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Summary: EASY GAME!
Review: This game is REALLY EASY!
The pros are: good puzzles, funny stuff, tense moments.
The cons are: quidditch can be improved, requires better graphics, almost anything can hurt you, some important parts were removed and IT'S JUST TO EASY!
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Summary: Great fun!!!!
Review: This is such a fun game! It has very realistic graphics and lots of challenges. I love looking for secret areas and learning spells. The quiddich games are awesome!
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Summary: Love it, but some things are annoying
Review: I am a big fan of Harry Potter, but some things are annoying like passing Malfoy, or even saving at a time when you want to, and some time I had to start over. The graphics are actually cool and you cannot die. The cards you get are unique
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Summary: Great for Jr. HP fans!
Review: My child loved the music, spell casting, and best of all...quiddich! Before buying, you should know that this isn't much more than a run, jump, cast a spell, get a bean kind of game. Some levels are a tiny bit difficult, as you need to jump Harry around to get what he is questing for. As a big Kings Quest type game fan, this is a little disappointing. But, it gives kids something "Harry" to do while waiting for the next book!
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Summary: Hard without a joystick
Review: Bought this for my granddaughter and I to play together. Neither of us have perfect motor control but we aren't slackers either. The broomstick stuff is really difficult unless you have a joystick. And, until you get through the broomstick stuff, you can't go on to the problem solving. I need to rent an adolescent who games a lot to get through this part.
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Summary: Mediocre disappointment
Review: I love Harry Potter. The books, at least. What's more, I love computer games. However, my compassion ends there. These two loves do not mix here.Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone (which still vexes me; it's an alchemist's stone, burn you!) is one of the more mediocre games it has been my misfortune to come across. The reasons are as legion as the bowling ball sized beans that lie strewn across the hall. The first complaint is the sheer ridiculousness of the school. Hogwarts, the programmers imagine, is not a pleasant place, full of massive holes in the floor, where death awaits those who wanted to go to class, and teachers will send you off to risk life and limb after teaching you one seemingly useless and completely random spell. How is Lumos supposed to protect me against the Dark Arts, Professor Quirril? This is hardly the only flaw in the game. Another is the almost complete disregard for any sort of plot. In the introduction, presented in stills stolen from a Harry Potter Day calendar I'd been given, you are told that as Harry put on the sorting hat, he hoped he would not be put into Slytherin instead of Griffindor. Why? No explanation is given for what the houses represent. Worse still, Harry seems to have turned into Lenny from Memento: Ron actually comes up to him and says something along the lines of: "I'm Ron Weasley, remember me?" Other characters are similarly introduced, although Harry should by now know who they are; at times, it comes across as if they really are assuming you to be a compete fool, telling you peoples names over and over. Except when the characters themselves are incompetent: although Harry makes no decisions or discoveries, he is the one that actually does everything. What plot remains would leave anyone who hadn't read the books, or at least seen the film, lost; those that know how the plot should resolve itself just chuckle as Voldemorte hoarsely coughs "Die, Potter" in the unsatisfying yet difficult final level. The only redeeming thing about the whole ordeal is a good John Cleese impersonator. At least, I pray to God he wasn't actually the voice in this game. He's worth more then that. The real problem with the game, though, is not that it's bad, but that people will want it regardless. It's Harry Potter, after all. Had it been a good game, then people might buy other games, and the industry as a whole gains. Instead, the game is mediocre, and the people who could have gotten hooked, don't. Don't bother buying it, gamer or fan. Either way, it's a waste.
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Summary: not what I expected.
Review: I brought the game for my sons 9th birthday. He loves it but as a fan of the harry potter books and movies, I was very very disappointed. It is an arcade and as such alters the story to suit the game. They use the name, the characters and the setting to sell the game but could not keep true to the story.
The game starts at the school, and the brief run through of the story before then has a heap of inaccuracies. I would have preferred a game that started at the beginning and not in the middle. Missing is his time at the dursleys, diagon alley and the train to school. Hermoine and Ron play such a big part in the books and movies but in the game are almost ignored. Harry runs around alone, in the book Ron and/or Hermoine are usually with him but not in the game, not even in crucial scenes where they are present in the book. Otherwise flying the broom is well done and lots of fun. The magic is well done and fits in very well. The characters and voices are also well done. Overall I would love to see the game done in an adventure style, remaining true to the book and starting at the beginning, with lots of puzzles that you have to use your brain to figure out rather than the easy ones this game contains, you basically move the magic round to find all the hidden areas etc, there is little challenge there.
For someone like me who expects the game to match the books and movie, leave it in the store as you will get annoyed every time they alter the story to suit the game.
If you want an arcade game loosely based on the books, that is fairly easy for the younger children then this is ideal as it has a learning level and auto jump that makes it much easier for the younger kids.
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Summary: What a great game!
Review: So, did you see the Harry Potter movie,and you probably think the game isn't going to be not even close to the movie? Well,you're wrong. The Harry Potter game is a great adventure game,has a great plot,and has brilliant graphics. What you do in the game is walk around as Harry,duel evil foes,go to classes, learn spells, and play Quiditch. This is a great game and I deffinetly recommend this game to gamers who really want to have a great time and a challenge.
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Summary: Harry Potter game is not as good as it should be
Review: It seems to me that Electronic Arts tried way way too hard to get this game out before Christmas 2001, and the game itself shows it. The 3D graphics, as said before, are very primitive, and in many cases are extremely poor done - objects come in and out of walls, if you walk too far around some objects, they disappear, etc. The game also comes with no instruction guide, so you have to figure out some very weird key combinations for yourself. Overall, I'd have to say that Harry Potter failed as a good game, and I think I'll stick with the old but well-put together graphics of Doom.
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Summary: Awsome Graphics, and Awesome Fun
Review: This game is the best. I got it for Christmas 2001 and have been playing it ever since. I am always finding new Wizard cards, Bertie Botts and secret passages. The only problem is that Voldemort needs to be harder, because I can beat him without getting hit( and I am not very good). For good graphic and adventure seekers, I reccomend this game
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