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When it comes to the best co-op games a few names spring to mind. You've got modern options such as Elden Ring, Diablo 4, and Helldivers 2, reliable standbys like Valheim and Borderlands 2, and the all-time greats including Portal 2 and Monster Hunter World. One series I'll alway
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Five of the Best is a weekly series about the small details we rush past when we're playing but which shape a game in our memory for years to come. Details like the way a character jumps or the title screen you load into, or the potions you use and maps you refer back to. We've t
Five of the Best is a weekly series about the small details we rush past when we're playing but which shape a game in our memory for years to come. Details like the way a character jumps or the title screen you load into, or the potions you use and maps you refer back to. We've talked about so many in our Five of the Best series so far. But there are always more.
Five of the Best works like this. Various Eurogamer writers will share their memories in the article and then you - probably outraged we didn't include the thing you're thinking of - can share the thing you're thinking of in the comments below. Your collective memory has never failed to amaze us - don't let that stop now!
Today's Five of the Best is...
The LEGO Harry Potter games are huge adventures, with Years 1-4 and Years 5-7 covering the entire Harry Potter saga, from Philosopher's Stone through to the end of Deathly Hallows. Naturally, there are an abundance of LEGO Harry Potter cheats to unlock new spells, Golden Bricks,
The LEGO Harry Potter games are huge adventures, with Years 1-4 and Years 5-7 covering the entire Harry Potter saga, from Philosopher's Stone through to the end of Deathly Hallows.
Naturally, there are an abundance of LEGO Harry Potter cheats to unlock new spells, Golden Bricks, abilities that see you hoover up more studs and much more. As well as the original PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii releases, these codes will also work on the more recent PS4, Switch and Xbox One LEGO Harry Potter The Collection.
To enter codes in Years 1-4, go into Wiseacres Wizarding Supplies in the Diagon Alley hub (to get there, from the first proper mission onwards pause the game then select 'return to Leaky Cauldron'). Go outside and head down the street to Wiseacres Wizarding Supplies, then go inside and interact with the board upstairs.
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It's all in the wand. This tool of mystical power may be threaded with a phoenix feather in J. K. Rowling's ubiquitous mythology, but here, in the latest of Traveller's Tales' similarly successful mash-ups, its core is pure brick. Create and destroy. These twin, conflicting conce
It's all in the wand. This tool of mystical power may be threaded with a phoenix feather in J. K. Rowling's ubiquitous mythology, but here, in the latest of Traveller's Tales' similarly successful mash-ups, its core is pure brick.
Create and destroy. These twin, conflicting concepts have fired Lego's success for over 60 years: the joy of building a plastic house only to knock it down again; the wonder of being able to rebuild a spaceship as a handgun or a robot as a kitten. The wand presses this same power into our palms.
A purplish glow hovers around clumps of bricks on screen as you point. Squeeze the button and the bricks hover and swirl before assembling themselves into a meaningful shape: a bridge, a staircase, a statue. Meanwhile, another button unsheathes the wand, not as a the tool of a creator, but as the weapon of a destructive god, firing magical bullets that disassemble those same objects into a dozen pieces, spitting out coins to collect.
Traveller's Tales may have established the fundamental mechanics in the Star Wars universe, but it's in Harry Potter's world that the concepts really click into place. A Jedi wields the Force of creation in a palm and the force of destruction in a lightsaber. In Lego Harry Potter, it's all in the wand. As such, there is a harmony of idea and expression that envelops the game.
This isn't the only happy correlation between the ideology of Lego and the mythology of Potter that helps make this the strongest of the developer's games. Rowling's world is held together with a mixture of magic and logic, the two key ingredients to any video game in search of fathomable wonder.
Broomsticks and cars can fly, but people can merely levitate; Chimneys offer warp points, but if there are none around, you must take the stairs or catch a lift. Green spells cause cloying vines to retreat, opening up new pathways or releasing objects, while white spells scare away ghouls. Harry Potter has an unflinching game logic, all keys, locks and hard-and-fast rules that can be written in C++. As such, in the right hands, this written world is ripe for turning into a video game.
A less straightforward challenge is steering a story through three books' worth of plot, all of which take place within the shifting structure of Hogwarts School. As with the previous Lego Harry Potter game, the structure is surprisingly complex and forward-thinking. There are, in effect, two hub worlds to explore, each leading into the six discrete levels that comprise each book's story.
