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 | LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 |
| List Price: | $29.99 |
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Product Description
Build the adventure from Privet Drive to the Triwizard Tournament and experience the magic of the first four Harry Potter stories - LEGO style! Explore Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, learn spells, brew potions and relive the adventures like never before with tongue-in-cheek humor and creative customization that is unique to LEGO videogames!Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1417 in Video Games
- Brand: Warner Bros
- Model: 1000110074
- Released on: 2010-06-29
- ESRB Rating: Everyone 10+
- Platform: Windows XP
- Format: CD
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
Features
- Experience your favorite Harry Potter moments through the proven prism of the LEGO video game franchise.
- Explore iconic settings including Hogwarts castle, Diagon Alley, the Forbidden Forest and the village of Hogsmeade. LEGO Hogwarts castle is a grand, immersive 3-D environment and the largest, most detailed LEGO game location ever built.
- Play as Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger as well as other favorite characters with over 100 possible options.
- Attend lessons, cast spells, mix potions, fly on broomsticks, and complete tasks to earn points.
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Buggy version and not correctly advertized
I'm trying to divide my
review into two parts: 1) The game. 2) The bugs.
1) The game. The
game is an innovative take on the standard Lego game engine (which I
have been used to from the Star Wars versions), with a much more fluid
game interface and transition giving it a stronger feel of a cohesive
world. I'm not that familiar with the Harry Potter story, but my son
(the game player) finds that it fits right in with the story line. I did
notice that the Lego tradition of no dialog (only grunting) in the
video transitions completely breaks down. If you don't know the movies
(or at least the book) they make no sense. It took my son over 8 hours
to play the game through to the end (just to get to the levels, not to
do the free play). Overall it is a fun game for those who like Harry
Potter and the general Lego take on these things in its games. Just on
that basis I would give it a 4 star rating.
2) The bugs. Their
technical support tells me that Windows 7 is not supported. I have a
laptop with Windows 7 and better graphics which would crash. There were
two types of crashes. Random crashes that just didn't repeat if you
replayed the level, and then there were two specific points in the game
which crashed 100% of the time. I was able to get around those crashes
by lowering the graphics setting in one place, and raising it back up in
the other. I moved it to an older Vista machine, and it works (it
crashes on exit, but who cares?). That older Vista machine has a lousy
graphics card and to the credit of the game makers, they adjust the
graphics down to compensate, so the game works fine. I have to say that
first of all Amazon is incorrectly listing this game as compatible with
Windows 7, so beware, and second of all it is not acceptable to release a
game incompatible with Windows 7 8 months after it is released to the
general public. Who do they think are buying these games with
sophisticated graphics? Exclusively people with year-old machines?
Unacceptable.
I have asked Amazon for what their resolution to
this matter will be. I expect them to refund customers even with open
boxes. Although I got the game to work because I happen to have an older
Vista machine, most won't, and the game simply doesn't work as
advertised.
EDIT: Just heard back from Amazon customer service -
they are indeed refunding it even if the product was opened. Since I
found a way to get the game to work, I probably will not be returning
it, but good for Amazon for making it right.
Great game once you get past the workarounds and
hardware requirements
Best (and simplest) LEGO game
yet and suitable for all ages.
Excellent tech support (and you
most likely will need it). Be sure your machine WELL EXCEEDS the basic
hardware requirements required for the game to function properly. I
would even recommend that it surpasses recommended hardware specs for a
trouble-free gaming experience as this game makes some serious demands
on your system if run with all options enabled.
I had many issues
and challenges with this game the first weeks after release but have
since resolved all challenges I faced both with TT Games support and
through personal trial and error. Now it's back to fun and am looking to
complete it this weekend.
Incidentally, I am running this on
Windows 7 32-bit with 4 GB of RAM on an Intel Dual-Core 1.86 GHz
machine. Just make sure that you have a VERY good video card with
sufficient power to run this game. Some of the later levels are very
graphics intensive and will bog your machine down to crash mode if you
do not have sufficient resources.
Kids
of all ages should love this game
My 6 year old son has been
into Legos for 2 years, and he likes the first few Harry Potter games,
so I decided to try this one. The keyboard controls aren't that
difficult for an adult, but they are a little hard for a 6 year old. No
matter, he loves watching the game and following along.
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