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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

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Rating: 3 stars
Summary: O.K.
Review: The Game is Much to Short!!!!!!

I beat the game in a day!!!!

Don't think it is bad or anything. you can cast spells catch snithches and save the wizarding world from Lord (You Know Who's) Evil riegn.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: I Don't Get IT!!!!!!!!!
Review: I like the game, I just don't get how you are supposed to get past Fluffy. I tried playing the flute, but once I was done with one of them,I went to the other one, and the first one was awake again. It's challenging.I like all the deitails. That's why I gave it four stars.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Good graphics but very repetitive
Review: Harry Potter made a good adaptation from the book to the movie and from the book to the game. The main problem with this game is that it it very repetive and you just do the same things over and over again. The best part of this game is flying on broomsticks but even that gets boring after awhile, you just chase a ball all around, there is no looking for it. The other team never wins a Quidditch match and the match always takes forever. Also this game is very easy to win and is aimed at a young audience. Overall this game is fun for the first day, then it's over.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: It's Soooooooooooooo Hard!!!!!!!!
Review: I think this game is really hard. I tried getting past malfoy soooooo many times. Finelly my uncle had to do it for me. Now I'm trying the troll. I tried it twenty one times!!! I still can't do it. My uncle can't do it either. It's not mch fun if you can't do it. Next time don't make it so hard!!!!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: It's a great game, but perhaps it's too complex.....
Review: I recived the Harry Potter computer game from "Santa" and of course I was eager to try it out. The first few parts were fun enough, but then things got quite complicated. During the game there were quite a few levels or puzzles that I would find very complex (example: Quidditch, Fluffy, racing Malfoy...) and would gripe and complain about them untill they were beaten, and that ussaly took about a week. However, once the level was beaten I was always eager to find out what happened next!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Pleasant diversion
Review: System on which this was tried out: Pentium III 733 MHz, nVidia TNT 2 Pro, 128 MB RAM, Win98, with a monitor with 1024 x 768 resolution.

If you don't have at least a smattering of background knowledge about Harry Potter, you may not get much out of this review, but in that case, why would you be here? The Recommendations system here on amazon.com had been recommending this game to me for weeks, and I was put off by the box artwork. Once I actually looked at a copy of the game with screenshots, however, I gave it a chance, as a loyal reader of the series.

You play the game as Harry. The graphics in the game show you an 'isometric 3D' viewpoint, like Diablo or Darkstone, following Harry around, but not quite like either one. (You can occasionally see Harry's face, incidentally; he turns his head and looks around if left standing for any length of time.) The graphics are 3D polygonal models, as in Darkstone, so that you have freedom of movement; you can look up and around, as well as moving where you like. The characters' appearance matches that of the corresponding actors in the film, at least for the adults (the texture mapping is good enough for you to recognize Richard Harris as Dumbledore, for instance); a tradeoff is that, of course, the characters' facial expressions don't change in most cases. The voice acting is OK. Due to the freedom of movement and freedom to look around, control is split between the mouse and keyboard: the mouse controls which direction you're looking in, while the arrow keys move you around. Other keys control spellcasting, jumping, and so forth. (You can configure this in the Options menu to your personal taste, though.)

The installer is well-behaved; you may specify not only the drive & directory where the game lives, but the group in which the icons are placed.

The game opens with the Weasley twins calling you aside into a secret corridor for a basic tutorial just before Harry's first Defense Against the Dark Arts (DDA) lesson. Peeves will try to interfere with your progress, but even that teaches you useful moves. You can collect Bertie Botts' Every Flavour Beans; later, if you find the right portraits in the castle, you can trade them for cool items, e.g. a Nimbus 2000. (The twins will take the beans from the tutorial, but will give you a wizard trading card in exchange).

Some nice attention to detail: the moving suits of armour; Filch, sweeping the corridor outside your first lesson and blocking the way to the forbidden corridor. The castle interior is lovely, with vivid colors (for carpets, coats-of-arms, and so on; the stonework of the castle looks like stone, of course).

The only real annoyance for me is that you can't save except when you find specific save points (Nearly Headless Nick shows you how to use the first one). (It auto-saves at section breaks, though.) This may frustrate you at times. For example, you can save just before 'The Flipendo Challenge' following your first DDA lesson, where you practice your first spell while solving a jumping puzzle. If you miss one of the jumps and fall into the abyss, you can't save partway through the puzzle; it'll reload automatically from the last save point. You learn a few spells and get a chance to play Quidditch, once you learn to fly (Harry's a natural, but I'm not; be prepared to practice flying for a bit until you catch on).

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Brings shame to the name of Harry Potter!
Review: Being an avid Harry Potter fan, I bought the game when I first saw it. Now, you would guess an HP game would be amazing, but guess again: it [is horrible]! All the characters are very badly portrayed and the voices are horrible. Sheesh, if I hadn't seen it myself, I'd never have believed Harry Potter could [be] suck so bad. Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans are very pointless to collect; all you do is give them to Fred and George who seem to own you! Ron and Hermione are hardly there and them being Harry's best friends, they should definitely be there. All-in-all, I'm very disappointed and I returned the game after a couple of days. Don't buy it unless you want to waste your money!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Harry Who?
Review: Oh no! Not another Harry Potter product. How BORING. My kids all have genius IQs and they wouldn't have it on a stick.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: game review
Review: I love this game! it's got great graphics and it's really fun. The only problem is that (at least on my comeputer) the walls sometimes look like there are tons of colors instead of just the reg. grey of the wall. But i think that anyone who likes Harry Potter should get this :)

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Half good half bad and too easy
Review: I played it and it was to easy, because my friend beat it in 3 days. The only good part of it is the qudditch torument. For true gamers don't get it!


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