Electronic Arts Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Gamecube Adventure Review

Overall Rating
 4 of 5

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5.00 of 5,
2 votes

Price Paid:  $50.00

Summary:
I got this game for christmas and was impressed by its good gameplay and graphics. The game in itself is fun and held my intrest for the rest of winter break. However, all is not perfect in this game. It is not by any means deserving of four straight fives and heres why. The sound and the graphics are perfect. I mean it, very good, but the games few suffering points appear in its gameplay. It would have been nice for the game to follow the story of the book and movies as the game of the lord of the rings did, but this is so far off the actual plot that I wondered at times if the story writer had even read the book or seen the movie. For some reason, you take crap from everyone, if Hermione asks you to get something for her that is no benifit to you, you get it anyway, and all she says is thans, even if the task is extremely difficult. These things did annoy me, but nothing made me write this game off more than Quidditch. Quidditch? No, a better name for this would be race through the rings and get the snitch before the ther seeker. The rest of the team does nothing, and there are now 20 bludgers per game, and they dont even send you flying off your broom. Plus, when you leave the game to have some fun flying around the field and head towards the trench from the movie, you crash in thin air. Since when is air solid? But other than those few thins, the game is great, and the boss battles stick to the movies plot. The quests are usually fun, and not to easy as to make you laugh. Ifact, sometimes they get so difficult you could cry, such as a stupid transfiguration challenge in which you have to make an impossible jump. After your first quidditch practice, for some reason Wood gives you a new Nimbus 2000, when he dosnt even have one, but the enables you to fly around the huge Hogwarts grounds. You can even fly so High that you can barely see the ground. This is fun, but for some strange and most likly stupid reason, you have to land by Neville. Why? Why?

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Price Paid:  $35.00 from kmart, 65 AUD

Summary:
A big surprise and a delightful adventure, im a harry potter fan and this game blew me away with its brilliant graphics and spell casting magic. The voice acting makes u follow the story intensly and it has all the elements of the movie as well, A brilliant adventure game that is way too short for the justice it deserves.

Overall Rating
 4 of 5

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5.00 of 5,
1 votes

Summary:
This game is a HUGE step up from the last Harry Potter game! This one is beautiful to look at but not much fun to play. However I believe EA could set a world record for the number of load points in a single game. GOOD GOD! Can't you break up your levels better than that! It seems every where you go there's a load point. Sacrifice texture quality, geometry, something! Just cut down the number of loads! It seems that I spend the same amount of playing time as I do watching loading screens.

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Price Paid:  $50.00 from Wall-Mart

Summary:
Harry Potter and the Camber of secrets was a big step up from the last Harry Potter game , The Sorcers Stone on the Playstation. This game is by far better. Even though a little short and easy it is real fun. It feels as your in control. You can buy things from george and freds "market". The camera angle is a pain but you will get used to it. "use the c stick" you learn spells from teachers and you can buy a book from F&G "market" , to get an extra spell. What I liked the most was that in your "free time" you could fly your broom any where on hogwarts grounds.

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Price Paid:  $50.00 from Software etc

Summary:
Harry Potter has returned to Hogwarts for his second year in the Chamber of Secrets. Go from when Harry is at the burrow degnoming than solving puzzles at Hogwarts saving the day!