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Summary: Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone Computer Game Review
Review: I like this computer game, but it has a lot of instruction and talking where there doesn't need to be. At the beginning it tells the whole story of Harry Potter to brief you before you play, but I think that if you have the game you have already read the books, so this is kind of boring. Also, the lips of the people don't move when they talk, which is kind of weird. But it has really cool graphics and it doesn't get boring in the middle like most games. There is always something new to do. Overall it is a pretty awesome game. That is why I give it 4 stars.
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Summary: Fun Game For HP Fans
Review: O.K. game. Graphics are good. One bad thing is the game only takes 5hrs. to beat. Voldermort is almost impossible to beat.
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Summary: A fun but very flawed game.
Review: Only Harry Potter fanatics should play this game. For everyone else it would just be a waste of money. Luckily, I am a huge Harry Potter fan, and I find this game enjoyable to play, although they could have made it better. Much better. The gameplay is simple and effective and the graphics are beautiful, but full of glitches. Most of the challenges in this game are exciting at first, but then grow very repetitive. But I like the way that the game is faithful to the book. And the characters look very much like the actors in the movie, and they're voices are very similar as well. I like that. If you're a fan of the books, get it. If you're not, stay away.
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Summary: Excellent Graphics
Review: Although I purchased the Harry Potter CD-ROM for my daughter my husband and I both enjoy it.
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Summary: Especialmente para fans
Review: Evidentemente quienes disfrutaremos más este juego somos los fans de Harry, los de todas las edades.
Los gráficos son buenos, pero creo que pudieron ser mejores! Bastante fácil de jugar, quizá lo más difícil es jugar al quidditch, pero todo lo demás es bastante sencillo.
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Summary: A little over rated
Review: For the most part I agree with the other reviews, though one of my irratations with the "challenges" such as, with the troll thing, why on earth are there giant creveses in the floor? And for some reason the have it positioned so that you are facing your charactor and you can't see where in God's name you're going and you fall through tiny 2 foot wide holes in the floor. And you stat out where it's fun and then after you faint or whatever a couple of times it starts to junt... you off!
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Summary: Great Game
Review: In this Harry Potter game you start off telling the story then you get to go to class learn cool spells ( like Wingardium Leviosa). You'll learn to fly on a broom stick. You can defeat the troll. You will even get to defeat Lord Voldemort (You know who you might say if you're a coward). After you defeat Lord Voldemort then maybe you won't be afraid to say his name. You will also get to do much much more.
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Summary: Great Game! Just 1 issue...
Review: I am an adult who loves the Harry Potter books and bought this to see how the story was manipulated into a game. I was extremely pleased and had a great time playing! This game is not just for kids. The game play is designed like a school where lessons are learned and expanded on until the big showdown with You-know-Who. The only part I found very frustrating was the save game feature. You cannot save at any point you wish; the game has set points where it can be saved (usually after a lesson is completed) This meant that I had to start many lessons over from the beginning if I made a wrong move somewhere. Plus you cannot revisit a prior point in the game. You must start the whole game over. This is a great buy for people who like non-violent, fun-based, action games. The story line follows the book, and the characters and lessons are very nicely developed. This is not for someone looking for games with high definition graphics and mind bending puzzles. I hope they come out with a sequel.
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Summary: A good debut game for the HP series, but lacks needed depth.
Review: This is an enjoyable game and to a degree fulfills the wish of Harry Potter fanatics to 'step into the Hogwarts world,' but as the lead review indicates, it has the feel of a hastily engineered product lacking in the depth and richness that a game based on the Harry Potter books could have. It's worthwhile for fans of Potter and gaming alike, but I have a laundry list of flaws that prevent this from being a truly excellent game: - It's far too simple and short in duration. In apparent disregard for the fact that people of all ages are fans of the Harry Potter book series, this game is aimed primarily at kids. That's a shame, because many of us take to heart the saying "It's never too late to have a happy childhood" (or another one,) and put it into practice on a daily basis 8^D. The game could easily be given a solid dose of increased complexity - in areas both of problem solving and of accessibility and navigation within the school and its surroundings - without alienating younger players who typically are far smarter than most people assume. There are too many doorways that close you off from previous rooms as soon as you pass through them; too many nooks and crannies without the surprises and new areas one would expect given the detail Rowling writes into her books. In short, the whole Hogwarts layout could be far more elaborate.
