Harry Potter Reviews

This was not a bad game. But beleive me-your using your money on an okay game when you could be playing something interesting like Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons/Ages. You'll spend hours hopelessly wandering dungeons,Hogwarts,and a million other places. The story of the game strays from J.K. Rowling's actual story: like in Gringott's Harry rides in a cart, he doesn't walk around. I bought this game in hopes I'd have the fun I had reading Harry Potter. Boy was I disappointed!
It really takes a ton of perserverence, fighting all the impossible battles with powerful creatures that are constantly a step stronger than you. So if you've bought all the better games in the world (quite a few, in my opinion), you're so strong a Harry Potter fan you'd (...) someone who dislikes it, or you're a complete fool and/or (...),buy this game.

Well this was a very good game. The graphics compared to the other versions are okay but it's a gameboy color! I've played better games but I am not disappointed. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone follows the story line as close as possible with quest after quest after quest! The only thing is did they have to go through a dungeon before they went into the entrance hall? Plus I don't remeber fighting rats and bats and suits of armor. I got it yesterday and I've been playing for about three hours. Non of it is too hard however I understand I'm not that far in the game yet. (...) I reccomend this for beginners and veterans alike plus harry potter fans.
Go see the movie! It's really GREAT!!!

I think this game is the best game since Super Mario Kart on the Super Nintendo! I don't actually have the game yet,but I've played it once and it is really fun! You start the game in Privet Drive then move on to Diagon Alley where you buy all your wizarding needs. Ofcourse you first must navigate through the Gringotts maze to get you money. Once you have all your supplies,to the Hogwarts Express! After the Hogwarts Express you get to Hogwarts finaly. The castle is huge! You collect and trade wizard cards to improve Harry's strength.This game is really fun and will definately be a huge hit among gamers so it would be smart to reserve it,or you'll find yourself with an empty shelf.Thanks and see you at Hogwarts!

Got this game with christmas money. I'd read a few reviews and thought this would be a good game to get for my GBC. I was wrong. I've beat it about 10 times now and it's gotten old pretty fast. So if you want to play this game, rent it, DO NOT BUY IT. But I would recommend any Zelda games.

This is the best game I have ever played. If you like Pokemon Ruby or Saphire you will love this. You gain attacks and get levels to help you. The ice attack is the best. I would reccomend this for 8-12 year olds.

I had no thought of getting another game. I went straight to it in the store. I thought that the game would be a lot easier. But I spent hours trying to figure the first part out. When I finally figured the game out,I couldn't take my eyes off it. It's a great game!!!!

I've been reading reviews for this game, and I had thought I had a guarenteed great game in my hand after i bought it. I guess I thought wrong. I am about 14 years old and have read the potter books and like them alot. THis game is very disapointing. SOme of you might be familiar with the scoring system in quidditch: 10 pts. for each time the quaffle (main playing ball) goes through one of the goal-like hoops, and 150 pts. for when the seeker catches that darn golden snitch. Now, I say they either change the rules of quidditch, or make a sequal to the game. I dont think they can go back and change all those books. To me, all this game is is flying around tossing the quaffle back and forth, until the time comes to try and catch the snitch before the other team does. The game works it out so that when there are enough steals, special moves and passes during a game, it automatically goes right to the catching of the snitch. I feel the quaffle part of this game is completly pointless because the way the game makes it, whoever catches the snitch wins. It almost never get to you scoring 150 points with the quaffle before the hunt for the snitch is on, so why even have the quaffle play in it. Basically, this game just comes down to the 1 minute hunt for the snitch at the end.

If you are a collector of harry potter memorabilia, Go ahead and get the game. Other than that, spend your money on a good game like Metroid Zero Mission or Super dodge ball advance

i think that this is by far the best of the potter games, altho i haven't tried out the new prisoner of azkaban game. i do have to say that i love the books, and i am a very causual gamer. I play this game loads, and i really do enjoy it. in contradiction with one of the reviews i just read, i find it terribly easy to score over 150 pts in a game before the snitch chase, and the world cup games get harder as you go on. overall i think it's brilliant.

I've only played this once but it is sooooooooo cool!The graphics are alot batter then the old ones.I am sooooooooo geting this.If your a Harry Potter fan I think you should too.

I loved this game, as well as all my friends loved this game! In fact, everyone I know who ever played this game has love it! Even my one friend, who hasn't read a single Harry Potter book, loved it, as well as my brother, who thinks Harry Potter is the third anti-christ loved it! I would recommened that anyone should buy it, whether you have read or liked the books or not.

