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EXELLENT

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: December 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

its fun,real and makes you feel as if you were the real harry potter in hogwarts

Want to Waste Your Time?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: December 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I think whomever wrote this game is a sadist. You can't get past the flying lesson, and once in, you have to go through different levels of difficulty. Want to save your game? Too bad! You can't get away from the flying lesson to save your progress. I can't think that the author of Harry Potter would want poor Harry flying endless attempts to get out of Madame Hooch's lesson. I tried to find other areas in the castle to explore, but all roads lead to the flying lesson. Bah Humbug!

It is my duty to discourage people from buying this game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Short review for skimmers: It took me only seven hours to finish this game with 93%. So, had I bought it at full price, that works out to a little less than five dollars an hour. You can rent it at Blockbuster for five dollars and finish the whole thing. Don't buy this game.

Yes, this is a movie license title, and no, I wasn't expecting it to be good. I wasn't expecting it to be totally awful, either. The major reason why I'm angry at this game isn't the ugly graphics, total lack of music, or even the mediocre controls (watch the game slow to a near stop as it attempts to draw Harry and several wooden crates!). It's the story and characters, which should be the most important thing in a movie license title. I like Harry Potter, and this ain't it.

The story is a vague mishmash of fetch quests and scenes from the movie that don't really tie together. Although the voice acting is excellent (!), the characters act nothing like themselves. Or like actual people. Practically every bit of dialogue in the entire game can be boiled down to "Go fetch me this item, because I'm too lazy and/or stupid to do it myself!" Since the voice acting is so good, I was tempted to grab some clips, but since the characters say nothing remotely interesting, I decided not to. Did I mention the graphics are ugly? The first Resident Evil looked better than this, and it came out in 1996.

Lest you think I'm being excessively harsh, let me give you some examples of Playstation games that are better than this one:
Better dialogue - Chrono Cross, X-Men: Mutant Academy
Better graphics - the entire Final Fantasy series, the entire Resident Evil series
Better gameplay - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Crash Bandicoot
Better story/characters - All of the above

Missing the Magic

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game has good graphics, but lacks sufficient challenges. Furthermore, the game lacked options for exploring the many levels it has to offer. For example, if you were unable or unwilling to finish a challenge, the game gave no option of moving to an alternative level until you could come back to the other. Very flat scenario.

harry potter and the sorcerer's stone

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

In this game you play young Harry and you are set surtan tasks do do on your way to lesons some are very easy others ant so like at the bank collecting you money is hard and fast but you all so are on the same story line as the film !

Movie vs. Video Game? I'd Take The Movie

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Movies being transformed into video games? It sounds like a good concept and sometimes the results are quite satisfying. Games such as Blade Runner for the PC and Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers for the PS2 have received critical acclaim. However, the same can't be said with the PS1 version of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. EA Games did pick a nice choice for developing the game (London's Argonaut Software, who designed the classic StarFox for SNES), but the two don't mix very well.

First of all, let me say that I'm not one who says graphics over gameplay. It should be the other way around. Heck, look at the original Legend of Zelda. [bad] graphics by today's standards, but the gameplay revolutionized the action/adventure genre big time, and it's still fun today. The same can't be said with HPATSS. Even by the PS1's standards, the graphics are mediocre at best, and the gameplay is just too frustratingly easy to call it enjoyable. When you're in the chessboard level towards the end of the game, the pieces don't even follow the rules of chess. It's a free-for-all against you and the other black and white pieces. However, some of the gameplay can be quite enjoyable. Slicing live suits of armor in half in Hogwarts' upper castle is reminiscent of slicing baddies in caves in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.

Plotwise, the game reveals very little. Why would Harry pick Gryffindor over Slytherin, some gamers might ask? You'd have to read the book or see the movie in order to get the plot. On the plus side, you suspect that Snape is trying to steal the Stone, unlike in the movie, where you could tell Quirrell's stuttering was fake, which made him a very suspicious character. Hey, I read the book before seeing the movie, so I guess that's why I feel that way. However, like I said before, some gamers who haven't seen the movie or read the book might be confused when they see Voldemort's face at the back of Quirrell's head. How the heck did that get there?

Overall, HPATSS is a game that will generally appeal to fans of the movies and novels. However, there may be some exeptions. Being a mild fan of the movies and a bigger fan of the novels, I found the game to be rather dull and farcical at times (why is Hermione still smiling and patting her books when she's nearly an inch from death?). Oh, well. Beggers can't be choosers. I wouldn't own the game, but it wouldn't hurt to rent it.

Harry Potter - Best Game EVER!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 9
Date: November 07, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I have actually played the game at a conference I went to, and it is the BEST GAME EVER. How could you not like Harry Potter, unless you're a muggle of course! Ha ha! But seriously, you get to play Quiddich, and it doesn't get any better than that! It sure beats the Harry Potter Casting Stones game I bought this summer. And the Harry Potter puzzles I did when it rained. OK, OK, so I think there should be a bigger love story between Harry and Hermione, but that's J.K.'s fault, and not Electronic Arts. BUY THIS GAME BEFORE VOLDEMORT RISES AGAIN!!!

DON'T BUY THIS GAME

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 9
Date: July 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

YOU MIGHT THINK HARRY POTTER LOKS FUN AND COOL BUT IT STINKS! I RENTED IT IT WAS PRETTY EASY TO A POINT.NOTING IN THE GAME WAS IN THE BOOK. IWOULD GIVE IT 0 STARS ,BUT I CANT!

this game is good

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: November 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

the game is good/hard/fun but the picture isn't that good

It was a difficult gam, but VERY enjoyable

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: November 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I was very impressed by this game, I was thinking that it wasn't going to be very good, because of that there wasn't going to be very much to do... but I was wrong. The creators of this game, and J.K. Rowling are extremly talented, and I hope they contuine given smiles to people all over the world. Thank You

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