Harry Potter: Order of the Phoenix (PS2)

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is an action game for the Playstation 2. The story takes place during the book of the same name written by J.K Rowling and follows Harrys fifth year of education at the magical Hogwarts school. With Voldemort back and no one willing to believe both Harry and Dumbledore the wizarding world is a more dangerous place and Harry has to recruit an army of followers, there is also a nasty new Defence against the Dark Arts teacher Delores Umbridge who is from the Ministry of Magic who will try her best to stop Harry from causing any panic! The game does skim over the storyline so for the full experience you will still need to ...  Read the complete review

This game is the most recent outing of harry potter on the video game market and is certainly a good one. The game shares its plot with that of the fifth harry potter book and manages to turn it into a surprisingly workable video game plot. When first playing this game the first thing that you notice is that the graphics have received a huge boost and everything now looks really smooth. The next thing that is immediately apparent is that the spell system has had yet another change and this time it is really good. You can cast any spell you want at any time of your choice. Doing this involves making a movement particular to each spell using one of the ...  Read the complete review

I love Harry Potter, so it seemed right to buy the game to my favourite film. I already had the DS version of this which was a massive let down but however found in the HMV sale, the PS2 version. I've never actually played a 'bad' PS2 game so thought it would be interesting to see if this version would be any better than the terrible Nintendo DS version. A Bit About Harry Potter Harry Potter is the exceptionally famous boy wizard who is in his 5th year at Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry. His parents were killed by the evil Lord Voldemort, in which he tried to kill Harry as well but failed. So it is Harry's life goal to kill Voldemort at all ...  Read the complete review