermione's magical ability and better prepare them for the battles ahead. Each discovery relates to a physical part of Hogwarts as opposed to being a generic 'collectible'. For example, you can use your incendio spell to reveal and light the floating candles in the Great Hall, or you can use your magic to uncover secret symbols in the courtyards and through experimenting with magic find bigger discoveries throughout the castle. And with each you make a permanent change, physically altering the appearance of the school. Along with upgrading your magic, and making you more powerful we also reveal a secret room in the castle, called "The Room of Rewards" where you'll unlock trophies and reward movies including exclusive interviews with the movie cast. The great thing we've found from the players this year is that different people play in different ways -some love hunting down the discoveries, but others love the wizard combat, or just following the narrative-based gameplay.

And we've also added a number of really fun Hogwarts mini-games based on the games that students play in the books - wizard chess (a full game of chess exactly like the movie experience in Sorcerers Stone where the pieces smash each other apart), gobstones (similar to marbles, but more messy as the name suggests) and exploding snap (like the card game snap, but…. more explosive). You can play any of these games, with different rule sets by walking up to students scattered around the castle. Each game has a number of champions that you have to beat, and all of these again generate discovery.

IGN: What are some of the missions that Harry and friends will embark upon in this latest Potter adventure?

Harvey Elliott: We have some really cool missions this year, ranging in scale and style. Some are dramatic, some make you laugh, some are quick to complete, some take longer and have multiple parts. One of my personal favourites is collecting Colin Creavey's camera, involving moving a bench, burning a plant, repairing a drainpipe and a ledge and then levitating the camera - with some hysterical dialog from Colin who is Harry's biggest fan. There's a brilliant wizard battle at the Stone Circle (just up from Hagrid's Hut) where its 6 against 6 - the screen is just filled with magic being cast in all directions, a bit like fireworks display. When Professor Umbridge takes control of the school, there's a whole series of "prank" missions involving turning courtyards into swamps and messing around with the tannoy system.

Our open world gameplay, however, isn't just about running around Hogwarts. It's about giving the player the freedom to play the game the way they want. In one of the main gameplay sections, your job is to get all 27 members of Dumbledore's Army into the Room of Requirement so that you can teach them defensive magic to prepare for Voldemort's attack. The DA members are in different locations around the school, and you have to complete a mission for each of them - that might be finding the talking gargoyles in the school for Dean Thomas, helping Fred and George hide their secret packages in the boathouse, or defeating the bullies who are taunting Susan Bones. The freedom comes from the fact that you can start and finish any of these missions in any order. You can have a number of missions "open" at the same time - and complete them either in a preferred order (ie start with your favourite type of mission, or favourite character) or in an order based on how you move around the castle. If you're looking for the gargoyles, you'll probably stumble across one or two on the way to help Ginny in the Common Room, or when you're heading over to Umbridge's office under the invisibility cloak.
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Klinkt tot nu toe wel allemaal goed
Vooral die Open World gameplay spreekt me in deze game wel aan (ik weet niet of dat in de vorige games ook al zo was, maar volgens mij waren die meer level-gebaseerd)

DulleNL · 5 mei 2007

Ik weet het, niemand interesseert het ook maar een klein beetje, maar voor de mensen die wel wachten op deze game (en het niet durven toegeven ) nog wat meer info:

'Potter' world reimagined in new EA Games Title

MAY 4, 2007 at 5:11 AM

Posted by CHEESER
Source: EA Games

Electronic Arts (EA), the company behind the Harry Potter video games, set up a "Fan Council" last year to get feedback on what people would most like to see in the upcoming Order of the Phoenix game. The first meeting of the council was in August 2006 and last Thursday the group was invited back to see what had been achieved in the intervening eight months.

Charlotte, HPANA's correspondent in the UK, made the trip and filed the following report.

Our day started at 10 a.m. with all the fansite representatives gathering at EA's new studios in Guildford for breakfast. There were many familiar faces among the EA team but unfortunately no Matt Birch (the extremely enthusiastic game producer was missed by several of us who met him last time).

