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A Fun Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This version of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets isn't as fun as the PS2, XBOX, and Gamecube versions but it's still fun enough to play. I found that the things that they left out of the PS2, XBOX, and Gamecube versions are in this game(like the Professor Sprout level, the flying car and the slide to the chamber) and same goes for the PS2, XBOX, and Gamecube versions, Whatever's in these versions are not in the PS1 version.(it's the same way with the first game) So if you put the PS1 with the PS2 or XBOX or Gamecube versions together you pretty much have the whole movie.I still can't get past that slide going to the chamber and on the first game I'm stuck in the wizard's bank(can't spell their name).I think of this game as one of them games that when you have no other game to play this is the game to play, probably cause I haven't beat this game nor the first game yet.

Harry Potter Chamber of Secrets PSgame

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I purchased this game for my son who is an avid Harry Potter fan. Some of the graphics are not that great, but he loves it and he especially likes the flying car part of the game. It is one he plays again and again.

Fun, But Short

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I tried this game and it was fun, including the part with the Basilsk. I would like it to be a bit longer. Any Harry Potter fan should buy this game.

The Chamber of Secrets has been opened.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: May 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The game Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets for the PS1 is very fun. Now I'm a master at video games but when I got this game 3 years ago, it was very difficult (and it still is). I beat this game like 2 years ago, and I still play it. The Harry Potter and the Prisiner of Azkaban game is way much easier than this. That game took me 2 weeks to beat it. This game took me nearly a year beat!The graphiics may stink (It's PS1 and not Xbox) but this is still a really hard and fun game. You can drive the flying car, go to Ron's house, play quidditch, find secret passage ways, explore Hogwarts, and duel other people. Doesn't all that sound like fun to you even though the graghics stink. This game is way much better than Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Don't you think so?

Good...but not great.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game was fun, but I didn't like the loads(they took WAY too long.) Also,the camera was a little strange. I did like all the secrets and passages. Overall, it was good, but not great.

Jump from platform to platform to platform to platform . . .

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

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.

Yes, It's Fun the First Time...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

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)

Great game, but rather short

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: April 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

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!

Live in Harry's World

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: January 20, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This games follows the book version more closely than the movie. Aside from solving the Chamber of Secrets puzzle, you can involve yourself in collecting famous wizard and witches cards, look for other hidden passages and ride around the castle rooftops on your broom. The difficulty is about a "medium"; easy enough to solve and win over but challenging and inventive enough to keep from getting bored. One complaint: maneuvering Harry to stand exactly where you want him to (required in a handful of critical moments during the game) is a nuisance.

Highly recommended for hopeless HP fanatics (like myself) and lovers of RPGing (ditto).

The New Auto Save is the Bomb!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: January 12, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is probably a tad easier and more fun than the first HP game for PS. The new auto save is awesome. In the menu (well, actually it will give you an option when you start playing), you can choose if you want Auto Save on or off. Auto Save saves the game automatically after any challenging task or certain point, rather than saving only a few times after something simple, and then never being able to save until eons after something extremely challenging.

Anyway, the game itself is really cool. There are the basic places and such as the first game, but new characters (Dobby, Gilderoy Lockhart, the basilisk, Ginny Weasley, Mr. Lucius Malfoy, and Cornelius Fudge, etc.)

Harry must go through a series of events at Hogwarts and several tasks to collect items to create the Polyjuice Potion, collecting Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans for Fred and George, and so forth.

The game is... how should I say... easy and challenging at the same time. To make it clear, you would be doing something challenging, but in an easy way. This game, in my opinion, is not as hard as the first game. You can return to Quidditch practices any time you feel the need to practice (a letter won't arrive saying you NEED to practice).

The gameplay has new challenging battles and the like. You must steer the Ford Anglia (better known as the flying car) ahead of the Hogwarts Express train to make it to Hogwarts (which I found very similar to the mine cart journey in the first HP game), you have to slide down the chimney after using the Floo Powder (you go extremely fast), you have to dodge away from the rogue Bludger at the Quidditch match, go to your classes and learn new spells and charms, you have to collect the Pixies that Lockhart sets off, and there are many more exciting parts and pieces to this delightful game.

The graphics and sound are very realistic. And when I mean challenging at times, I mean that you can get head aches from the game, so I wouldn't try to hard.

All in all, this game is truly one of my faves!! =)

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