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Great fun for new or casual gamers and HP fans

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: December 31, 2001
Author: Amazon User

My computer games consist mostly of 5 minute arcade-style games. I'm not a HP fan (just saw the movie), but this PC version game had me wowwed from the opening sequence. The music was great, the graphics incredible, and game play fun while not being impossible or mindlessly violent (no exploding guts thank you).

Quidditch, by far, is the hardest skill to master. I found reassigning the speed keys to things closer to the arrow keys made it easier to control. When getting this for Christmas, I played with it for hours over the next days. I finally defeated the evil Lord Voldemort after a night of play and was treated to a mini-movie. Lots of fun. There were also plenty of beautiful graphic mini-movies like the trip to the North Tower to send the baby dragon to Romania.

My only wish is to see more of Gryffindor House and the Main Hall. A map of Hogwart's would be nice. As would a freedom to wander about the castle once you win the game.

But since playing this game (which had me wanting to read the next books in the series), I can see plenty of potential for more HP games.

(To those needing help with the flying broomstick stuff, just try to keep the desired object within view. When your catch bar fills, the screen will flash telling to to press Jump - your Control Key or right mouse button. The biggest challenges are Malfoy, Quidditch and catching the flying key on your last challenge. You'll need to speed up on the last three flying challenges. Let go of the speed key to slow down some.)

Good for young ones, but missed out

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: January 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

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.

Exceptionally Well Done

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: July 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I play a lot of computer games - serious ones - and picked this up for my 7 year old with low expectations. However, I was incredibly impressed. The graphics are great. The voices are fantastic. The gameplay is enjoyable and varied enough. I had to help my son through some of the trickier flying sequences (but the team effort was worth it). Plus the game was certainly long enough - especially considering the price.

Very faithful to the 1st book. We're eagerly hoping for future games based on the other books.

Very good game, but easy to beat

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: December 16, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The Harry Potter computer game is very fun, and addictive! The graphics are really, really amazing and it's fun being able to go up and talk with different characters. Quidditch is pretty fun, but it takes quite a lot of practice, so be warned! The one thing I hated the most was only being able to save at certain areas, and if you died you had to re trace your steps a long way. When I always had to play to the next save area, so make sure you have more than 15 min at a time to play. The other thing that was dissapointing about the game, was that it was to short! I beat the game in less than a week. Overall, this PC game is very very entertaing, and you won't want to stop playing!

Overall a pleasing game (as far as one can go)

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: December 22, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game offers excellent graphics and the action itself is
quite pleasing especially to those of us who have enjoyed
the books.
However there are some severe shortcomings. The game doesn't
let the player roam at will in the castle and chose his own
strategy of progress. Rather the action is linear with no going
back. One even cannot go back to previously saved positions as
those are wiped out with every new saved position.
This type of gsme strategy has its most severe consequences in
some of the fast action arcade sequences. No range of difficulties are provided and those of us who lack the manual
dexterity required by the game are stuck with a half-finished game.

Great Fun!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: January 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game for my 13 year old son and play it myself! The graphics are lovely, making Hogwarts School seem to really come alive! The questing is fun and doesn't get boring before it changes to something new. My one complaint after finishing the game is having to sit through introductions each time you start a saved game. But overall, my son and I have been thoroughly enjoying playing Harry Potter.

Pure and simply fantastic

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: February 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I got this game for my kids and I cannot believe that 1 week later I am still playing it! I am addicted to it. It has fantastic graphics if you are using a good graphics card and Direct X 8. It is so smooth and accurate as to be almost unbelievable. But the best part is that it has SO many worlds whithin it that you are always surprised, startled, and blown away by it's pure fun and excitement. I haven't had this much fun since I was a kid and it does just that.... makes me a kid again. Your kids will fall in love with this game. And watch out, because you will too if you're a kid at heart. Enjoy

Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone Computer Game Review

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: March 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I like this computer game, but it has a lot of instruction and talking where there doesn't need to be. At the beginning it tells the whole story of Harry Potter to brief you before you play, but I think that if you have the game you have already read the books, so this is kind of boring. Also, the lips of the people don't move when they talk, which is kind of weird. But it has really cool graphics and it doesn't get boring in the middle like most games. There is always something new to do. Overall it is a pretty awesome game. That is why I give it 4 stars.

Pleasant diversion

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: March 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

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).

Harry Potter Rules!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: November 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is one of the coolest ever!!! We love it! My mom even played it too!

We've beaten it about 20 million times and have gotten the "super Secret" Wizard Card about 10 million times!

A definite five star *****!

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