We were officially welcomed to the studios by Harvey Elliott, the game's executive producer, who emphasized how important the feedback they've received through the Fan Council has been. The team checks the forums on the various fansites regularly and they've been really pleased to see your reactions to the screencaps, interviews and videos as they've been released. Harvey also showed us the opening sequence for the OotP game: A camera follows Hedwig through the courtyard, into the entrance hall and around Hogwarts, before coming to rest on Harry's arm in the Gryffindor Common Room (GCR). When we visited in August, only the GCR had been completed in any detail, so to see that the rest of Hogwarts was now completed to the same high standard was fantastic.

Producer Justin Manning and designer Chris Roberts then told us about what the team had been working on in the last eight months. They have:

* Built 70+ Hogwarts locations, Little Whinging, Grimmauld Place and the Ministry of Magic from movie blueprints and set photographs.
* Designed and implemented 60 missions (examples include finding a book on healing balms in the Library after a detention with Prof. Umbridge, and playing games such as exploding snap, gobstones and wizarding chess).
* Created 90+ characters to meet and interact with. Over 9,600 lines of dialogue have been recorded and 22 actors from the movies are voicing their characters. The dialogue includes a mixture of lines from the book, the movie and some new material written by a professional scriptwriter (which they've tried to ensure is in character).
* Made the game on eight platforms in 23 languages.

They also talked about what they've learned from you, the fans:

* You want to play more of the story
* You want to meet the characters you love from the fiction
* Characters should be like they are in fiction
* You want Hogwarts to look and sound like it does in the movie
* You want to explore Hogwarts and use magic
* You want to see the ghosts and talk to the portraits
* You want to go to classes
* You want to play wizard games
* You want elements that the film leaves out

To respond to these concerns the number of characters has been dramatically increased since Goblet of Fire. There are students from various houses, both male and female; and there are ghosts (including Moaning Myrtle who looks after the "Room of Rewards") and portraits to interact with. Dialogue from the book is there including Hermione's famous remark that Ron has the "emotional depth of a teaspoon", and music from the movie soundtrack is ever-present as the rights to Hedwig's Theme were licensed.

Sadly, there were some things which they wanted to do but haven't managed:

* Swapping between characters; there are selected points during the game when it will be possible to play as a different character (e.g. Sirius), but swapping to other characters seemed to detract from the essential plot of OotP which is Harry-focused and about Harry becoming a leader.
* More classroom games and taking your O.W.L.s; there are some classroom games but the team hasn't had time to do as many as they would have liked. On the handheld versions there will be some O.W.L. revision but there won't be exams.
* Flying; the main reason for not including flying is that Harry is banned from playing Quidditch in OotP. However, Quidditch has been included for the handheld platforms.
* The thestrals are not present as it was decided that there was little steering to be done there and the initial movie scripts also appeared to be playing down the appearance of the thestrals.

The dramatic exit of Fred and George, however, is definitely in the game!

For the rest of the fansite day we were split into houses (Slytherins rock!). It was finally time to test the game (I'll tell you more about that in my third report) before we broke for lunch.

After a fabulous buffet lunch we got the chance to have a mini-tour of the studios guided by Justin. We saw the latest revisions to Hagrid's Hut which has apparently been reworked several times to get it just right as it's such an iconic location. We were able to see the various layers – the basic art layer of the wall of Hagrid's Hut, one black and white layer denoting how much 'shine' each brick should have, and one further layer which determined whether a brick protruded from the wall or not. We also saw one of the courtyards with and without lighting – the difference in detail being phenomenal. It was like comparing computer graphics from years ago with the very best from today.

The fan council under house banners at EA

Then it was off to see James Slavin who treated us to an extract of music from the game. The clip we heard was from the climatic battle between Voldemort and Dumbledore at the Ministry of Magic. Hedwig's Theme has been reworked into several different versions by composer James Hannigan to suit the varying moods of the game. The version we heard was a very dramatic interpretation with brass and drums and it was absolutely superb! It transported me to the duel even though there were no images to look at. The music was played by the London Philharmonic Orchestra and a 12 voice choir which was triple-tracked so it sounds like 36 singers. The audio team have also been out and about recording various sounds including the clink of instruments for the hospital wing. And of course, they've had actors in to do their lines. The following characters in the movies are being voiced by their film counterparts: Ron, Hermione, Fred, George, Luna, Ginny, Draco, Crabbe, Goyle, Colin Creevey, Tonks and Prof. Flitwick. Dan Radcliffe was busy performing in Equus so Harry is voiced by Adam Sop who also recorded some of Dan's ADR (Automated Dialogue Replacement) for the movie.

