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'Potter' game gesture-based spells revealed

Published Friday, May 4 2007, 11:03 BST | By David Gibbon
'Potter' game gesture-based spells revealed
Electronic Arts executive producer Harry Elliott has revealed to GameSpot that the forthcoming Harry Potter game will feature a new gesture-based spellcasting system on the PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii.

Elliott said, "Instead of pressing buttons to fire off specific spells, we use each console's unique controls. If you want to use 'depulso' to push an object away from you, you press the right analog stick forward on the 360 and PS2, you push the Sixaxis controller away from you on the PS3, and, of course, you flick your 'wand' away from you on the Wii".

Gamers will also be able to ignite objects using motion gestures, sliding the Sixaxix PS3 controller or the Wii Remote from side-to-side as though lighting a match.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix will be released June 29.
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