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Summary: Here comes the Chamber of Secrets!
Review: My brother and I have been waiting for this for the last 6 months, wondering if it would come out or not. It looks 10 times better than the Sorcerer's Stone and is more packed with new exciting places! Definetely check this one off on your wish list!
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Summary: Oh Boy, oh boy!
Review: This one is going to be three times bigger and 10 times more fun than the first one. I can't wait! }:-)
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Summary: awesome
Review: i'm not a huge fan of video games and i even find some to be quite boring. But this one was awesome. it is very easy to understand, but yet some of the challenges are hard. It is much better then the first because you can explore more of hogwarts and you can go back to some of the levels to try to beat your high score. You also can do the cutscene button and skip through what the ppl r saying. If u liked the first one, this one is a lot better
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Summary: GREAT GAME
Review: The graphics are good, game is fun, and the characters clothes move when they run. Its a bit difficult with all the challenges but still awesome game anyway. I would definetly reccomend it to someone who is browsing reviews wondering whether or not to get this $9.99 game. Well let me tell you it will be te best ten bucks you ever spent on a computer game. It totally blew me away. Great price great fun! GO BUY IT NOW!
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Summary: Harry Potter and the Gamer looking for Secrets
Review: "Congratulations! You've completed the challenge! You're almost as good as I was at your age." Oh? That was a challenge? I'll give you my honest opinion to start. I didn't think that this game was a huge improvement from the first. Some things were too easy, others were just a waste of time hard! Of course there were some welcome changes, like the ability to skip cutscenes or that the characters' mouths actually move when they speak, but I think I had more fun playing the first game. Maybe it's just that I expected a lot more. Don't get me wrong - - I love Harry Potter and this game was still worth the money. The spell learning was a waste of good arrow keys. I liked tracing it better. There were too many wizard cards everywhere, and so when you can't find a few, you feel like the whole game was a waste. Also, the quidditch was inferior to the first game. It keeps you on a defined track, and you can't adjust your speed. It's like a battle between you and the other seeker, instead of a hunt for the golden snitch. The character development is rather minimal, except for Gilderoy Lockhart. And I love the British accents! But you don't get to know Ginny or even meet Ron's parents or learn to hate Malfoy. Wizard dueling is a definite improvement. Once you finally master expelliamus, it's an exciting competition each time. You can duel real students from each house for an increasing amount of beans each time. That is, until you get up to 200, and then it's a battle of the expelliamus. How long can you bounce a spell back and forth? The challenges are improved, except that there are too many secrets. Wizard cards everywhere, and beans galore. The "enemies" are the same thing over and over again. If there's a space with a firecrab symbol on it, you know what to do. The gnomes are easy and obvious, and the Wiggentree things are plain annoying. But you can go and replay each challenge and try to beat your high score, an addition which I liked. I played it on PC, but I've heard about what you can do on XBox and PS2. If you are blessed (or spoiled) enough to have one of those systems, don't buy the PC edition. It skips the degnoming the garden and the scenes that serve as the introduction are boring, but necessary. THE BEST THING IS THAT YOU CAN SKIP THE CUTSCENES! Overall, it's a good game, and probably for children ages 6-14, but it may be too easy or too hard for some, depending on age. Parents should get a kick out of it too, but don't go searching for every secret or you'll kick yourself literally out of frustration.
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Summary: A great game for all ages!
Review: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is a great game. You get to ride on a broom and learn magic spells. You also collect wizard cards and solve puzzles. It's hours of delightful fun.
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Summary: EA Games took the lessons learned from STONE to heart
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. My review is of the US version for PCs.
The narrator for help prompts and cutscenes is Jim Dale, who also narrates the U.S. unabridged recordings of the books, as well as the extra features on the U.S. DVD of HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE. (I gather that Stephen Fry, Dale's counterpart for the UK editions, narrates the UK version.) All dialogue in the game is accompanied by subtitles, which were apparently written for the UK version and not revised for the US version, although this is rarely apparent.
The animation has the same look and feel as EA Games' HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE, with upgrades. The character animation has been improved, so that the characters appear to breathe and blink, and their mouths move as they speak. Combat with creatures such as Peeves is *much* less dependent on Nintendo-like skills, and learning spells isn't so dependent on one's drawing ability (both of which are a relief from *my* point of view).