The rest of our afternoon was spent interviewing Harvey (Executive Producer), Wayne Stables (CG Supervisor), Chris (Designer) and Kelvin Tulte (Art Director), getting answers to your specific questions. More to come on that next week!

Finally, the whole group met up again for a bite to eat and drink. We were able to give EA positive feedback on what we thought of the day and the game, and also expressed our appreciation at being involved in the Fan Council. In summing up the day, I can only repeat what I said to them: every time I go there I'm blown away, not just by the game, which is fabulous, but also by the enthusiasm and friendliness of the team.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix will be released on June 29, 2007 and will be available on the following platforms: Nintendo Wii™, PlayStation® 3, Xbox 360™, PlayStation® 2, PSP® (PlayStation® Portable), Nintendo DS™, Game Boy® Advance, and Windows PC.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QacFBvCv22Q

tmffirework · 5 mei 2007

Ik vind de trailer er lelijk uitzien, en ik vind harry potter al niks. Dus niks voor mij

Margo · 6 mei 2007

Ik vind jammer dat hij niet op de xbox uitkomt :{ Ik vind de eerste 2 games van Harry Potter slecht maar de derde vond ik best leuk, met de vierder heb ik een probleem, misschien dat jullie mij kunnen helpen..

Ik heb gewoon een normale xbox niets aangebeurd..en hij doet het gewoon goed, behalve als ik de game "Harry Potter and the goblet of fire" erin stop dan maakt hij zal maar zeggen een opstijg lawaai als hij moet nadenken en als hij teveel moet nadenken dan zegt hij dat de disc vuil of beschadigt is, maar dit kan niet want bij een vriendin van mij doet hij het wel gewoon goed...

Bovendien bij andere spellen doet hij dit nooit..en schoonmaken heeft geen zin, dat heb ik al geprobeerd, Zou iemand misschien weten wat ik hieraan kan doen??

Als ik vier niet aan de praat krijg koop ik hem wel voor op de pc en deel 5 ook als ze hem alleen op xbox360 laten uitkomen

Joene90 · 6 mei 2007

Margo zei: ↑

Ik vind jammer dat hij niet op de xbox uitkomt :{ Ik vind de eerste 2 games van Harry Potter slecht maar de derde vond ik best leuk, met de vierder heb ik een probleem, misschien dat jullie mij kunnen helpen..

Ik heb gewoon een normale xbox niets aangebeurd..en hij doet het gewoon goed, behalve als ik de game "Harry Potter and the goblet of fire" erin stop dan maakt hij zal maar zeggen een opstijg lawaai als hij moet nadenken en als hij teveel moet nadenken dan zegt hij dat de disc vuil of beschadigt is, maar dit kan niet want bij een vriendin van mij doet hij het wel gewoon goed...

Bovendien bij andere spellen doet hij dit nooit..en schoonmaken heeft geen zin, dat heb ik al geprobeerd, Zou iemand misschien weten wat ik hieraan kan doen??

Als ik vier niet aan de praat krijg koop ik hem wel voor op de pc en deel 5 ook als ze hem alleen op xbox360 laten uitkomen
Klik om te vergroten...

Ik zou proberen terug te gaan naar de winkel en je disc omruilen.. Als 'ie het dan nog niet doet ligt het waarschijnlijk aan je xbox, en moet je even ms bellen.

Margo · 6 mei 2007

Ik heb al 3 verschillende geprobeert en geen van alle doen het, ik vind het zo vaag, verder doet hij het perfect....

Joene90 · 6 mei 2007

Margo zei: ↑

Ik heb al 3 verschillende geprobeert en geen van alle doen het, ik vind het zo vaag, verder doet hij het perfect....
Klik om te vergroten...

Dat is inderdaad erg apart dan.. Helaas kan je dit xbox-spel niet op de 360 spelen volgens xbox.nl, anders had je misschien handig over kunnen stappen naar een 360 zodat je ook deel 5 kan spelen. Maarja, de pc-versie 'aanschaffen' is misschien het handigst dan.

DulleNL · 22 mei 2007

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