- Publisher: Electronic Arts
- Release Date: Nov 15, 2001
- Also On: PlayStation 2
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80What I liked best about the game was the ease of play. You didn’t have to fumble through spells to see what works. If a spell could be cast, the appropriate spell would be used automatically.
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The PC game does little to replicate the depth of the rich, magical yarn that is woven throughout the Harry Potter series.
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The video game falls short of the quality Potter fans expect, and provides nothing more than a simple platform/adventure game that young fans will adore, but older fans will feel disappointed with.
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70A slightly ropy control system, and disappointing length let us down on what is otherwise a truly enjoyable experience. Flipendo!
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If you’re a Harry Potter fan, this is a surprisingly fun title. The 7-year-old gives [it] four stars. [Mar 2002, p.88]
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70Even if you have no knowledge of things Potterish, detail abounds in the 3D animations, and poking about a school for witches and wizards full of ghosts and secret passages can be enthralling.
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68The game runs poorly on just about any machine.
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64It also seems to me that most of the budget for the game went into licensing. I can't see that a lot of effort was actually spent on the production of the game side of things.
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60This game is about jumping puzzles, timing puzzles, and exploration -- all very simple and not at all challenging.
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59I’m confident that young kids will get a kick out of HP:SC, but everyone else is better off doing their adventuring elsewhere. [Feb 2002, p.68]
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55Underwhelms with an extremely brief story, overly simplistic platform jumping sequences, and repetitive gameplay...Suitable only for children.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 14 out of 19
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Mixed: 3 out of 19
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Negative: 2 out of 19
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HarryPotter10This game rocks and if anyone wishes to know I can do real magic.