Harry Potter Game Gets PS2 EyeToy Bonus

Posted by simoniker on Friday March 12, 2004 @04:47AM from the waving-hands-wildly dept.

Thanks to EuroGamer for its article discussing the fact that EA's PlayStation 2 version of Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban will be the first PS2 third-party game to take advantage of the EyeToy USB camera add-on. Among the EyeToy bonus mini-games created specifically for the PS2 version of the multi-format title: "'Chocolate Frogs' will see players clapping their hands together to catch a Chocolate Frog and no doubt send the resultant goo splashing everywhere... [and] 'Seeker Practice' will involve trying to grab the Golden Snitch whilst avoiding the Bludger." The article notes: "Although EA isn't planning an actual wand peripheral, an equally Potter-mad representative suggested we could always use our own makeshift example if we really wanted", and apart from EyeToy, the game, which IGN PS2 has a recent hands-on preview of, "will also accept voice input to help repel Peeves and perform other tasks."

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Re:HP may not be the FIRST one... by StingRay02 · 2004-03-12 06:41 · Score: 3, Insightful

Your face isn't scanned by the EyeToy. You have to take a picture of yourself with a digital camera and then e-mail that to Activision. They make a map for the game, and then you download it using the network adapter. THUG released before the EyeToy.