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EA Announces "Half-Blood Prince" Game Due This Fall

HBP Film
Posted by: Sue
April 22, 2008, 05:20 PM

Attention all Harry Potter video game lovers! EA, makers of the Harry Potter games, announced today that the upcoming Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince video game will be released to coincide with the arrival of the sixth Harry Potter film, which is due in theaters November 21, 2008. According to TeamXBOX, in this new game “players will return to Hogwarts to help Harry survive a fraught sixth year. They will also have a chance to engage in exciting wizard duels, mix and brew magical ingredients in Potions class and take to the air to lead the Gryffindor Quidditch team to victory. Players may even get sidetracked by Ron’s romantic entanglements as they journey towards a dramatic climax and discover the identity of the Half-Blood Prince. ” Update:As included in the TeamXbox above, be sure to check out the first still of the game, or you can see it here in our galleries.

Reps for the companies involved are cited with the following statements: “We believe that the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince video game represents a milestone in the movie tie-in genre,” said Harvey Elliott, Head of EA Bright Light studio in the UK where the Harry Potter franchise has its home. “Building on the technological advancements of previous games in the series and with a particular focus on the unique control system of Nintendo’s WiiTM, the team here is working closely with the filmmakers to create an immersive interactive experience that captures the story, the action, the excitement and, above all, the fun of the film. ”

“Working with EA, we look forward to offering fans a compelling Harry Potter video game, one which captures the thrilling storyline and high visual quality of the movie,” said Scott Johnson, Vice President, Business Development for Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. “The adherence to the rich fiction is a trademark of this franchise and with Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince fans will experience the most authentic and enjoyable game in the series to date.”

We will update when pre-orders for the Half-Blood Prince game become available. The game is due to be released on the Wii, Playstation 3, XBOX 360, Playstation 2, PSP< Nintendo DS platforms as well as for Windows PC, Macintosh, and mobile devices.

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42 Comments

Will

So far the only HP game remotely good was the original CoS. All the others were run around and fetch this and that games with nothing to them (and far to easy). “Yes, let’s skip almost everything at the ministry and make Harry clean up puddles of water instead.” Thats what happened in OotP and I haven’t got much hope for this one either. Well, here’s hoping it turns out good.

Posted by Will on April 23, 2008, 01:22 AM report to moderator
Princeyboy

I REALLY REALLY hope this one turns out well- OOTP was a bit of a disappointment to be quite honest- really nice looking and awesome graphics but severely lacking content and fun-wise (who wants to go around a castle just fixing things?!)

I liked the gameplay of Goblet of Fire alot better- if they can mix those two together -the graphics and ability to roam the castle freely AND a good game storyline/stuff to do, it would be positively brill

Posted by Princeyboy on April 23, 2008, 06:09 AM report to moderator
younger granger

This is awesome. I can’t wait to get it! I really liked the last one, it was way better than the first three. I hope this one gets even better.

Posted by younger granger on April 23, 2008, 07:23 AM report to moderator
dave

loved the music in the last one, is the same composer doing this one?

Posted by dave on April 23, 2008, 08:14 AM report to moderator
Neil

I have a Wii, but I played OotP on the PS2. The graphics were great, but, I agree the content was rather disappointing. I finished it pretty quickly. HBP is an interesting one. I don’t know how they are going to turn it into a game. I mean the biggest action is at the end.

Posted by Neil on April 23, 2008, 09:50 AM report to moderator
vera

With some imagination they can get a lot of action in scenes likes slughorn’s house, summer at the burrow and D.A.D.A. lessons with Snape… So i hope they DO HAVE imagination…

Posted by vera on April 23, 2008, 10:08 AM report to moderator
Maks

I want more pictures!

Posted by Maks on April 23, 2008, 11:51 AM report to moderator
Hayley

I remember having two HP games … Don’t know what happened to them. >__< I might buy a DS out of my money the next time I’m payed and work my way through the games. :)

Posted by Hayley on April 23, 2008, 12:33 PM report to moderator
harrypotterfan

The screenshot looks a lot like OotP. Oh well, it still sounds awesome! I can’t wait until it comes out!

Posted by harrypotterfan on April 23, 2008, 02:46 PM report to moderator
mr_mundungus

I haven’t liked any games since HP&POA, every game (PC) since has not had steering the character with the mouse available, just with arrow and direction keys, where as before one could use the mouse to look around the enviroment and turn the character 360 degrees. I hate movement with arrow keys alone because it is all incremental motion and not as fluid as with the mouse. Like if you want to move in a direction 45 degrees away you must go up-side-up-side-up-side- instead of a smooth 45 degree turn and heading strait. Hate it. I won’t ever buy another game like that. I feel that I wasted my money on GOF. None of the modern FPS games are like that. Why would they move backward after the POA game?

Anyone got an explanation?

Posted by mr_mundungus on April 24, 2008, 05:26 AM report to moderator
ANYABHT

to mr_mundungus I think there is an option in the control panel every time you start the game that let’s you choose mouse over keyboard

Posted by ANYABHT on April 24, 2008, 09:41 PM report to moderator
mr_mundungus

ANYABHT – Thanks for the the reply, however it was totally impossible in GOF and stated such in the manual. Nor could I find any options to use the mouse in the OoTP Demo that I downloaded, but I would look again if you could tell me you are sure of this.

Dung

Posted by mr_mundungus on April 26, 2008, 07:07 AM report to moderator
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