Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
by Electronic Arts
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Video Game Reviews of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Customer Review: Harry Potter
Summary: 3 Stars
I am a HUGE fan of Harry Potter, and this game had its ups and downs. Yes the graphics need work, but I had fun with this game for a month or so. I think younger kids would really like this game because they might not mind the repitition. I wish I hadnt of wasted my money on it though. I got halfway through the game and gave up because it was just the same old thing after awhile (collect a wizard card, walk over some every flavor beans, shout FLIPENDO! at a rock) I give it three stars just because it's kinda cool to know that your favorite book has a video game.Customer Review: Fun use of downtime
Summary: 4 Stars
I'm not really a video game connoisseur, but I like Harry Potter so I tried this one. I liked the graphics though sometimes Harry did seem to walk right inside the wall, and the background music adds nicely to the atmosphere. The computer I run this on is relatively old with Windows 98 and loading the different scenes and walking through the save game books takes a bit of time, and if I play for too long, everything begins to slow down. I enjoy wondering around the castle and the grounds finding secret passages and looking for things and collecting beans and wizard cards. I like the parts of the game that involve solving puzzles rather than beating someone up (like Malfoy or Peeves). The end sequence I thought was a little easy or pointless. You just have to move back and forth playing a flute (to put Fluffy's three heads to sleep) or casting insendio to make the Devils snare let your friends go.
There are some parts that I am just terrible at. Mostly these involve anything with flying a broomstick. Either I'm an inept flyer or my computer is too slow either way, the flying parts really aren't that much fun anyway, so I just skip them. Overall verdict: playing in the castle, grounds and caves is fun, playing Quidditch is not.
Customer Review: Very, very buggy game
Summary: 1 Stars
This software is extremely buggy. I've tried it on three different PCs, and the same thing happens on all three. The sound disappears after awhile, and there's no way to get it back other than quitting and restarting. The game is also a resource hog. It eats up 500MB (1/2 gigabyte) of your hard disk, and it's slow. Running in a 2.0GHz Pentium 4 with 1GB of RAM, the sound output often skips.Customer Review: Are we missing something?
Summary: 3 Stars
We bought this for our family and while the graphics keep the kids entertained the programming is poor to say the least. Why in the world should you be required to use the key board to manipulated the character? The kids still find it amusing although our five year old is mastering the game rather quickly-we have only had it for three days. Given the world delight with Harry and the gang I should hope that a more refined program will be developed.Customer Review: its alright
Summary: 3 Stars
I bought this game because i loved the book, but it wasn't that great. At the beginning it is really fun because it is just like harry potter. It is cool because you can go to quidditch practice. But, after a while it starts to get boring because you just have to solve simple problems and to me it wasn't entertaining enough. The graphics are pretty good. If you really like Harry Potter then buy it, but it will get boring after a while.