The first, Diagon Alley, is where new characters are purchased, cheats are unlocked, videos are re-watched and previous levels are accessed. The second nested hub world is Hogwarts itself, a mystically mechanical building filled with shifting secrets that changes dynamically as you progress through the game. You follow a ghoulish guide through its corridors towards the trigger point for the next level, uncovering its own secrets en route as you gain access to new spells and abilities over the course of the adventure.
Lego is at it again with LEGO Harry Potter Years 5-7 , charming the pants off the players with it's dialogue free, semi satirical versions of the movies. What really stands out this time is how good the game looks and feels. As a cinematic adventure the game stays pretty close to
Lego is at it again with LEGO Harry Potter Years 5-7, charming the pants off the players with it's dialogue free, semi satirical versions of the movies.
What really stands out this time is how good the game looks and feels. As a cinematic adventure the game stays pretty close to plot as far as I can tell, within the first 15 minutes you are flying broomsticks and fighting dementors like a boss.
If you liked other LEGO games this is a no-brainer, if you haven't had the time before this could be the game to try, Although I do wish this game had more lightsabers.
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Lego Harry Potter: Years 5-7 launches on 18th November, Warner Bros. has announced. It's coming for - deep breath - 3DS, DS, PC, PlayStation 3, PSP, Wii and Xbox 360. A PlayStation Vita version was also previously announced. For those who wand more after Harry Potter Years 1-4, Y
Lego Harry Potter: Years 5-7 launches on 18th November, Warner Bros. has announced.
It's coming for - deep breath - 3DS, DS, PC, PlayStation 3, PSP, Wii and Xbox 360.
A PlayStation Vita version was also previously announced.
For those who wand more after Harry Potter Years 1-4, Years 5-7 covers the last three books in the boy wizard series - snorefest Order of the Phoenix, dark Half-Blood Prince and final battle-fuelled Deathly Hallows.
Lego franchise veterans TT Games are once again at the helm as the plastic versions of Harry and Voldemort duel to the death.
Jen: So Sam, If you could have your dream HP video game, what would it be like? Sam: Harry Potter would not be in it at all! Jen: Hahahaha uh agreed. Sam: I want to be an Auror hunting down death eaters, potentially before Voldemort's fall from power. It's such a huge universe wi
Jen: So Sam, If you could have your dream HP video game, what would it be like?
Sam: Harry Potter would not be in it at all!
Jen: Hahahaha uh agreed.
Sam: I want to be an Auror hunting down death eaters, potentially before Voldemort's fall from power. It's such a huge universe with so much going on and so much to work with, but nobody has really looked away from things that Harry is directly involved in.
Jen: So like a prequel universe?
Sam: Sure, mostly because I don't think it would work to have somebody hunting death eaters or something similar during the actual HP timeline; they'd be stepping on Harry/ the Order of the Phoenix's toes.
Jen: Not to mention they'd be in direct contradiction of the people running the ministry, considering it's all corrupt and what-not. If there were a prequel game, I'd want to see the original Order, and the Marauders! James and Lupin and Sirius are so dynamic and they barely get any screen/page time!
Sam: Very true! Seeing those guys in their prime would be awesome. I'm surprised there hasn't been more wand action in HP games, since we live in the era of motion control gaming...
Jen: Yeah, we've seen lightsabers but so little wand action! I guess maybe the sensor's aren't precise enough for different wand motions? Can that be right? I mean, there's an app for the iPhone that you can practice spells with, but that's a touch screen. hmmm.
Sam: I feel like the sensors shouldn't have a problem, maybe it's more of an issue with how you aim your spells. Whipping the wand around then attempting to shoot a spell at a moving target could prove problematic for the camera.
Jen: WHATEVER WE LIVE IN THE FUTURE!! You know what? I want a game with a complete map of Hogwarts and everything is interactive.
Sam: WII U MARAUDERS MAP
Jen: YES! You can buy an "authentic" Marauder's map for like thirty bucks. As a very good friend once said, "Make that shit magic and then maybe. MAYBE" The Wii U...would make it magic.
Sam: Maybe the world needs a Harry Potter facebook game.
Jen: Oh that exists. It's boring. It's also not licensed, so it's like "magical school game" or something.
Sam: Ew.
Jen: Ew indeed. The only Harry Potter game I actually ever enjoyed was Sorcerer's Stone for the Gameboy Color.
Sam: That's actually as far as my experience with them got, at least as far as ownership is concerned.
