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AWESOME GAME!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: May 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I really REALLY enjoyed this game. The graphics were so imaginative and cool. And it was actually a challenge unlike some other games. (It is good for any age definitly!) I also love how you can explore everywhere! The Hogwarts Castle, the Grounds, Secret gardens, everywhere! I wish it never ended! But my point is that this game is definitly one of my favorites, it is sooooooo exiting. I love it!

Great Game! Totally worth the money!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: June 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Okay i read some of the reviews and find them rather unfair.

True, the game has its ups and downs but the game is really fun and will make you want to go on to the next stage and the next and thus making you glue to your computer for hours! This game is great in a way, the graphic is good and the game is very entertaining, you can expect different things in every round and is no way repeative. What i love about this game is that it has so much for you to explore and when you play it for the second time and the third, you will find things that you didn't on the first go.

It covers everything and contains parts that are missing from the film such as the potion making section. You can attend classes,discover secrets and live harry potter's life. You can also have a go at the Quidditch game and see that it is not as easy as you expected.

However, the game is lake of something it would make the game better if the creator is to include the part where harry potter shops for his school items. As for me that is one of the highlights. I also think that they should let you pick your own character as not all of us has harry as our favorite character. The worst thing is that whenever you turn or move your mouse it will show you the area you're in from a different direction it is fun at first but after a while it will cost your head to spin.

I loved the game and no its not too difficult and you do not have to use auto-jump if you actually know what you're doing. Its a must for all harry potter fans and if you know nothing about harry potter don't worry buy it and learn the story from the game.

Great Game! totally worth the money!

great and worth while

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game was defintely worth buying. The second I started playing it I was addicted. Every level is adventurous and by far the best part of the game is Quiddich. The way every thing works is great and original. This is one of my favorite games. (trust me I have a ton).

Even Grandma Can Do It!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: January 29, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I first played this game with the guidance of my 4 year old grandson and I decided that I wanted one for my computer. I have enjoyed many evenings playing. The graphics need some work, but all in all I think this game is excellent. It is too advanced for young children, they can start to play it, but it is harder for them to advance. This didn't seem to bother my grandson, he was just happy to be a part of Harry Potter.

You play it once and you finish it once.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: May 30, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Harry Potter is a great book series, I love it, but this video game version of Harry Potter is just not as intense and creative as the book series. The gameplay is second person view, similar to the book, and you are Harry Potter going through Hogwarts or whatever places to have adventure. It is extremely boring after a while when you realize each level is no difference, except the enemies and display of environment. The graphics is not as wonderful as expected, sometimes you can find glitches of mistakes around the corner (horrible rendering).
When I played this game I imagined myself in Hogwarts, but that was not how I felt. I felt more like in a prison or dungeon, with limits of exploring the castle and the atomsphere is not magical enough to convince me this is Hogwarts (where are those animated paintings and beautiful floating candles?)

If you are age above 12, don't even bother to buy this game. Just rent it once and play it. I promise you that you can finish it in three days. It only took me a week to finish the game, and playing a little bit each day, and there is not much of animated sequence for you to watch.

The only thing that was a bit fun is the Quidditch match, but it is also too easy. Nothing surprising or challenging.

They could have made the game better.

Challenging and Addicting

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is addicting! It is the only computer game I've ever seen, so it took me quite a while to figure out what to do, but now it is fun (It is very hard in the speedy areas like chasing Malfoy on broomstick and throwing crackers.) I enjoyed taking my time exploring every direction and talking to each character many times. The 3-D graphics are simply amazing and the characters are just like the movie.

If you're stuck on one part and can't get passed it, type harrydebugmodeon and click on Level Select. You can then choose any part of the game to play, even parts you've already done. This takes the frustration out of it for us non-gamers.Whatever your age, if you're a Harry Potter fan, you'll find this game fascinating!

Totally addictive, I have to play after the kids are in bed!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 30, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Well, friends, I purposely did not buy a joystick for my computer-- nor a Ninendo, Gameboy or Playstation or any other brainsucking technology to keep my kids from their love of reading. But uh-oh, here comes a great Harry Potter game, dropped on our unsuspecting family by a benevolent granny, and whamo! -- we have been glued to the computer ever since.

First, and most important, is the game's loyalty to the books, all four of which we have read together. I am happy to report that the storyline of the game (so far) has been refreshingly true to the book. The characters are beautifully depicted and have nice British accents that my kids love to mimic.

