Lego Harry Potter : Years 5-7 enchants the Mac

Feral Interactive has today announced that the action-adventure game LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7 will be launched on the Mac on Thursday, February 16th. LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7 for Mac is the follow up to the top-selling LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 and the latest line of LEGO titles to release on the Mac.

The game completes the saga of Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger with a spell-binding adventure taking them to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and beyond. Locations from the last four films, such as Grimmauld Place, Godric’s Hollow and the Ministry of Magic, are re-imagined through the incredible and ever-changing prism of LEGO. This time, players will experience the stories of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - including Harry’s last years at Hogwarts and his battle with Lord Voldemort in the ultimate fight between good and evil.

LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7 provides fans with a number of new spells to cast, puzzles to solve, locations to explore and villains to defeat using an all new dueling system. New gameplay features include Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes boxes, which give players invaluable and comical assistance; Spectrespecs, which allow players to see and build with otherwise invisible Spectrespecs LEGO; and Ron’s Deluminator, which helps uncover hidden secrets. Players can also discover and unlock 200 characters, including Fenrir Greyback, Bellatrix Lestrange and Professor Horace Slughorn.

The game features easy drop-in and drop-out cooperative gameplay with a dynamic split screen, players can play through 24 story events and attend 16 different lessons.

LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7 for the Mac will retail in North America for US $29.99, £19.99 (inc. VAT) in the UK and €24.99 (inc. VAT) throughout Europe. It’s available to pre-order now through Feral’s online store. When released, it will be available online for direct download from a variety of digital partner sites worldwide including the Mac App Store.

Minimum system requirements call for a 1.4GHz Intel Mac with at least 2GB RAM, 128MB or better graphics card, and Mac OS X 10.6.8 or later. The game does not support the following graphics cards: ATI X1xxx series, NVIDIA 7xxx series and Intel GMA series. These system requirements are provisional and subject to change before release.