The day JK Rowling invented Quidditch for the books, this game was begging to be created. I'm absolutly getting it. I was ready to give up video games when I found out they were making a Quidditch game. This is the game I've been waiting for. Yes, I'm a Harry Potter nut, so the opportunity to play Quidditch was one I could not pass up. And unlike the other Harry Potter games, this one takes you beyond Hogwarts and into the Wizard world with it's favorite sport. I knew it was time to invest in a good system for the game, so I'm finally getting a PS2. I mean how can anyone, especially a Harry Potter fan, pass up the opportunity to play this awesome sport?

Playing this game is a real treat! There is nothing better than playing the Magical Pastime of quiditch. It is really amazing because it's like you're in the magical world. This game is one of the most fun things I've ever done, but what's really great is how you can actually go to the World Cup.

Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup is also unique because it is the first Harry Potter game with a Multiplayer option. This is one of the funnest parts about this game. You can battle a freind and crush him. Imagine you playign the Multiplayer Madden 2004, NBA LIVE, and NHL Hockey all rolled into one, in the Air...Pretty Cool,huh?

This game is unlike any sports games ever made, and that's why it will never be topped. Any sports fan, no matter if you like Harry potter or not, will love this game, it's just like a mix of basketball, football and hockey on a broomstick.

Overview:

Fun-13/10, the multiplayer really gives it an excellent edge.

Gameplay- 11/10 Nice gameplay, and cool to do awesome moves.

Graphics- 10/10 just like watching the Harry Potter Movies

Difficulty-11/10 Starts of Boring when you're playing the Hogwarts teams, but get's progressively harder.

Overall- 45/40, AMAZING game.

Amazing game, amazingly fun..Buy this great game, there is no sports game comparable to this game...it is very fun, not to metion difficult. BUY THIS GAME!!!

ok so basically when I bought this game I couldnt wait to play it. it was really addicting but then all of the sudden I was at the basilisk. all in all, its super fun but its too short. (the quidditch is my favorite part) I ended up beating it in 2 days. I was just disappointed. the voices in this game dont even resemble the real voices of the characters. ok so there's only 6 days and on each day you do 1 class except for like 1 day you do 2 classes. Iwould not recommend this game to people who like slightly challenging games. its cute for little kids but i give it one thumb up.

I'm happy to admit that I'm a fan of the Harry Potter franchise. I adored the first two books and the first two films and with the release of "The Chamber Of Secrets" in movie theaters last November (and now on video) came this game. It's a Zelda-esque adventure title that's good enough, but could have been better.

Before I get negative, I'll mention the high points of this gaming experience. First, the graphics are very nice. Harry's environments are detailed, the character models look authentic, and the spells Harry performs treat your eyes. Second, the game controls well. It pretty much plays like the 3D Zelda titles from the N64 and Gamecube; you assign spells and items to various buttons and use them, jump automatically when you reach a ledge, have an "action" button that lets you talk to people or grab things and all that other stuff. Movement using the analog stick is very fluid, as well; Harry will move in whatever direction you command without any trouble. Also, the game has many enjoyable mini-games, like Gnome-Throwing and Quidditch. In addition, when you obtain Harry's broom, you can fly all over the Hogwarts campus, something that I really enjoyed doing.

Now for the problems with this game. The first problem is that the load times are long and frequent. I thought when we left the 32-bit era, long load times would be a thing of the past. Unfortunately not, although this isn't the only game on the Xbox to suffer from this problem. Second, are the sound effects, voice, and music. To be fair, the audio in Chamber Of Secrets is good, so why am I complaining? EA didn't recruit any of the actors from the film to do voices in the game, and they didn't even get the John Williams score from the movie. The impersonators are good and the music is nice but I don't understand why they didn't go for authenticity on the audio front. This is very bewildering knowing that EA is one of largest and most profitable gaming companies around. Also knowing that EA got the original actors and score for "Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers" (PS2, Gamecube, Xbox) also from them, I'm wondering what was their excuse was with Mr. Potter. In my mind, there's no excuse for the omission.

Next, the camera has some problems. At certain times in the game, you have to sneak around without being detected, like in "Metal Gear Solid 2." During these times, you have to put your back to the wall. The camera zooms in too close to Harry, not allowing you to see the various guards you need to get through the area. Furthermore, the game doesn't have a first person looking feature that so many other 3D adventure titles have, so it's difficult to see where the guards are. Be prepared to be caught and have many house points taken before you successfully pass.

