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Game Information
- Platform: PlayStation
- ELSPA Minimum Age: 3
- Media: Video Game
Technical Details
- Bring the world of Harry Potter home to your PSone (also works on PlayStation 2)
- Explore the numerous, captivating 3D environments based on Hogwarts
- Attend lessons where you learn spells and potions through fun mini games
- Battle evil creatures using all of Harry’s abilities
- Chase down Draco Malfoy on a flying broomstick
- Interact with over twenty popular characters from the book
- Take a fast-paced 3D roller coaster ride through Gringotts
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Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
The history of video games is littered with translations of films--most of them bad. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, while most certainly created around the feature film's visualisation of the Harry Potter story, is actually very good, despite being too easy for most experienced gamers. It's a fun, colourful experience even for the few of us left on this planet who have neither read the books nor watched the movie.
Electronic Arts thankfully placed a lot of emphasis on production value for this release instead of taking the cheap cash-in option. Aside from the occasional pop-up problem that makes walls vanish quite un-magically, the graphics are beautiful and fun. Chocolate frogs (an appropriate health power-up) and other elements and characters from the book and film are wonderfully animated. The sound effects and, particularly, the voice acting are top drawer, which helps draw the player into the Potter experience. Also, the gameplay is nicely varied throughout. Players go from learning a new spell in class, to retrieving fire seeds for Hagrid, to magic fights against the Slytherin bully Draco Malfoy, to riding the broom--which is especially fun. There's even a Quidditch level early on, but there's little to do and it's over very quickly.
On the downside, the game suffers from some really odd control. Like a lot of adventure games, jumping is really important since many levels require you to clear obstacles or reach out-of-the-way items. But, unlike nearly every other game in the genre, there's no jump button. Instead, players automatically jump from the edge of a platform from either a full stop or while running. It takes a lot of getting used to because, if you're not at full run or full stop, it's easy to just walk right off the edge and fall. And, like too many other games, you can only save your game at predetermined locations in the game.
Another fault of this game is its lack of challenge for experienced gamers. It's nice that they're trying to make it accessible to the entire cross section of PlayStation-owning Harry Potter fans, but without varying levels of difficulty, it's less of a game than a tour through Potter's magical world. Still, it is an interesting world, and even through it's easy, the action is still varied enough to be fun. --Porter B Hall
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (PS)
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Harry Potter Game Review,
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This review is from: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (PS) (Video Game)
I think that this Harry Potter Game is fantastic. The graphics are brilliant and all the main aspects of the game are marvellous. The inventors of it really managed to capture what JK Rowling did in the books. All the things that are good about it would go on for ever!
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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The Amazing Harry Potter,
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This review is from: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (PS) (Video Game)
Harry Potter, it amazed kids and even adults. Now its a game. Great!.This was one of the best games for the playstation I have ever played. The graphics are great and you can never get bored of playing quidditch and wondering around Hogwarts. I think the best thing in the game would be the closest thing to the book. The spells. You can learn new spells. For stuff like defeating the monsters and gets through difficuties. The controls are simple to master and sometimes move for you(jump). But some of the levels are a bit easy and are just sutible for 4 and 5 years old. But it is still a great game. Another good thing is that it isn't just Hogwarts all the time. Its London and Diagon Ally. Choosing your wand and Gringotts bank was just superb. The effects of the ride to the vaults were great. And the voices of the people just sounded like the real ones in the movie. This was a great game with great sound and effects. I know I will be playing on this for a long, long time. Ian Ford
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Wizard Game!,
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This review is from: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (PS) (Video Game)
Hi I'm Jamie and I have watched the film yesterday, so i wanted to play the game as soon as possible. I think the game is very replayable. The game dosnt follow the story of the film or the book. It is however based on the characters and all the scenery. Any true Harry Potter would enjoy it. I started playing it, and could not put it down. I was on it for 5 hours.Harry runs about shouting 'Flipendo', which is the standard attack against small baddies.The spells are very cool. and there are several ones you have to do yourself, and they are from the books. You learn the spells from lessons. It isnt particluarly hard or frustrating, unlike sone other games. It is a real pleasure to play.
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