Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

The new Harry Potter game, complimenting the book and movie The Chamber of Secrets is fantastic. The graphics are beautiful and true to the concepts of the books. Game play is exciting and entertaining and includes many fun aspects of the Harry Potter story, including de-gnoming, broom flying and spell casting.

Our whole family enjoyed both playing and watching each other play this game. It feels like a Harry Potter book brought to life!

It looks like very much the first game but with the awaited upgrading in gameplay. Thus it is a real pleasure: the cut-scenes are excellent to give the pace and the mood to the story. If the levels are maybe too long for saving or a bit repetitive, however the suspense is here and you can live the big moments of the book: the meeting with the spider king, the discovery of the chamber of secrets. I don't understand why suddenly the game becomes difficult and you got to be patient and courageous to beat the famous basilik. In fact, in the first stage, you got to move right / left and attacks the basilik when it bows its head. The second stage is more difficult but you got to choose a location and from there, point the basilik head level before it appears and keep attacking. As it moves right /left, you can guess its next apparition. But I won over this big boss and it was really a big fight! A final tip: use the cheat to diminish the impact of any blows because you will need it! So far the best game of the series and a great video game as well!

I really like this Video game, I've got it on Game Boy Color and Advance, PS1, PC and PS2, they are all brilliant. I like the PS2 Version Best, It's one of my favourite EA Games, it was better than the Quidditch World Cup, but not as good as the First game on PS2 (that came out after game 2). The PC Version is good too, better than the first game, the PS1 version is sort of the same as the first game, not as goo as PS2 though, however better, the Game Boy Colour version was good, but the first game was more challenging, this moved a lot smoother. And the game boy advance Version, better than the first game but easier. You must buy this game for PS2, I cant wait for the third game, only 59 days to wait.

This HP game shows signs of improvement if we compare it with the first one...sadly, it is nothing really interesting for hardcore gamers. It's certainly just for kids, but if you want to see the world of HP, this is the game in which you can. The graphics are very attractive, and Hogwarts as well as Hogwarts grounds look splendid. The changes could be called significant, compared to the first game. Beside the better graphics, there are more game play changes:

1) Wizard Cards-more...and in 3 categories: bronze, silver, gold...haven't found all yet;

2) Lessons - each new spell is learned with the help of your keypad...The course for each lesson has an amount of time, and it depends on how much time you have at the end, how many points you get for Gryffindor;

3) Duels - Nice little thingies, where you can use 3 spells...it's a real good way to earn beans, which are of much more use than in HP 1;

4) Quidditch - there's a new controlling system here...I think it's far easier than the first. There are also more games, so you do have enough to play;

The thing that disappointed me most was the battle against the basilisk, which is quite not as I expected it. The end scene looks groovy though. I'd say the game's worth a look if you're passing through a boring period, or if you just want to see the world of Harry Potter once again.