- The controls are at times awkward, particularly when flying on broomstick, and although the Options screen allows you to reassign specific moves to keys and mouse buttons, you have to stop and change them from one game segment to another - there's no flexibility in assigning them in advance to different segments of the game. For example, you may assign the right mouse button to "Jump" while roaming Hogwarts' halls, but "Jump" automatically becomes "Grab the Golden Snitch" in Quidditch and when catching the "Golden Key" later in the game. This maneuver means dividing the time of one hand between keyboard and mouse, which in turn means releasing the up/down/left/right controls on the keyboard - all while keeping your eyes on the screen. The obvious solution would be to program the up/down/left/right control to simple mouse movement, so that the left hand controls faster/slower on the keyboard, and all other maneuvering - and Snitch-grabbing - is done with the mouse. The controls assignment under Options doesn't allow this. - Another puzzling aspect of this game: The Wizard Cards, Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans and House points you collect as the game progresses, have little or no ultimate purpose. In the case of the Beans, the ever-entrepreneurial Weasley brothers do indeed pop up repeatedly to trade their Wizard Cards for Beans, but to what end? The Wizard Cards and House points have no function whatever, and the Weasleys' secret Bean project, which is revealed at the end of the game, is anticlimactic enough to make you wonder why you went to all the effort of collecting hundreds of them throughout the game. - The graphics are roughly equivalent to first-generation Tomb Raider, which is easy enough to overlook, but the shortcomings of the graphics and in-play animation are apparent, again, especially when pursuing the Golden Snitch in Quidditch. The Snitch is extremely difficult to see amid the coarsely detailed stars and "smoke ring" graphic elements that, ironically, are supposed to guide you to it. This, combined with the awkward flight controls, make the Quidditch play more frustrating than fun. The whole control mechanism for this game needs to be completely reworked in any sequels.
The graphic limitations in the backdrop scenes - that "edge of the world" effect when outdoors, and simple lack of detail thoroughout - are truly primative here, like greatly simplified versions of Tomb Raider scenes. I keep mentally comparing this to the graphic quality of "The Longest Journey". Perhaps it's not fair to compare a one-disc game to the scope and detail seen in the five-disc TLJ, but this is truly bargain-basement rendering, yet costs roughly the same as TLJ and other, more advanced games. Surely it could be improved upon? - Another disappointment is that interaction with other characters is not really interaction, but rather two or three canned sentences that appear and repeat in cycles when you bump into a given character. Given the "cast of thousands" in Rowling's books, it's difficult to avoid imagining how good this game could have been if the programmers had given it the richness of interactivity (not to mention of graphics,) found in "The Longest Journey." TLJ's format of having a list of optional questions the protagonist can ask, and a multitude of possible responses offering clues to game advancement, would be perfect for the character-filled world of Potter. Overall it's a mixed bag - almost like a demo for the actual game. It's interesting enough for fans of the books & movie, but severely lacking in terms of what some truly thorough, professional design could have made it. Hopefully the game's producers will dedicate some serious time to any subsequent Harry Potter games - Rowling's world is perfectly suited to a great PC gaming experience, but this debut falls far short.
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Summary: Pure and simply fantastic
Review: I got this game for my kids and I cannot believe that 1 week later I am still playing it! I am addicted to it. It has fantastic graphics if you are using a good graphics card and Direct X 8. It is so smooth and accurate as to be almost unbelievable. But the best part is that it has SO many worlds whithin it that you are always surprised, startled, and blown away by it's pure fun and excitement. I haven't had this much fun since I was a kid and it does just that.... makes me a kid again. Your kids will fall in love with this game. And watch out, because you will too if you're a kid at heart. Enjoy
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