| Lego Harry Potter: Years 5–7 | |
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| Director | Arthur Parsons |
| Series | Wizarding World |
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| Release | 11 November 2011 |
| Genre | Action-adventure |
| Modes | Single-player,multiplayer |
Lego Harry Potter: Years 5–7 is anaction-adventure game developed byTraveller's Tales and published byWarner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. The sequel toLego Harry Potter: Years 1–4 (2010), it was released on 11 November 2011 in North America and November 18 in Europe. The game is based on theLegoHarry Potter toy line and is based on the final three books and four films in theHarry Potter film series:Order of the Phoenix (2007),Half-Blood Prince (2009),Deathly Hallows - Part 1 (2010), andDeathly Hallows - Part 2 (2011).[1] The game was initially released forPlayStation 3,Xbox 360,PlayStation Portable,PlayStation Vita,Wii,Nintendo DS,Nintendo 3DS, andMicrosoft Windows.[2] The first of three trailers was released 6 October 2011, and the demo was released on 1 November.[3]
The OS X version of the game was released byFeral Interactive on 22 March 2012.[4] A mobile version of the game was released in May 2012 and September 2016 foriOS andAndroid, respectively. The game was released for thePlayStation 4 on 21 October 2016, as part of theLego Harry Potter Collection, which bundles the game with its predecessor,Lego Harry Potter: Years 1–4, and was also released for theNintendo Switch andXbox One on 30 October 2018.[5][6]
The game received generally positive reviews, especially for the humor added to the game's narrative.
Lego Harry Potter: Years 5–7's basic gameplay is similar to that ofthe previous game, covering a wide range of new characters, locations and items adapted from the last threebooks and fourfilms.[7] The online play feature that appeared inLego Harry Potter Years 1–4 is absent from the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of the game. Some additional quality of life changes were made, such as Wingardium Leviosa no longer needing the spell to be selected for building and moving certain objects.
Directly afterYears 1–4 was announced, it was speculated that aYears 5-7 would be released in the near future.[8] It was actually revealed to be planned for a holiday 2011 release on 19 May 2011 by an announcement byWarner Bros. andTT Games.[2] In the instruction booklet for variousLego Harry Potter 2011 sets, a page shows an ad for the game withHarry andVoldemort having a climactic duel (Harry castingExpelliarmus and Voldemort shoutingAvada Kedavra, a scene from thefinal book/movie). During an exclusive gameplay session with TT Games, it was announced that there would be an iOS version to be released on the iTunes App Store later that same year. The cover art for the game was released on 1 September 2011. A few days after, they released a trailer featuring Voldemort and Bellatrix. Those two, and a third, are available on the official site.[9]
The game was released on the Mac App Store on 22 March 2012. On 3 May 2012, an iOS port of the DS game was released.[10] This version was ported to Android on 28 September 2016.[11]
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| Metacritic | (X360) 77/100[12] (PS3) 76/100[13] (PC) 80/100[14] (Wii) 76/100[15] (DS) 69/100[16] (3DS) 71/100[17] (Vita) 64/100[18] (iOS) 71/100[19] |
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| Game Informer | 7.5/10[20] |
| GameSpot | 8/10[21] |
| GamesRadar+ |   [22] |
| GameTrailers | 8.2/10[23] |
| IGN | 8/10[24] |
| Official Xbox Magazine (US) | 7.5/10[25] |
| VideoGamer.com | 8/10[26] |
| The Guardian | [27] |
| The Escapist |  [28] |
The console versions of the game received generally positive reviews, while the handheld versions received mixed reviews. Review aggregator websiteMetacritic gave the game wildly different scores dependent on platform, with the PC version scoring the best at 80%, meaning "generally favorable reviews".[14] Metacritic also gave thePlayStation Vita version a score of 64%, meaning "mixed or average reviews".[18]
Justin Davis ofIGN gaveLego Harry Potter: Years 5–7 an 8 out of 10. He praised the humorous cutscenes, the use of the film's music tracks, the amount of gameplay available after the main adventure is cleared, and that the "game is simple enough for anyone to pick up and play."[24] Neil Davey from United Kingdom newspaperThe Guardian scored the game at 4 stars from 5, saying "there's weeks of fun in this package."[27]
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