An additional problem has to do with the game's money currency. You have to collect Every Flavor Beans to buy things from Fred and George Weasley's shop, but whenever you're hit by an enemy like a flying book, you loose the beans you are holding (oh, by the way, I don't remember flying books attacking Hogwarts students in the books or movies). It's just like losing all your rings when you get hit in a Sonic The Hedgehog game, and in this case, that's not a good thing. Just like Sonic, you only have a limited time to pick up the beans you lost, although here, it's even shorter. So if you can't get them in time, you're out by a couple beans. This made me really mad, particularly when I had enough to buy a useful item only to lose them on the way back to Gryffindor Tower, not to mention how far I had to travel and/or how hard it was to find these things in the first place. My last problem, though, is that the game gives no indication of what to do in some sections, and thus, quickly translates into frustration.

Overall, Harry is a decent game, but various problems drag the experience down a little. It's not a bad game, and it's better than most of the licensed junk out there. At least rent this game, though; you may like it a little more than I did.

This was a great game overall, but it could have been better. The graphics were pretty good to. I thought the game was to short and to easy. But if your a true Harry Potter fan like me you will play it over and over like I have. The worst thing about the game was the quidditch, it was fun and everything but I thought it would be alot different. I mean if your a half-decent flyer then it will be really easy for you.

Pros:
-good graphics
-fun game
-you can play flying and gnome mini-games
-at the end of the day you can roam the Hogwarts halls as you wish
-lots of things to accomplish

Cons:
-way to short
-kinda easy
-bad quidditch impression
-you cant save it when your in the middle of something, you have to go to a certain spot and save it

[So good so tasty buy it its good i have it, candy is great].

I purchased this gift for Christmas for my 9 year old. He ripped open the package so he can make "gummi" candies. Little did we know that the "gummi" candy was tangerine jello. We added the "petrified potion mix" (the crunchy coating) That we Found out was white chocolate. The sour apple "venom" tasted like expired limes. The result tasted horrible. Go over a friends house and if they have this toy, try it before you buy it.

I just love Harry Potter, so I was excited to try this game. Well, I feel it has both pluses and minuses. The minuses: It takes forever to load,and does this every few minutes through the game. I also found it really difficult to figure out how to get through some of the challenges at first, and lastly, Harry's movement is not always easy to control (jumping and climbing). (Sorry, I just got done playing "Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy" by Naughty Dog and I am comparing it to that, which may not be fair :) )
The ghosts are also really annoying, as are the prefects you have to sneak past all the time (Hey, Harry owns an Invisibility Cloak, remember?!?! What happened to that?)
On the plus side, it is very pretty and detailed, and the voices are good. The addition of short scenes here and there will help those who are unfamiliar with the storyline (although it got a bit boring since I've read the book four times!). Flying is really fun, as is just exploring Hogwarts on your own, and the spells are neat too.
It would've been a better game if E.A. had taken a leaf out of Naughty Dog's book and made Harry easier to control (I guess that gets tricky with all those spells and items he can carry) and given him his Invisibility Cloak!!! Lousy prefects! All in all, this game is quite worth a try, but you may need to check out one of the online walkthroughs for some hints if you get stuck.

This game is great! Explore and buy things in Diagon Alley or save Ron at the Whomping Willow! I was NOT impressed with the first game however. I loved to buy Stink Pellets and The Standerd Book of Spells (Grade 2). Find Ginny's stuff that she lost while at Diagon Alley. It was hard to seek past the owner of The Magical Mengirine. Battle creepy monsters and magical plants at the Whomping Willow. Watch out for whomping branches as you complete this level! At the beginning of the game, you land at the Burrow. You have to help Ron, Fred and George Weasley de-gnome their garden. Knockout the gnome then spin it all around and THROW! Try to beat Fred's score, 128! If you toss it and it does not go far you will be lowered to 3. After de-gnoming their shed, you have to duel their washing machine! "Dad tried to charm it, but now its everything BUT charming!" Fred said. Pretty soon you're not going to duel some puny little washing machine! You will be dueling real people! Of course, you get to explore and play in Hogwarts after completing early levels. You have your very own Rememberball! You can check it for new tasks or look at a map of Hogwarts, the Whomping Willow and Diagon Alley. At the second level, you land in Borgin & Burkes! You have to hide from Malfoy's dad then sneak past the creepy hand guarding the Lumos book! Retreive and get yourself out of there!!! In some places such as Borgin & Burkes, the floor is brittle and if stepped on BREAK and you'll have to find your way back up on the floor you were on (HINT DOWN BELOW!)! This is a Harry Potter Fan dream! It's worth all the money!!!

NOTE: This may give part of the game away!!!

Brittle Floors: When you think your on a brittle floor, cast Lumos. This will make the brittle spots of the floor glow. This is not a cheat code. In fact, thats how you get past them. Also, before you climb a ladder look up on the ceiling. The brittle floor will be gray while the strong floor is yellowish.

