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Harry Potter en de Orde van de Feniks for PlayStation Portable
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix for PlayStation Portable lets you explore Hogwarts during Harry's fifth school year. Professor Umbridge keeps the pupils under strict control, while Harry wants to prepare others for Voldemort's return. With Ron and Hermione beside you, you seek pupils who want to join Dumbledore's Army. You help them with tasks, talk to familiar characters and discover how to make your way through more and more of the school.
Spells are not only used to hit opponents. Reparo repairs broken objects, while Wingardium Leviosa makes objects float. Accio pulls things towards you and Depulso pushes them away. The PSP assigns these actions to buttons and combinations of buttons. You explore classrooms and courtyards, move things and look for solutions to what a pupil asks of you. The Marauder's Map helps you follow the route to your next destination.
You play through the story alone, but there are also separate local wizard battles for two to six players through Ad Hoc. With your own game copies on PSP systems with wireless networking, you can play these matches together in the same room. You compete against each other rather than sharing a story campaign. During the adventure, you unlock more characters, locations and spells for these battles. The school journey and the separate duels thus offer two different ways to play in Harry's wizarding world.
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 Orde van de Feniks 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 Orde van de Feniks
Rebellion handled the PSP adaptation of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, which Electronic Arts released in 2007 with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. The game tied in with the fifth film and Harry's fifth school year from the books. After 2005's Goblet of Fire, the emphasis shifted towards exploring Hogwarts and helping pupils. Recruiting and teaching Dumbledore's Army connects those everyday school tasks to the conflict involving Umbridge and Voldemort.
For the overall production, EA worked closely with the filmmakers to make the castle recognisable. Executive producer Harvey Elliott explained that his team used film-set plans and visited the sets to record rooms, objects and lighting. Earlier films provided additional information about parts of the school shown less often in the fifth film. The environment therefore grew from more than isolated scenes: corridors, halls and courtyards had to function together as a school you could walk through.
On PSP, that approach received its own controls and a separate multiplayer component. Spells worked through button combinations, while the larger versions used other control methods. The portable release added local wizard battles but did not include the chess, Gobstones and Exploding Snap games from the larger versions. Half-Blood Prince appeared on the same handheld two years later. That sequel returned to Hogwarts again, with a different emphasis on collecting, object trading and small school activities.
Similar games for PlayStation Portable
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince for PlayStation Portable visits the same school during the following school year. There, you search for and trade many objects and take part in small wizarding activities between story tasks. Order of the Phoenix builds its adventure around recruiting pupils and using spells to solve their problems. Order also has separate local Ad Hoc battles; Half-Blood Prince on PSP is a single-player adventure.
LEGO Batman: The Videogame on PlayStation Portable also uses familiar characters to connect exploration and straightforward puzzles. Batman and Robin build with LEGO bricks and wear suits that overcome particular obstacles. Harry uses spells to repair, attract or levitate objects. Both ask you to examine an environment before choosing the right tool, but LEGO Batman works with separate levels rather than a continuous school.
Daxter for PlayStation Portable also lets you explore a world while carrying out tasks to solve a larger problem. He looks for the captive Jak while working as a pest exterminator in Haven City. His fly swatter and spray gun serve as both weapons and tools. Harry mainly uses spells and conversations with pupils in Hogwarts. Daxter requires precise jumps and movements more often than Order of the Phoenix.
Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters for PlayStation Portable also combines a single-player adventure with separate local competitions. In the main story, you use weapons and gadgets to overcome enemies and platforming obstacles. Harry's tools are spells that also solve pupils' everyday problems. Their shared mixture of exploration and action therefore produces different tasks: Ratchet travels between science-fiction locations, while Harry discovers new connections and activities within Hogwarts.
MediEvil Resurrection on PlayStation Portable sends you through a supernatural kingdom as Sir Daniel Fortesque. Like Harry, you encounter strange characters and must work out how to reach the next passage. Daniel uses swords and other weapons against monsters; Harry moves and repairs objects with magic. Order of the Phoenix chooses a school full of familiar faces and tasks, while MediEvil links eerie areas with comic undead characters.
