IGN has recently had the opportunity to play the next game in the Harry Potter franchise: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Take a look:
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Wii owners will be happy to learn that Electronic Arts is situating the Nintendo version of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince as its lead SKU. That means the game is being developed with Wii controls in mind first, and then ported to other systems. Players should find a more intuitive control scheme when the game ships just before the movie debuts in November. We recently got more hands-on time with several of Half-Blood Prince's mini-games, and also got to explore Hogwarts in the single-player story mode.
Developer EA Bright Light has set out to tell the story of Half-Blood Prince better than most movie games do. The story of the game follows the arc of the movie. You won't be going to places that aren't in the film or getting into fights that have nothing to do with J.K. Rowling's story. All of the gameplay is directly pulled from what we'll see in theaters.
Developer EA Bright Light has set out to tell the story of Half-Blood Prince better than most movie games do. The story of the game follows the arc of the movie. You won't be going to places that aren't in the film or getting into fights that have nothing to do with J.K. Rowling's story. All of the gameplay is directly pulled from what we'll see in theaters.
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