Customer Reviews

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

My five year old son and I played "Sorcerer's Stone" together and loved it. I ordered "Chamber of Secrets" despite the posted comments about its "bugginess". Once we loaded it and gave it plenty of memory the game ran perfectly until...I estimate about a third of the way through, as we shifted from one "challenge trial" to another, the screen went irrevocably black, which in effect ended the game. I called Aspyr and the tech knew just what had happened as all players who are running OS 9 experience this. He told me that they are working on a patch for this problem but he doesn't know when it will be available. We'll probably wait for the patch as we loved the first third (some real improvements over "Sorcerer's Stone). Hadn't even gotten to the first Quidditch match.

The game is great...if you can get it to play. Running the game with OS 9.2.2 their is a glitch that the manufacture (Aspyr) has yet to make a fix for. They say a patch is coming but for the mean time you can only play up through Prof. Flitwick's challange. That aside this game seems much more elaborate and better developed than the first one.

We bought HPCoS with some trepidation over the problems people had with buggy software. I didn't even try to run it under OS9, but under OSX 10.2 we had no particular problems. Running on a G3/300 and a G5/2000 both worked well, though the G3 was pretty darn painful. The voices ran faster than the animation because the Rage 128 card wasn't up to the task. My 5 year old loved it and even managed to do most of it on his own (minus some of the scarier parts).

I am six and this game is awesome. My five-year-old brother loves the game too. I help him a lot. I love this game because it's so cool and magical. I just wish I could be Harry Potter and my friends could be Ron Weasley. It never freezes on me. We are running System X.

We ran this on powerpc G5s, running OSX (iMacs).

Great game, more than just motor skills, but problem solving. My daughters and I completed all the challenges, defeated the basilisk, won all the duels, but have yet to figure out how to get gold wizard cards.

How does one get them?

We recommend this software game for adults and children.

I am running OS X (10.2.6) and the program is incredibly buggy. Very frustrating for adults, but a total deal-breaker for kids! There are problems saving and problems crashing. We had problems with the last Potter game, too, but subsequent patches from Aspyr and the use of cheat codes to jump levels (to avoid game freezes) saved the day. There are no patches from Aspyr yet for Chamber of Secrets and I am not inclined to go through the painful rigamarole of helping them fix a program which feels like it is barely out of the beta stage of development. AVOID.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is a great game.
You start out by the Womping Willow and you have to save Ron.That part's easy.But the challenges are a lot harder.
There are "fire crabs"who shoot flames at you, and the fire snails chase you when they see you, and revive quickly after you put Ricktusempra on them.
Fred and George set up a bean trading system so you can buy Nimbus 2001's, and other really cool stuff!
If you have floberworm mucus and wiggentree bark, when you walk up to a cauldron, you get a potion that gives you full health when you press the space bar!!
When you get 10 bronze wizard cards, you get another health bar!!
This is definitely better than the first game.

I can watch the first three cut scenes and that is all.
It glitches while attempting to load the actual game (the start by the whomping willow). Can't tell you if the game has other glitches, I can't get past the first one.
I'm on an OS X 10.6.8.

Like it says up there, just suck up the bugs. I own this game for GC and the graphics SUCK!! And don't even get me started on excessive long loading times. Thhe graphics on the PC are not much better than GC (if not at all), but deal with the glitches and bugs and stuff, Pc and Mac users. Buy this game for GC and you'll see what I mean. Way too easy difficulty.

Don't buy this game. The parts that work are fun, but there are so many hang ups, freezes, and blank screens that the fun quickly becomes pure frustration. Not too far into the game, you simply cannot proceed. Aspyr informed me that they were aware of the problems and were working on fixes. They also said this was "mostly" a problem with OS 9 users.