NOTICE: Nothing will glow if nothing is brittle.

HP & CoS has impressed me in every single aspect. Storyline, tasks, bonus, adventure everything! Though they need to fix the graphics a bit here and there. *grins*

It is quite a challenging game to play, and involve using your head in all aspect. It isn't easy to win but it's fun trying trying to beat again and again. So, it ends up being one of the addictive games out there.

This is so far one of the best game products from Harry Potter's product's line.

My boyfriend and I played the first Harry Potter video game for the PC and really disliked it. It was obviously made for children, extremely simple, and the graphics were not very good (despite the fact it used the Unreal engine). I was a bit skeptical of Quidditch World Cup, but bought it anyways.

And am I glad I did. The game is not overly simplified, but does take you through training very slowly so even beginning gamers can get the hang of it. I have a problem where 3D first-person or third-person games generally make me nauseous after playing a little while. This game provides a good perspective that doesn't have this effect, which is great.

The graphics are pretty good, but could be a little better. Given that this is for the Xbox, some use of pixel shaders or bump mapping would've been nice. Also, the victory moves after making a goal aren't very plentiful and you'll quickly tire of seeing them.

In my opionion, Harry Potter Quidditch World Cup is a great game, and a great buy. You can play all 7 positions on the team. I never get tired of this game; there are many teams from the Hogwarts 4 houses to Bulgaria, England, the U.S, France and many more. Level difficulty is decided upon by which broomstick selected. You can also try to accomplish certain goals set, which unlock cool moves and special quidditch fields, etc., by getting the quidditch card. The graphics are great, as is the gameplay. I would suggest it for all ages, even smaller children or older folk. It's easy to learn and the difficulty is selected by you. I recently completed the game with Spain on the easiest setting. Now, I'm playing through with France on the next difficulty, which is quite a step up. It takes a long while to complete the game with one team; you must play each country twice or so, if I remember correctly, equaling about 32 games, take or add. Each country also has its own quidditch field, which actually is quite realistic to the real life countries feautured in the game. I do not believe this is a game you should rent before buying. I also don't believe this is a game non Harry Potter games should stay away from. Even if you don't like HP, I think you will love this game.

As a fan of the books, I was determined to try to keep an unbiased view of the game before I played it, and I was pleasantly surprised at how unnecessary that was.

I was worried how the gameplay would work; it seemed impossible to program a fair computer Seeker, and since the difference between Chasers and Beaters were so big (Beaters don't even touch the ball) I was baffled as to how they'd keep a game with such separate elements cohesive and fair.

The game revolves primarily around the chasers, with the gameplay having the feel of a 3 on 3 hockey game. With features like "combos" you can even do what would be the equivalent of a slapshot. The shooting and passing are pretty intuitive.

What's very interesting is that you're rewarded for the complexity of your gameplay. "Combos" (kind of a long chain of assists), normal goals, and other touches you add to your style of play affect the "snitch" bar, which is how much boost your seeker gets. The way it works is, once two halves of the snitch bar meet, the game goes into "seeker" mode, which is a race between the two seekers to get the snitch. This race is affected by aforementioned boost, and some kind of snitch "slipstream" which makes you go faster. So, just like in "real" Quidditch, a deficit of 140 points can change with the catch of the snitch, but because of the way the game is designed, it's harder to catch the snitch if the other team has scored better or has more goals than you to begin with.

I was disappointed that you can't play as Ireland, which is one of the major teams in the book. Why this is, I have no idea. You can play as the one of the four houses at Hogwarts to win the house cup, and then win tickets to "attend" the World Cup, where you choose a World Cup team and play as them. The World cup mode is pretty exhausting, however, as it's 18 games long. What is also pretty cool is that your points are cumulative, so if you completely demolish one team (I beat Australia 400 to 0) it affects your rankings, and conversely, if you only lose by a little (say, 160 to 130), you don't go down in ranking as badly if you had been completely shut out.

There are some hangups with the game: the celebratory cut scenes and seeker catches have the same animations for each team, so after awhile you'll get tired of them. So far, I haven't found a way to change players, which is silly, but this oddly doesn't matter as much in the long run, as it changes them automatically based on ball proximity.

The graphics are great, the stadiums incredible, and you'll find yourself wishing you could watch a couple rounds of Quidditch on ESPN.

Also, I'd like to note that on this Amazon page, a lot of people gave favorable reviews then gave no stars. If you're interested in buying it I'd recommend it, but if the fact that it has a low ranking is bothering you, go through the reviews and see for yourself that the ranking should be higher.

