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Summary: Disappointing, to say the least
Review: I agree whole-heartedly with the review titled "disappointing eye candy". I have experienced every problem he mentioned and then some. The biggest disappointment overall to me is the fact that it is rated for children age 6 and over. My 6 year old has spent half of the time he's had with the game watching me get through the hard spots of the game for him (and I usually have to make multiple attempts myself.) We have finally given up the game at the point where we have to chase Malfoy on the broomstick and knock him off - it has proven to be an impossible task. My 10 and 8 year olds have not had any better luck than I have. The least Electronic Arts could do is publish a strategy guide to take away some of the frustration. A visually stunning but functionally useless game, in my opinion.
Rating: 
Summary: It's pretty good......
Review: It's a pretty cool game. The graphics are nice, and it's fairly realistic. The only thing is that it can be sort of hard to move some times, though. Options aren't easy to control, either. But overall, it's a pretty good game. I recommend it for around 8 and up.
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Summary: Only For Die-Hard Fans (or Kids)
Review: I like Harry Potter just as much as the next big HP-lifestyle-fan. So when my sister came home from the market one day and said "I got the Harry Potter game!" I was mega-excited. I've read all four books and seen the movie. I loved the books, and I thought the movie was pretty good. Obviously, then, the game was simply the next logical step. So I installed it (all 435MB's of it) on my computer, kept the CD in, and started the game...The first thing that strikes you is the look of the game. The main menu is very well done up, but lacks much content. However, that doesn't really matter to me in a game, so I simply configured the options I wanted (a standard practice for every new game) and started a new game. The graphics are pretty appalling in this day and age of graphics-cards with CPU's and multi-gigahertz monstrous CPU's chomping the numbers. Most of the characters' faces and clothing look very 2D. Also, quite a few of the graphics do not match much with the movie or pre-game illustrations. The voice acting is, at best, tolerable, and at worst, appalling. Again, most of the voices do not match with the movie. The voice actors are not very good, unfortunately. And now, on to the interface. The interface for learning spells is quite good, IMHO. The only problem is that if you have an even slightly below-average sensitivity mouse, you will lose a lot of points because of that. The system for casting spells is quite good, except that you have to aim it very carefully. The items could have been much more numerous. And I don't really see the point of the beans, except to give to Fred and George. The game manual says, "Collect the beans to trade with other students". Well, sorry, but "other students" only means Fred and George. Save points are a very old and annoying addition to gameplay. It simply means that you can only save your game at particular locations during the game, that too in only one file. Now, the gameplay. Some of the puzzles start extremely easy, then suddenly get impossible. There is too much jumping involved. Also, some of the puzzles are very stupid in concept. The flying lessons are fun (my top score is 15/20) and it's almost worth buying the game for the part where you have to knock Malfoy off his broom. Oh yeah, two miscellaneous problems with the game:
1 -- Harry himself never talks in the game.
2 -- Hermione and Ron do not help much. Finally, one last complaint is that the storyline has been given too many little twists here and there. To sum it all up, if this did not bear the "Harry Potter" name, I would give it 3.5 on 5. However, since it *does* bear the name "Harry Potter", I give 1.5 on 5. Don't buy this unless you're a die-hard Harry Potter fan.
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Summary: Good for young ones, but missed out
Review: I know, i know this game is designed for a younger audience than most games and as such needs to be somewhat easier, but i think they missed the boat a little. This game was excellent, graphically, story, game play, but it could have been better. it's not even something that i can put my finger totally on, but it was a little short, a little easy. i felt it was over too quickly. Once you play it there is no repeatability. However there are couple of nice things. broomstick practice and quidditch. once you've completed that part of the game you can access them both from the main menu and do them to your heart's content.
problems i had though and i'm sure others did too. the inability to skip through the cut scenes is annoying especially if they come right before a part where you keep dying, forcing you to sit through the cut scene every time. also quidditch would be better if it were more involved. I'm not sure how this could be accomplished but perhaps giving the player to play any position on the field would be a nice touch.
overall a great game expecially for younger players or parents who don't play too many games. also a good game for girls. i find there aren't enough good games out there for girls.
Rating: 
Summary: Hate It
Review: My daughter got this game for Xmas and hates it. She is 7 years old and cannot understand it so she never plays it. My husband has also tried to play it in order to help her understand and he can't play it either. We thought she would really like the game since she loved the movie and the books, but she doesn't.
Rating: 
Summary: This Game Rocks
Review: This is a great game. It goes a little slow, but that's only because I don't have any RAM (40 mb). If you like a good challenge, get this game. It's just the right difficulty level for me, but hey, I'm 13 and a half. I don't recommend it for anyone younger than that; it would get confusing.
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Summary: Kid's game...I wouldn't buy it
Review: If you're a gamer, don't buy it, you won't like it. It doesn't have the widespread appeal of the books and is suitable only for children. It's too easy. ....
Rating:
Summary: Horrible!
Review: This game is the absolute worst thing that EA has ever made. You only get to learn five spells throughout the entire game! I've only played it for four hours, and I've almost beaten it! ...
Rating:
Summary: Fantastic FUN!
Review: I really wanted to write a review on this game because it is so much fun! I'm a 42 year old mom and my son got this game for Christmas. I'm not much of one for him to sit around playing computer games (we don't even have a Playstation - shocking!), but this game is challenging and just a whole lot of fun. I'd never really tried to play any of his computer games before, but I must admit, when he's away, I have snuck on the computer and checked this one out. Such a good incentive to read the books, too, which he loves. I read a negative review on here that said that this game was TOO challenging; it is indeed challenging, but there is so much fun packed into it, so much room to explore and be creative and use your imagination, the challenge never becomes frustrating. Just had to say it; fantastic fun!
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Summary: Wonderful!!
Review: well I bought this game for my daughter.who is a complete harry potter freak.when the game was delivered we couldn't get her off the computer. all of her friends were coming over to learn spells,play quiddich and battle the evil,when my daughter finally left the computer to go to school i triend it out and even i a full adult who hasn';t even read the books fell in love with it when i sat down i suddenly became Harry Poter living in a magical world I myself could not leave the computer.It was such a wonderful game it inspired me to read the harry potter books and c trhe movie.Soon the same thing happeden to my husband and now we r the harry Potter family
-Harry Potter Lover!!
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