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I bought this game from GameTraders at Castle Towers. The Price was excellent, $69.95 when EB Games cost $79.95.

Quite an average game, a nice big place to venture through and explore, but it seriously lacks story content. This Harry Potter game brings back the flying minigame and introduces the first ever potions mini-game.

Potions is probably the most worthwile part of the game, as flying is quite boring, flying continuously in a path through rings, with no variation. The story is terrible, made up of mostly cinematics, with all major plot points being unplayable.

Another big part of the Harry Potter franchise which has returned is duelling. You get to use many of the spells you read about in the books or have seen in the movies…IT IS FUN! You have the opportunity to become champion dueller of Hogwarts, and it truly is the funnest part of the game. Some parts are quite pathetic though, such as killing an opponent with a stunning spell or being continually bombarded by a glitch so that you are killed.

Quite a reasonable game, but with more content, I would feel better about how I spent my Money. Something that I can’t get over is the untapped potential. They made a large area to play in, but an ill-defined storyboard destroyed the game’s greatness. Everything was in a smaller area than it should have been, meaning a player only had to go into the far-off corners of the map to get Xbox 360 Achievements.

The story was short; I finished the game in less than a day, which is quite sad when you have played all it’s predecessors. I would not recommend this game, unless you were borrowing it from a friend.

by Victor   

Ranger’s Apprentice is a series of books written by John Flanagan. It is a great series consisting of seven books. Whilst the eighth book is still being written, the ninth is currently being planned. The books are set in a mythical land called Araluen.

The series follows the adventures of the protagonist Will. Will was rejected from training as a warrior-knight because he was too small. Will always dreamed of becoming a Warrior Knight because his father was one of the best. Will lives in a castle called Redmont in the center of Araluen.

After rejection, Will then gets chosen to become a Ranger’s Apprentice, which not many people know about because they are a mysterious group who act as the King’s eyes and ears throughout the kingdom Araluen and beyond its shores.

 Will is soon trained to be an expert archer and knife thrower, as well as learning the skills of silent, unseen movement, tracking and concealment. The story continues throughout the series of A Ranger’s Apprentice where Will is trained with new tricks and becomes a real Ranger one day.

It is a great and an exciting series to read and I guarantee after you read the first book you would want to continue the series.

The nine books are titled;

1.      The Ruins of Gorlan

2.      The Burning Bridge

3.      The Icebound Land

4.      Oakleaf Bearers (called The Battle for Skandia in the US)

5.      Sorcerer in the North

6.      The Siege of Macindaw

7.      Erak’s Ransom

8.      Kings of Clonmel

9.      Halt’s Peril

Kings of Clomnel and Halt’s Peril are still being written and so the titles could change at any moment

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Volume 1 The Ruins of Gorlan. Which cover do you like best? Move your mouse over each cover to see the country where it is published.