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Harry Potter en de Halfbloed Prins for PlayStation Portable
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince for PlayStation Portable takes you back to Hogwarts during Harry's sixth school year. In this action-adventure, you explore the castle, talk to pupils and collect objects that others need. Behind the everyday school tasks, danger grows around Voldemort and Draco Malfoy. You help Dumbledore discover more about the dark wizard's past, while the mystery of the Half-Blood Prince runs through the story.
The PSP release builds many tasks around searching, collecting and trading. You search rooms and corridors, examine objects and exchange things you find with other characters. Magic helps with obstacles and during wizard duels, in which you choose attacks and try to defeat your opponent. Potions and small wizarding games also interrupt your journey. A conversation about a required object can therefore lead to a practical task, a duel or another search through the school.
Quidditch also has a place among the school activities, with practice for different positions on the pitch. You also play games including Gobstones, Exploding Snap and Wizard Skittles. This PSP version is single-player; the two-player duels from other releases are not included here. The adventure uses text windows to tell conversations and events. As a result, you not only follow the film's events but also spend time on the individual jobs and encounters within Hogwarts.
Region and language
Our PlayStation Portable games are European editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
You receive the physical UMD edition. You need a PSP with a UMD drive to play it; a PSP Go cannot play this disc.
Manual
Harry Potter en de Halfbloed Prins for PlayStation Portable includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of Harry Potter en de Halfbloed Prins
Electronic Arts released Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in 2009, working with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. The game appeared around the sixth Harry Potter film and uses its story as a starting point. EA Bright Light in Guildford was named as the developer in the announcements. The release followed 2007's Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, but on PSP it chose a different treatment of school life and the activities between major story events.
The name on the box covered different designs. On the larger consoles, the adventure revolved around direct duels, potions and chasing the Snitch, among other things. The PSP release placed more emphasis on finding objects, trading tasks and small games. The presentation differed too: conversations appeared as text rather than the extensive spoken scenes of the larger versions. This makes it a distinct handheld interpretation of the same film story, rather than simply an identical version on a smaller screen.
The series' history therefore shows how much Harry Potter games could differ between devices. The PSP had already received Goblet of Fire and Order of the Phoenix, each with a different balance between action and exploration. Half-Blood Prince added the sixth school year and its own collection structure. The original physical release appeared on UMD; later budget packaging did not turn the original adventure into a new game.
Similar games for PlayStation Portable
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix on PlayStation Portable also lets you walk through Hogwarts and help pupils. There, recruiting members for Dumbledore's Army takes centre stage, and you use spells to repair or move things. Half-Blood Prince places more emphasis on trading found objects and small activities. You visit the same wizarding world, but get a different school year and a different arrangement of tasks.
LEGO Batman: The Videogame for PlayStation Portable also combines a familiar fictional universe with searching and puzzle solving. Batman and Robin, however, build objects from loose LEGO bricks and switch between suits with different abilities. Half-Blood Prince uses conversations, magic and object trading to help you progress. LEGO Batman divides its action into distinct levels; Harry returns to Hogwarts' corridors and rooms for all kinds of jobs.
Daxter for PlayStation Portable gives a familiar supporting character the leading role in a three-dimensional adventure. Like Harry, he receives tasks from others and explores a recognisable world, but Daxter earns his living as a pest exterminator in Haven City. Jumping, climbing and hovering with his spray gun define his movements. Half-Blood Prince focuses less on nimble jumps and more on speaking to classmates, collecting things and carrying out wizarding activities.
Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters on PlayStation Portable mixes exploration with combat and equipment that opens up new possibilities. Ratchet travels through science-fiction worlds with a broad arsenal and looks for parts for his armour. Harry stays closer to the school setting and uses magic, conversations and collected objects. Both games let you control familiar characters on the handheld, but Ratchet's platform action moves more directly than Harry's sequence of search tasks and small school activities.
MediEvil Resurrection for PlayStation Portable combines a supernatural world with exploration, puzzles and combat. Sir Daniel Fortesque fights Zarok's monsters with weapons and walks through graveyards and other areas of Gallowmere. Harry uses spells and mainly explores a school with corridors, classrooms and pupils. Half-Blood Prince finds its variety in conversations and minigames; MediEvil builds its adventure more strongly around defeating enemies and finding routes through separate areas.
