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Hmmmm.....

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game for PC right around the time it came out. I did not have an Xbox at the time. It was really fun on PC with lots of time to explore the castle, collect beans, play Quidditch, and trade beans for different items, not to mention learning magic.

I liked this game so much that when I got an Xbox 360 I decided to get this game for it as well.

I was very excited and the game was fun at first. It did have a recurring problem though, where the the picture moved very slow but the audio moved at regular speed. But it was really no big deal and I kept playing the game. The environment around the school was very cool and it was fun exploring the castle.

Then it started getting really challenging when you would sneak out at night or do a "Spell book challenge." Like many people have said before, the camera angles do not do anything to help you jump in the right direction. This led to falling off of a platform and losing all of the beans I might have been carrying. It was extremely frustrating. Also books, ghosts, and flying jars for some reason attack you, causing you to drop your beans. The fire crabs get extremely annoying too.

Overall I was not too impressed. At times it was fun but mostly just frustrating. To be honest, I would much rather play the game on PC. There is so much more to do and it is so much more fun.

harry's returns to hogwarts

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

the game was fun and good and the last battle I killed tom riddle and hermine is kind of cute

VERY, VERY, VERY dissapointing

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: September 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is the worst game I have ever played! ok, so not as bad as Syberia for xbox but bad enough that I would rate it 2 stars! even though the storyline is ok, the game ended to quickly. Also, the battle scenes (Harry practicing his magic on the washing machine) was very fake and very boring. The washing machine moved in a pattern all the time so there was no surprise to what it would do next.

If you ever want to play this game, I suggest that you should be able to withstand the annoying save games (you can't allways save the game whenever you want). So go ahead and give it a try if you aren't afraid of wasting your money.

Extremely fun but too short

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: July 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

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.

Magic gone WILD!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: June 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is great. I would question the buttons and handling myself but the magic and action makes up the missiong star. This is a great game for anyone.

Cute and fun game.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: August 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I loved playing Harry and the animation, music, and settings are beautiful. I only wish the teachers played a more important part and Gilderoy exposed like in the book and movie.

Also, Aragog was more tough to beat than the Basilisk, but still I enjoyed this game and have played it many times since.

Much Too Short

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 31, 2003
Author: Amazon User

In three words that really sums it up for me. The game itself is pretty fun, but I ended up beating it in a day because it was just too short. I was also disappointed with the ending being much too easy and hurried. Additionally, I second whoever wrote in their review that the camera angles are just not helpful and that the issue of losing your beans every time you're hit is such a pain. I suppose that was it really.. most of the levels are pretty fun, just not long enough.

Fun game with a few frustrating spots

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 11 / 11
Date: July 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This was a really fun game that basically goes through the plot of the Chamber of Secrets story line, letting you play Harry. The graphics are great, and the story line is well done. There's a good mix of the linear storyline with the option to go off exploring "at night" to collect wizard cards or play some games.

The one thing that I found incredibly frustrating was some of the "jumping" quests where I felt like I was fighting camera angle and the game implementation rather than doing anything that required real skill. I almost got to the point of giving up on the game at one point.

Much better the 2nd time around

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: June 20, 2003
Author: Amazon User

We are a family of Harry Potter fans. I am actually a bigger fan than my two boys (40 and a fan gheez, makes mom proud!) We rented the first one the graphics on the 2nd game (Chamber of Secrets) are so much more superior and the game is more challenging and although my 8 year old finish the game to the end in one long evening *very long evening* but it is still fun. It gave him a sense of contentment. He was able to beat the game so he is smarter than the game. That sort of stuff. He is now mentoring my 5 year old on how to play. (he was less interested)
I think the perfect age group is 6 to 101 well at least 40 + since I am not a gamer and I play harry potter because...well because I can!

good but room for improvement

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: May 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

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

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