"Order of the Phoenix" Wins Award for Best Score of Video Game
Honors/AwardsMarch 08, 2008, 02:49 PM
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.
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.