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"Order of the Phoenix" Wins Award for Best Score of Video Game

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Posted by: Sue
March 08, 2008, 09:49 AM

Thanks to TLC reader Pete for letting us know the score to the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix video game was a recent winner at the Movie Music U.K. Awards. The music for the fifth Harry Potter video game, composed by James Hannigan, was named “Best Score-Game,” beating out scores from Halo 3, Lair, Bioshock and Mass Effect. You can read more about composer James Hannigan and hear excepts from his various works including a piece used frequently in the OotP game-”Welcome to Hogwarts”- here via this link, and watch a video interview with the composer on creating the score for the game from EA, here in our galleries.

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Alejandro Martinez

Cool, the music of that videogame is very cool!

Posted by Alejandro Martinez on March 08, 2008 @ 10:00 AM
Sam

yeah I agree with alejandro, the music in the great was great, and the video game was great too!

Posted by Sam on March 08, 2008 @ 10:08 AM
Prenz

Great news! Congratulations!!

Posted by Prenz on March 08, 2008 @ 10:26 AM
Matea

Congrats!!! Today is a happy day! My 18th birthday,OOTP’s wining more awards(I hope tommorow as well). YAY…I love you Leaky : )

Posted by Matea on March 08, 2008 @ 11:34 AM
Dave

Excellent…and thoroughly deserved.

Posted by Dave on March 08, 2008 @ 12:09 PM
emily?

i wanna get the game so bad…..great job everyone who worked on the game! i’ve heard it was amazing!!!

:)

Posted by emily? on March 08, 2008 @ 12:22 PM
emily?

and happy 18th birthday Matea!!!!!! lol

Posted by emily? on March 08, 2008 @ 12:23 PM
Professor Potter

I always thought many games soundtrack to be of high standards and even better than what hollywood films can muster. This is a great event to bring these unsung composer heroes to the fore. And yes OOtP video game was one of the best soundtracks. My favourite was Dreamfall (The Longest journey 2) – maybe that was the year before though, not sure.

Posted by Professor Potter on March 08, 2008 @ 12:25 PM
Mark

The music in the game was good, but I honestly think it’s a joke that it beat the epic soundtracks of Halo 3, Mass Effect, or Bioshock.

Posted by Mark on March 08, 2008 @ 12:49 PM
Dave

Mark…You have to be kidding… Whatever you feel about the game itself the music was extremely good.

Posted by Dave on March 08, 2008 @ 01:06 PM
Mark

I thought it was good, deserving of the nomination, but I just didn’t like it as much as the others. :)

Posted by Mark on March 08, 2008 @ 03:04 PM
isabela

Yay!

Posted by isabela on March 08, 2008 @ 03:10 PM
TPT

Huh? It was good but Halo 3 was better!

Posted by TPT on March 08, 2008 @ 06:28 PM
Agahnim

I agree with Mark. I’d have given it to Mario Galaxy or Bioshock.

Posted by Agahnim on March 09, 2008 @ 12:21 AM
Peter

The award is deserved if you ask me. The music in the other nominated games is also good (if a bit hyped) and they are very good games but the Ootp music is incredible.

Posted by Peter on March 09, 2008 @ 03:08 AM
Saber

The game was pretty good, I remember renting it a few weeks before the film came out. It was pretty nice, though my only complaints go to the lack of boss fights and the incredibly short story (and occasional poor acting here and there). But if there was one thing I liked, it was the score. Truly beautiful.

Another great thing about the game was the fixed combat system. While you had a very limited number of boss fights, the wand fighting system was incredibly original. Heres hoping the game play of OotP makes it into the last two games. Though, some more fighting tactics are welcome.

Posted by Saber on March 10, 2008 @ 03:28 AM
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