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EA Games took the lessons learned from STONE to heart

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: November 07, 2004
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. 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.)

great

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 14
Date: November 29, 2002
Author: Amazon User

For fans of Harry Potter this game is a must. faithful to the book and thes tory completelly! The Quidditch and othr mini games are great. My ONLY fault is the game not being longer.

The New Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: January 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I thought it was a very great game. It has much better aninations then the last game. It also got right into the problem when he heard the voise. Now I haven't gotten to the end but I'm sure will great.

A great game for all ages!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: February 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Harry Potter and the Chamber Of secrets is a very fun and interesting video game. You start out having to save Ron from the Whomping Willow. On the Whomping Willow there will be a sign that means you may cast Flipendo on it and save Ron. When you arrive at Hogwarts, you're first day you will have a lesson with Proffesor Lockhart on the Third Level. You will have to hit an arrow key on the keyboard as a wand makes its way around it. This is called Rictusempra. It stuns many unusual creatures. It is useful in this game, though. You will then go to the Rictusempra Challenge. When you arrive in a room that has three boxes where you can cast Flipendo on it, look at the doors. On each floor level there will be a picture of Proffesor Lockhart. Cast Flipendo on the blocks until you have the three bottom level doors unlocked. Then unulock the left door and go into it up into the next level and so on. Then when you arrive in the last room You have to hit the creatures into the pit where they belong. Then go up to get the Completion Star, and your time will become your new personal record. What I like to do after I complete the Rictusempra Challenge is go to the Dueling Club and duel other members. After you beat levels, the courts change. Then finish all of the other challenges. When you arrive at the Chamber Of Secrets, I have barely any advice. The only advice I have is that when fighting the Basilisk in the second round, only hit him when his mouth is open. Before you fight the Basilisk, you must gain a lot of health. After you defeat Tom Riddle and the Basilisk, you end up in Dumbledore's office. Go up to the top of his office and look for a Wizard card. Then, when you are finished, do not i mean DO NOT go to the feast. First, you must make sure you have every Silver Wizard card to advance to the Gold Wizard card Challenge. If you do not have every Silver Wizard card, I would duel people and buy cards from sellers. That is all the advice I have. And I recommend to purchase Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

One great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: March 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is the best of the 4 Harry Potter games. The graphics are good,the music is good,and the gameplay is great. The spells you learn are really creative. This is the hardest Harry Potter game I've played. However,you have to restart the game to acsoss the Main Menu.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: January 12, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Harry Potter was an extraordinary game. You go through challenges, learn new spells, play quidditch, and even duel. You are Harry Potter, and you feel like you really live in a magical world. You even drink the pollyjuice potion and transform into Goyle, a slytherin friend of Malfoy. You verse Tom Marvolo Riddle(Voldemort),a giant snake called a basilisk, and a giant spider called Aragog. You truly need to use the best spells. Enjoy!

A Good Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: June 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

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!

Fantastic

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User

We bought this game for christmas for my son. Every one in the family is into game now. We just love this PC game, each level gets more exciting with a bigger challenge. We are now looking for the strategy book, to learn more about the driferent things to collect to help Harry.

Harry Potter Rules!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 29, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is so wonderful. It is very addictive and I found myself playing for five hours straight when I got it. Then I came back later to play more! The graphics are much better than the previous game and the story flows better. Plus, the game is longer and you get to explore more of Hogwarts. (my fav part!)The Dueling and Quidditch are really fun and beautiful. If you haven't bought this game, you're nuts!

Awesome, but...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 30, 2002
Author: Amazon User

As usual, EA has produced a great game. However, there are just two things I did not like about this game:

1.) My own personal fear is spiders. If you as afraid of spiders as I am (I've screamed my way through at least three parts in this game!), I wouldn't recommend it.

2.) It's too involved. Halfway through the game, it's hard to remember why you started, or where you have been or haven't been. Maybe that what the kids like these days, but I find I don't have the attention span for all of the facets of this game. There are 50 bronze wizard cards, 11 gold cards and a bunch of Silver Wizard cards. They all get you something different if you collect them all. Then there are wizarding duels, bean trading, wiggenweld potion and Quiddich matches, and sooo much more!

Like I said, I really enjoyed the game, but found it a bit too involved (and very spider-y!!). I'd give this one 4 1/2 stars anyway because it IS a great game.

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