Continuity between sections of the game has greatly improved over STONE. The player can enter some areas before having the ability to use the spells that will provide access to all the items there. For example, a sharp-eyed player who explores the grounds immediately around the castle upon arrival will find at least three areas that he/she cannot reach before learning more spells: Spongify is necessary to use the Spongify pads (marked with spring symbols), and Diffindo is needed to cut through vines and spiderwebs. (Harry used Diffindo on Cedric's bookbag in GOBLET OF FIRE.)
A bean trading system has been introduced to allow purchases of items of interest, from brooms to wizard cards. The wizard trading cards now act as access keys to some new areas. The game tracks House points, and periodically awards the House in the lead with an opportunity to collect free beans (motivating the player to get a decent score on the various teachers' test areas, which can be replayed to try to beat one's best time or collect any items missed on an earlier pass).
Still has the savebook saving system, so if the player messes up, it can be a long haul from the last save point.
After a toy 'rescue Ron from the Whomping Willow' mission, the game mainly consists of two kinds of events:
(1) go to the next lesson, learn a new spell, and play through that professor's challenge (essentially an obstacle course that requires mastery of the new spell to complete, and which contains some number of secrets);
(2) one-shot quests that cannot be replayed but are essential to the main plot (such as getting the ingredients to make Polyjuice Potion and sneaking into the Slytherin dormitories).
Each challenge/quest contains various hidden wizard cards. The player must collect 40 silver cards in the game to enter the special gold wizard challenge area at the end of the game.
Bugs: after facing the final challenge, the player is given a chance to wander the grounds and tie up any loose ends before the House Cup award ceremony that ends the game. If you attempt to replay any of the teachers' challenges at that point, the game *will* crash, although if you replay them at any time *before* entering the Forbidden Forest, you shouldn't have problems. Consequently, make sure you collect all Wizard Trading Cards from the Challenge areas *before* the endgame. (The card-buying system provides a margin for error if one can't find all the cards in the one-shot quests, but only if you've been diligent about acquiring beans to pay for them.)
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Summary: Fairly good...a bit tiring after a while
Review: I bought this and The Philosopher's Stone, and let me tell you that this is better than that. I enjoyed playing this quite a bit, but I found that it was good for a one-time use only, a bit like toilet paper.
However I can assure you that in that one time you play it, you'll be greeted by numerous quests for potions, spells and other such knick-knacks. Good for a time-pass! I recommend it to anyone who likes Harry Potter and role-playing games.
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Summary: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Review: this game is quite good. it has a ton of secret areas about one in every f3 rooms or hallways such as you could walk by a mirror and use allohomora (unlocking spell on it and it would open up to reveal beans or a wizard card. you dont see very much of ginny weasley at all in the game, pretty much only in the chamber of secrets. moaning myrtles hallway is quite an impressive sight with the bloody wall looming out of nowhere from off the stairs. i also hated the fact that there was one section of stair that acted like an escalator and took you to the top of the room....like it would kill them to finish the stairs.the wiggenweld potion is very usefull, and i like how every 10 wizard cards you get you get another health bar. hermione looks terrible. they didnt texture her bangs at all overall 4 stars because it is too easy
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Summary: awesome
Review: I got this game last year, but I was only recently able to play it on my new computer, because my old computer was so bad it wouldn't even play the sims *Sigh*. For those of you who have played the first game, this game should be much easier. Where in the first game, to learn a spell you had to drag the wand over the shape, now you hit arrow keys when the wand passes over them, thus making it much easier for people with slower computers. For those of you who have not played the first game, it is still pretty simple, but you have to learn all the controlls that previous gamers already know. The plot follows the movie pretty well, and included a few things from the book the movie failed to mention. There shouldn't be any worries over whether it is suitable for your kids, for there isn't any blood, or really any hands-on fighting. The closest it come to violent is when you stun a cornish pixie with Rictusempra, they fall to the ground and disappear in a poof of blue stars. The graphics still aren't the greatest, but they are an improvement over the first game. A good idea is to always look right, left, and behind you when you're in a new room. They like to put monsters where you can't see them ;). Also it is a good idea to try to attack monster from the farthest distance possible, because if they wake up again, you're in trouble. I hope that helped you all!
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