Jen: I gave it to Prisoner of Azkaban (PS2) and that was okay but not great. I think the GBC game came out before the movies were being made. In fact I'm nearly sure of it because the box art was that funny digital Harry, not Daniel Radcliffe. Plus also, I was playing it in middle school, when the movies definely weren't out yet. Maybe that's the problem- the other games that DO exist are too concerned with reproducing the movie and not as concerned with bringing a fictional world to life...
Sam: That's a good point. Part of what makes Harry Potter what it is isn't just the main story. Just like Lord of the Rings it's a whole world and we run into tons of interesting characters and places we'd like to know better.
Jen: Which is probably why our video game wishlist is all outside of the direct canon. Have you played LEGO Harry Potter?
Sam: Sadly no, have you?
Jen: YES and it was AWESOME!
Sam: I'm a big fan of the LEGO Star Wars games so I'm not surprised. Those are extremely open ended aren't they?
Jen: Yep. I spent more time exploring the castle than I did in story mode. You can explore Diagon Alley, too, and then go into Gringotts and unlock mini-levels.
Sam: That's the way all Harry potter games should be!
Jen: Yeah!! Lots of exploring, and the magic makes everything sort of mutable so you get to go back as you acquire new spells and do stuff you couldn't do before. So. Perfect Harry Potter game: Wii?
Sam: I'd go beyond that and look ahead to the Wii U since it uses the wiimote and the new tablet controller.
Jen: Yeah, and if we're going with a prequel storyline it would REQUIRE Marauder's map action.
Sam: It could be cumbersome having all those controllers, but keeping their actions seperate so you can put down the wiimote when you're using the Wii U controller could keep things clean. Maybe even more realistic since maps and wands would take up so much room in your hands.
Jen: Yeah. I'm trying to think of a good title for this game, but everything I come up with sounds dirty. Voldemort's first rise is about as far as I've gotten. -_-
Sam: This sounds like a job for the harry potter wiki, maybe there's some kind of old motto or code for aurors or just a general anti-evil motto.
Jen: TO THE WIKI!
Author's Note: At this point, Sam and Jen failed to come up with a legitimate sounding name for this game that they have already spent too much time thinking about, and got distracted by other shiny articles on the Harry Potter Wiki.
Sam: I wonder if anyone would produce a Harry Potter game based in the height of Voldemort's power. It would be a big change—emphasis on the darker side of the series and an older target audience.
Jen: Who would you play as? (I call DEATH EATER!)
Sam: Oooooooooo, KOTOR style moral decisions!
Jen: Play as a young Lucius Malfoyyyyyy!
Sam: I pledge allegiance to the dark lord. Use unforgivable curses or stay pure. Imagine the controversial level where you slaughter hundreds of muggles.
Jen: WHY STOP AT HUNDREDS? Thousands, or gtfo.
Sam: I thought of how aiming would work! Boomblox style! Point, lock on, Wand motion!
Jen: Nice.
Sam: List 'o names: HARRY POTTER: WIZARD'S WAY
HARRY POTTER: WORRIED WANDS
HARRY POTTER: BE A DEATH EATER
Jen: Clearly Be a Death Eater is the most poetic. I still vote Voldemort's First Rise.
At this point, Voldemort appeared out of nowhere and recruited both Jen and Sam to join the ranks of his third rise. Their whereabouts are still unknown.
(Top photo credits | WiiU: Flickr via Dekuwa, Marauder's Map: Flickr via HarshLight)
Warner Bros. has announced expected Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4 follow-up Years 5-7. It launches sometime during 2011's fourth quarter - from October to December. The game covers the latter portion of the boy wizard saga - chunky yawn-fest Order of the Phoenix, tissues-at-the-re
Warner Bros. has announced expected Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4 follow-up Years 5-7. It launches sometime during 2011's fourth quarter - from October to December.
The game covers the latter portion of the boy wizard saga - chunky yawn-fest Order of the Phoenix, tissues-at-the-ready Dumbledore-killing Half-Blood Prince and the final battle-filled Deathly Hallows.
It's out for every console under the sun - Nintendo 3DS, DS, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii - and, interestingly, the Next Generation Portable. Sony is yet to set a firm release date for its new handheld, though this confirms what we knew already - it will be out sometime before the end of the year.
Either that or Warner has said too much and Sony's lawyers are preparing the Cruciatus curse at this very moment.
Lego Harry Potter: Years 5-7 is being developed by franchise veterans TT Games and features all the locations from final books and films, as the series builds to Harry's final confrontation with Voldemort.
Spoilers: Voldemort wins.
Not really.
and a very bricky New Year.
and a very bricky New Year.