Customer Reviews

Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets

5 star:		(10)
4 star:		(18)
3 star:		(8)
2 star:		(5)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

is this a game or heaven? is totally different from the first. The 3D graphics are outstanding. Includes everything from the book. Long enough. The game is SOOOOOOOOOOO cool. It has a replay value of over 10. overall, this game is the coolest.

I received a GBA from my brother, & because I'm a fan of Harry Potter this was the 1st game I bought. I really enjoyed playing it, & found that I couldn't stop playing it!

I was impressed by the graphics, & the sound was pretty good (The last handheld I had was the original clunky Gameboy) so this was a suprise to see how it's changed graphically.

The story wasn't the best (Nothing like the Gamecube version), but I liked performing the tasks, & it was in a way almost relaxing to play this game. It definately made long drives less long.

Although I must admit I suck at Quidditch... Oh well, we can't all be a Viktor Krum...

I took this with me on my deployment and I must say I really enjoyed this game. It had me hooked after the arrival at Hogwarts. The graphics are pretty good for such a little screen and the controls weren't too hard. No need to use cheats with this one... it can be done, even when you think you are stuck!

I got this game for Christmas and beat it with in days. I was shocked at the easiness of the game. I also own Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone for GBC and that was really cool the graphics were bad but the story was awesome. It included things that the movie forgot and was a better game. U had better abilities and more of a challenge. This game was just simple a baby could beat it. I was expecting better because of GBA but I was very disappointed but it gave me a few hours of fun.

While the graphics and size of this game are impressive for a GBA title, it is still an overwhelmingly bad game. First it is fairly boring, consisting mostly of going through long dungeon areas and flipping one switch after another. This gets pretty repetitive during the first dungeon in Gringott's Bank, but the dungeons keep coming throughout the game and all of them feel exactly the same. There is very little action to speak of. It's all about flipping switches, moving blocks onto switches, avoiding teachers and jumping onto platforms. Speaking of jumping, the game also has an awful control system. To give the game a 3-D look, everything is on an isometric diagonal view and most of the time you must move diagonally. Unfortunately the GameBoy Advance control pad is not really made for that much diagonal movement and it is very awkward moving Harry around. You can change the set-up so that Harry will move diagonally if you press in the easier Up, Down, Left and Right directions, but this just makes it more confusing. There are still other problems. You only get one save file, so if a second person wants to play, they must delete the first player's game. And there is no sleep mode, so you have to find one of the save points before you turn off the game or else lose whatever progress you may have made (not good for people who play in short stretches on the subway for instance). The music is okay, but really nothing special. Also I found it strange that you don't get to control the flying car in the beginning of the game. Maybe you will get the opportunity later in the game when escaping the spiders, but I doubt I will play it long enough to get there, it's just too boring.

I got this game for Christmas last year, thinking I would really love it. However, I found it not to be what I had expected after I began playing.
The graphics and music are very impressive for a GBA game, but the content of the game is second-rate. It is a very butchered adaptation of the book and the movie. There isn't that much action in it--even the Quidditch game is kind of dull and the climax where you fight the (very stupid-looking) Basilisk isn't anything special.
One of the few good things about the game are the bonuses you can find. For collecting the 5 wizard cards in each set gives you something extra (for example, collecting all the charms cards gives you the Alohomora spell and collecting all the beasts cards opens a glossary of beasts that's worth checking out). And by collecting all 100 red beans you can play a slide puzzle game. Sometimes getting all of the bonus things will take a while, so you may have to play it several times before you get everything unlocked. The saving system of the game is fair because you don't have to memorize any passwords, but finding the saving points can be annoying if you're running low on patience.
Still, it's a fun game to play the first few times you play it. Heck, I still play it once in a while even after I've had it for a year. I give this game 3 stars because it isn't a game I'd do cartwheels over, but it isn't a waste of money.

This game, harry potter and the chamber of secrets, is................................................................................................................................in one word, well, actually.....it is SURE hard to describe it in just ONE word..... some of the words are: TERRIFIC, WONDERFUL, EXCELLENT, FIVE STARS, SUPREME, EXTREME, SUPER, SURPRISING, PACKED-WITH-ADVENTURE, THRILLS, AND ACTION! It is just TOO wonderful!

My favorite part was earning spells and wizard trading cards. I didn't really understand the game until I got past Gringotts. Messages from the owls were very helpful. I had fun beating the trolls, too. It's hard to catch the golden snitch. The game kept me challenged for a couple of months until I finally beat it. The basilisk was really easy to beat at the end of the game. I recommend it to any Harry Potter fan.

i expected much, much more from this game. i thought that after harry potter and the sorceror's stone came out on gba, the makers would realize how horrible this game is. it starts off okay with a cute little intro to the game, but it just goes downhill from there. going up and down stairs is extremely difficult and quidditch is almost unbearable. there are many times when you have no clue what to do or where to go because there is no direction whatsoever. when i got this game, i expected a whole lot more. maybe the people who realeased this should have spent more time on creating a quality game instead of focusing on the quantity.

I was very dissapointed with this game. I'm a huge fan of Harry Potter, and I thought this game would be a blast. It turned out I could beat the game in 24 hours. It was fun the first time I beat it, but it ended up being a snore the last couple of times. I do have to admit, there were some parts i was stuck on for a little bit, but it ended up being a sinchy thing I forgot you could do. DO NOT GET THIS GAME! It's just a waste of money. My brother took it with him on field trip and lost it though. I'm kinda glad because he ended up buying me a new game that is more challenging. It was "SuperMarioAdvance3:Yoshi's Island", and that's a great game. You should stick with mario games is my opinion.