When I drove home with the game, I searched the instructions at the beginning, noticing exciting changes like the increase in the size of Hogwarts. Now that I think about it? Big whoop.

To be frank, I cannot see for the life of me why, if you have a better gaming platform, you get a better game. I played my friend's version for Playstation 2 and there is SO much more to do. Hogwarts seems to be based off the movie version, as it is huge and has things you would actually see. In the PSX version, you are in corridors that do not follow Hogwarts standard (maze-like) The worst part, in my opinion, is the Gryffindor Common Room. One would just love to have a look around, right? Hah. In this game you have very little to do.

I guess I'm more or less a stickler for roleplaying, and was hoping the game had a more realistic tone to it. Repeating what An Amazon.com Customer said, 'Prof. Lockhart looks like someone hit him with a can opener. Dobby looks like a rat. Colin Creevey is tiny, and Ginny Weasley looks like a pig.' It's all too true. I would love to have moving staircases, secret passages only avaliable with certain spells and more prefects roaming the hallways at dark...it adds a sense of adventure to the entire thing. Oh, by the way, even though Harry FINALLY TALKS, his mouth never moves (or if it does, the inside of his mouth is the same color as his face)

If you have the Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets DVD and watched the preview of the video game on the extras disk, THIS IS NOT IT; that's the Playstation 2 (or "better") game you're seeing. This one is a pale imitation. You mostly run around Hogwarts, shoot little balls of light out of your wand, and face sequential challenges, all of which seem to revolve around precision-jumping from one platform to another.

It's not a BAD game; it has it's moments. But it shows that even the irrepressible Harry Potter can't escape the Curse of the Movie-Spinoff Video Game.

All in all, I loved the game HP and the CoS. It was fun and not so difficult that you get frustrated enough to throw the controller at the screen, while at the same time not so easy that you felt you were playing something for five-year-olds. However, it was pretty short. I finished the game in one day, in about twelve hours. I've seen a lot shorter games, but I think they could have added more and made it longer. It only took me that long to get one hundred percent completion, including accessing the Founder's Tower--the contents of which, I must say, were rather pointless and disappointing--with no help from the internet or friends. I feel it necessary to add that I am no expert--I'm no more than mediocre.

My favorite parts:

Fighting Aragog
Looking for Wizard Cards
Fighting the Basilisk (which, in contrast to Quirrel of SS, was overly easy)
Dueling

My advice to the makers:

Make the next game a little longer, a tad bit more challenging, but not overly so, and make the Duelling a side game for two players so that you can challenge one another. That would be wicked!

ok... i though that this was hard at first but... all of a sudden all you know is that you are at the very end! like it's cool...
but the grafics are ok.. and the music is normal...
all in all i give this item a 4 star cause it's ends really fast!
but i would advise it!

As one could guess, i love Harry Potter. I've read the books many times over and seen the movie more than i care to admit, so i loved the game. but it isnt for everyone.
1. Music and Effects- got a bit annoying after awhile, and some of the sounds-Malfoy's laugh, Gnomes biting you-will cause you to mute your gameboy. Harry's British accent when he says the spells is nice tho.
2. Graphics- standard 2D, but the backrounds look like photographs which are nice, and the graphics are better than Gameboy Colour's version Harry's running is fluid, for the most part.
3. Playability- fun, but can be very frustrating some of the puzzles will lead you to shut off your gameboy in frustration, which isnt good because of the limited save points. but once you master the puzzles, the game can be quite fun and engaging.
4. Controls- these were actually quite nice- easy to figure out and straight-forward.
5. Replay value-once you've mastered the puzzles, casting spells and re-doing them can be entertaining, and for a Potter fan the sheer joy of exploring Hogwarts is great.
This game will definitley appeal to Harry fans, and perhaps to some puzzle fans, but I'd recommend renting it if you aren't sure. I adored the game, but if I didn't like Harry Potter so much i dont know if I'd be quite so enthusiastic

Im not a huge harry potter fan, but this game should be an interesting one to watch. It should sell out very quickly to kids, so reserve yours today.

The game is based on the hit book series by JK rowling. In the GBA game, you must survive the first year at Hogwarts. This game is made Electronic Arts game. You play the Role of Harry potter exploring Hogwarts in his first year as a student wizard. You must enter classes with Neville Longbottom, Hermione Granger, and Ron Weasly and master 29 skills that are used in the book. You must also overcome challenges that come each term, such as looking for Hagrid's lost pets or finding the sorcerers stone itself.

It should be a hit among kids and will sell out very quickly. EA sure knows how to make a lot of money. There is also a GBC counterpart to this GBA game, which should also sell well.