The Harry Potter series of books may be up to its seventh and final entry now, but the movies, and subsequent game tie-ins, are just at the fifth – Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix. With the popularity of the magical series growing ever more with each new edition, the games have become more and more scrutinized by gamers and critics alike, meaning more pressure has been placed on the developer to produce a top quality product. With this being the first ever Wii edition, Cubed³ caught up with the EA development team working on it to see how things have turned out.
A former lead designer at EA Bright Light has revealed that Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was supposed to compete with Gears of War as "it was quickly established that this was the visual quality we had to beat".
It's safe to say that Harry didn't enjoy the same success on the video game scene as Marcus Fenix, but we'll give him good marks for trying.
Movie tie-in video games are generally made much too quickly, since they need to come out simultaneously with the movie. The result is short, shoddy games. So the developers of the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince game lucked out when the movie's release date was pushed back eight months. Those eight months gave developers a chance to make something that comes very close to being a good game."
If you want to turn your lady friend into a gaming fan, here's some advice from Xbox Live community manager Christa Phillips: Don't be a jerk.
Sounds obvious enough, but the statement earned knowing laughs and enthusiastic applause from the standing-room-only crowd gathered for the "How to Get Your Girlfriend Into Gaming" panel at the Penny Arcade gaming convention in Seattle recently.
Is there a chance Harry`S been waggling on the wii so much he might go wii exclusive?
easyer making a wii game than a next gen game.
it's best for harry potter to remain as a book and out of the videogame world so i can prove to everyone that videogames are better than all of the harry potter books combined.