Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone

by Aspyr

Product Features

• Play the role of Harry Potter
• Sneak, climb, and jump as you explore 3-D environments
• Play fast-paced, arcade-style Quidditch
• Interact with more than 20 characters
• For 1 player

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005UKJH
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 1.6 x 9.6 inches ; 2.4 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: February 28, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #25,865 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: Mac

Amazon.com Product Description

Play as Harry Potter in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Learn to master all things magical in a world filled with wizardry, fun, and danger. The adventure begins at Privet Drive, then moves swiftly to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Attend lessons, learn and cast spells, and explore characters such as Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, Draco Malfoy, and Rubeus Hagrid. Overcome physical, mental, and magical challenges to defeat the evil plans of You-Know-Who.

Sneak, climb, and jump as you explore 3-D environments based on Hogwarts and its grounds. Learn to fly on a broomstick and play fast-paced, arcade-style Quidditch and win house points for Gryffindor. Battle evil creatures using all of Harry's abilities while uncovering special items including the invisibility cloak, wizard sweets, potion ingredients, Chocolate Frog Famous Wizard Cards, and broomsticks.

Journey into the world of Harry Potter and interact with more than 20 characters from J.K. Rowling's magical world, including Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, Rubeus Hagrid, the Dursleys, and Albus Dumbledore. This is the only licensed interactive Mac game of the Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone bestselling book and motion picture.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome game for beginning and novice gamers!, January 4, 2003

By 

Irene Y "elevatia" (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Harry Potter & The Sorcerer's Stone (Mac) (CD-ROM)

I can't believe I'm writing this with the likes of 6 to 13 year olds (I'm 24), but I had so much fun playing this game. I was skeptical at first buying a children's cpu game - ha, was I wrong! HP and the SS really does take you into the world of Harry Potter as you learn to cast spells, collect Bertie Botts Beans and Wizard cards. Best of all, you get to play Quidditch, where you can go back after joining the Quidditch team to play against all 4 houses. (beating all 4 houses is the toughest part in the game to be honest, which I still have yet to do) And I personally loved the graphics.

You start out in Harry Potter like Tomb Raider and Oni in the sense where you have to learn step by step how to do certain things (ie: climb, cast spells) in order to progress through the game and all of the terms are just like out of the book - incendio, alohomora and more. The game follows the pretty basic plot of the story where you get to meet Ron, Hemione, Hagrid and Dumbledore along the way - and teachers like Prof. Flickwick and Prof. Quirrell are the ones who will teach you the spells. Of course, you will face your foes as well - Malfoy, Peeves, Fluffy and eventually you will have to defeat you-know-who - Voldemort!

At times I did wish there were more monsters to challenge against but it's overall a very good game.

Hint: You need to try to collect all 24 wizard cards in order to reveal the very last card. I didn't do that when I first beat the game and had to replay the whole thing in order to get it. So be thorough.

Hint 2: Do download the patch from apple, otherwise you're going to be very irritated because you can't save your game if it blacks out on you. That was the only bug and I'm only on Mac OS 9.5 ...

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Game patch available, November 13, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Harry Potter & The Sorcerer's Stone (Mac) (CD-ROM)

A previous reviewer mentioned a problem with screen blanking during gameplay. A patch is available at http://www.apple.com/games/updates/harrypotter/ that fixes this problem. This should ease some major frustration with an otherwise excellent game.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Fun game...but those dang blackouts!!!, July 22, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Harry Potter & The Sorcerer's Stone (Mac) (CD-ROM)

I loved this game. You could do all the things Harry could in the book. You become a virtual wizard!

But then all came crashing down when the screen goes black. You quit the game and then restart it and your saved spot is black! All that hard work for this?! The patch won't fix it either. Don't bother with this game! I read all of the bad reviews about the screen going black and thought it could never happen to me. But it did. I am running the game on a brand new 2003 12'' powerbook G4 so it is not my computer. Buying this game is a gamble as I see some people don't have a problem with it. Another thing I don't like about it is how slow harry moves and how stiff her seems. This is for a little kid who doesn't care about aesthetics, just that he is in Harry's world. Though I am sure that the kid will be sorely disappointed when towards the end of the game the screen goes black and he or she cannot continue to the end, but has to start the game over. :(

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