- Bring the world of Harry Potter home to your PSone (also works on PlayStation 2).
- Explore the numerous, captivating 3D environments based on Hogwarts.
- Attend lessons where you learn spells and potions through fun mini games.
- Battle evil creatures using all of Harry’s abilities.
- Chase down Draco Malfoy on a flying broomstick.
- Interact with over twenty popular characters from the book.
- Take a fast-paced 3D roller coaster ride through Gringotts.
Product Description
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What if you could leave the non-magical world of the Muggles
behind and enrol in Hogwarts School of Wizardry and Witchcraft?
Now you can find out in the PSone release Harry Potter and the
Philosopher's Stone. Play as Harry, the precocious wizard, and
adventure with him and amazing characters from the JK Rowling
book that started it all. Climb, jump and sneak as you explore
3-D environments faithful to Hogwarts and its grounds. Master
your wizardry skills, such as piloting a broomstick, casting
spells, gathering items to mix potions, scoring points for
Gryffindor, and more. Learn your lessons and uncover wizard
sweets, broomsticks, chocolate frogs, famous wizard cards and
even the invisibility cloak.
Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, Rubeus Hagrid, Albus Dumbledore,
and many of the book's other characters join Harry as he masters
the sport of Quidditch, takes a 3-D roller-coaster ride through
Gringotts, and shops at Diagon Alley. Explore Hogwarts, its
grounds, the Forbidden Forest and more as you play through
puzzles and mini-games and battle evil creatures. The game uses
colourful 3-D graphics to capture the daring and enchantment of
Harry's world, rendering it in spirited detail. And as Harry,
you'll experience the adventure and thrill of a young wizard's
first year at Hogwarts, as well as the awesome responsibility of
finding the Sorcerer's Stone and challenging
He-Who-Cannot-Be-Named. But first you'll have to complete your
courses...
.co.uk Review
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The history of video games is littered with translations of
films--most of them bad. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's
Stone, while most certainly created around the feature film's
visualisation of the Harry Potter story, is actually very good,
despite being too easy for most experienced gamers. It's a fun,
colourful experience even for the few of us left on this planet
who have neither read the books (
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Electronic Arts thankfully placed a lot of emphasis on
production value for this release instead of taking the cheap
cash-in option. Aside from the occasional pop-up problem that
makes walls vanish quite un-magically, the graphics are beautiful
and fun. Chocolate frogs (an appropriate power-up) and
other elements and characters from the book and film are
wonderfully animated. The sound effects and, particularly, the
voice acting are top drawer, which helps draw the player into the
Potter experience. Also, the gameplay is nicely varied
throughout. Players go from learning a new spell in class, to
retrieving fire for Hagrid, to magic fights against the
Slytherin bully Draco Malfoy, to riding the broom--which is
especially fun. There's even a Quidditch level early on, but
there's little to do and it's over very quickly.
On the downside, the game suffers from some really odd control.
Like a lot of adventure games, jumping is really important since
many levels require you to clear obstacles or reach
out-of-the-way items. But, unlike nearly every other game in the
genre, there's no jump button. Instead, players automatically
jump from the edge of a platform from either a full stop or while
running. It takes a lot of getting used to because, if you're not
at full run or full stop, it's easy to just walk right off the
edge and fall. And, like too many other games, you can only save
your game at predetermined locations in the game.
Another fault of this game is its lack of challenge for
experienced gamers. It's nice that they're trying to make it
accessible to the entire cross section of PlayStation-owning
Harry Potter fans, but without varying levels of difficulty, it's
less of a game than a tour through Potter's magical world. Still,
it is an interesting world, and even through it's easy, the
action is still varied enough to be fun. --Porter B Hall
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Manufacturer's Description
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Be Harry Potter in this PSone game. Learn to master all things
magical in a world filled with wizardry, fun and danger. Attend
lessons, learn and cast spells and represent Gryffindor in
Quidditch. Interact with characters like Ron Weasley, Hermione
Granger, Draco Malfoy and Rubeus Hagrid. Overcome mental and
magical challenges to defeat You-Know-Who.
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