How difficult is it? Well, for my family, who are complete videogame neophytes, it's pretty darn hard. We've taken turns trying to learn how to fly on a broomstick, and while I as an adult had an early advantage in this effort, my eight year-old son has, with repeated practice, surpassed me. We've died dozens of deaths trying to jump from one moving platform to another, in facing a nasty "cracker" throwing Malfoy and in chasing the same rememberall-swiping villain during a hair-raising broomstick chase. There are numerous snapping plants, vicious turtles and secret passageways. On the bright side there are Bertie Bott's beans, chocolate frogs, wizard cards, and stars to collect.

Since we are not avid computer game people (our other favorite is Chessmaster 8000) we can't compare this to a broad range of other games, but I can tell you that the two kids and I have spent a disturbingly large proportion of their school break playing this game and rooting for each other as we alternate taking shots at passing the various challenges. It has been way too absorbing, and I almost wish we never got started, because we have a long way to go before we complete the game and face the ultimate enemy, He Who May Not be Named!

Truly, this is tremendous entertainment value for your money. We are not even halfway into the game and have spent many exciting hours (I hate to think how many) walking in Harry's shoes.

Good luck on your adventures at Hogwarts, and in parting, I advise you strongly to use the "auto jump" feature on the options menu, or you may be plunging to your death for many days!

More fun than a dungbomb in Snapes' office

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is a surprisingly fun game, one that Potter fans of any age can enjoy. While the game can be challenging at certain points, it provides the kind of challenge that young children and those like myself (whose love for gaming is exceeded only by their general ineptitude at successfully solving and finishing them) can figure out on their own. In a couple of cases, a degree of logic must be employed that the youngest of players might not catch on to very quickly, but every thing in this game is solvable and, even better, provides a certain sense of accomplishment when you figure out how to get by a tricky obstacle. The graphics aren't spectacularly impressive for the most part, but the look and feel of the game works well in this environment and does capture a sense of the Hogwarts essence. Sure, it would be nice if the pictures on the walls of Hogwarts moved, but there are better things to do with computer memory than this.

Naturally, you assume the role of Harry Potter. Having arrived at Hogwarts, you must attend classes and learn different types of spells that will become essential over the course of the game; each class leads quickly to a course designed to test your use of the spell you have just learned. You must make things flip over or open, open magically locked doors, subdue dangerous plants, etc. Along the way, you meet up with all of your Hogwarts favorites - Dumbledore (who for some odd reason first appears wearing a set of garish glasses apparently obtained from the 1970s Elton John vintage collection), Ron, Hermione, Quirrel, Sprout, Hagrid, Snape, Filch and Mrs. Norris, etc. Fred and George are there to help you get your bearings and to provide you with the beginnings of your wizard card collection.

While the game is quite solvable, I completed several challenges only after many, many attempts. The encounters with Draco Malfoy, trying to get back Neville's Remembrall and battling it out with wizard crackers, are tough at first. I thought I would never get past the scene with the troll (partly because, for this one challenge only, your point of reference is the opposite of what you have grown accustomed to). The final battle with You-know-who is also pretty tough to complete, but nothing required more time, trial, and error than trying to catch the Golden Snitch during two Quidditch matches and snaring the flying key during the approach to the final encounter. The Quidditch matches are quite something to behold and can be quite fun, but one failed attempt after another at catching the Snitch can prove increasingly frustrating.

One drawback to this game comes from the fact that you basically know what is going to happen at the end; after all, the game follows the script of the book rather closely in a general sense. I would also like to have seen more scenes animated; certain events at the beginning and end, such as the big events in the Grand Hall, are narrated in storyboard fashion. My final small gripe concerns the cut scenes; often, when you perish and restart a challenge, you are forced to sit through the animated cut scene each and every time; when you require many attempts to complete a challenge, as I did, having to sit through these cut scenes time in and time out proves increasingly annoying. All in all, though, my criticisms detract very little from a wonderfully enjoyable game presented in the true spirit of Harry Potter and his Hogwarts environment. Even when you complete the game, there will most likely be a number of secrets left for you to discover in a brand new game.

Harry Potter-The Best!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: February 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game has been lots of fun for our family. Our kids are 8, 6 and 4 years old. We play it so much we have to limit the time or else we would play it all day!! Some time our dad gets up at night and plays it. He was so happy when he finally got past Professor Quirrel! Me and my dad got past Lord Voldemort (He who must not be named) playing together! We enjoyed Fred and George's surprize for Prof. Snape! We are going to buy Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets next! We played it so much that we sometimes copy what the people on the game say. For example, my son is a perfect little Gnome!

Brings shame to the name of Harry Potter!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: March 13, 2002
Author: Amazon User

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!

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