Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #7899 in Digital Video Games
- Brand: Warner Bros
- Released on: 2010-06-29
- ESRB Rating: Everyone 10+
- Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
- Format: Download
Features
- Play as Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger as well as other favorite characters.
- Explore the wizarding world including Hogwarts? castle, Diagon Alley?, the Forbidden Forest and the village of Hogsmeade?.
- Attend lessons, cast spells, mix potions, fly on broomsticks and complete tasks to earn house points.
- Cast a spell with a friend and play through the first four stories as a team with Drop-in, Drop-out Co-Op play.
LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 [Online Game Code]
Product Description
Build the adventure from Privet Drive to the Triwizard Tournament and experience the magic of the first four Harry Potter™ stories – LEGO® style! Explore Hogwarts™ School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, learn spells, brew potions and relive the adventures like never before with tongue-in-cheek humor and creative customization that is unique to LEGO® videogames!
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System Requirements
| Minimum Specifications: | |
| OS: | Vista and XP |
| Processor: | Intel P4 1.8 GHz/AMD Athlon XP 2200+ |
| RAM: | 512 MB |
| Hard Drive: | 5 GB |
| Video Card: | ATU X1300/NVIDIA GeForce FX 5800 (256 MB RAM) |
| Additional Info: | Unknown |
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
50 of 53 people found the following review helpful.
By Nobody
I'm trying to divide my review into two parts: 1) The game. 2) The bugs.1) The game. The game is an innovative take on the standard Lego game engine (which I have been used to from the Star Wars versions), with a much more fluid game interface and transition giving it a stronger feel of a cohesive world. I'm not that familiar with the Harry Potter story, but my son (the game player) finds that it fits right in with the story line. I did notice that the Lego tradition of no dialog (only grunting) in the video transitions completely breaks down. If you don't know the movies (or at least the book) they make no sense. It took my son over 8 hours to play the game through to the end (just to get to the levels, not to do the free play). Overall it is a fun game for those who like Harry Potter and the general Lego take on these things in its games. Just on that basis I would give it a 4 star rating.2) The bugs. Their technical support tells me that Windows 7 is not supported. I have a laptop with Windows 7 and better graphics which would crash. There were two types of crashes. Random crashes that just didn't repeat if you replayed the level, and then there were two specific points in the game which crashed 100% of the time. I was able to get around those crashes by lowering the graphics setting in one place, and raising it back up in the other. I moved it to an older Vista machine, and it works (it crashes on exit, but who cares?). That older Vista machine has a lousy graphics card and to the credit of the game makers, they adjust the graphics down to compensate, so the game works fine. I have to say that first of all Amazon is incorrectly listing this game as compatible with Windows 7, so beware, and second of all it is not acceptable to release a game incompatible with Windows 7 8 months after it is released to the general public. Who do they think are buying these games with sophisticated graphics? Exclusively people with year-old machines? Unacceptable.I have asked Amazon for what their resolution to this matter will be. I expect them to refund customers even with open boxes. Although I got the game to work because I happen to have an older Vista machine, most won't, and the game simply doesn't work as advertised.EDIT: Just heard back from Amazon customer service - they are indeed refunding it even if the product was opened. Since I found a way to get the game to work, I probably will not be returning it, but good for Amazon for making it right.
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
By Wighthouse65
Best (and simplest) LEGO game yet and suitable for all ages.Excellent tech support (and you most likely will need it). Be sure your machine WELL EXCEEDS the basic hardware requirements required for the game to function properly. I would even recommend that it surpasses recommended hardware specs for a trouble-free gaming experience as this game makes some serious demands on your system if run with all options enabled.I had many issues and challenges with this game the first weeks after release but have since resolved all challenges I faced both with TT Games support and through personal trial and error. Now it's back to fun and am looking to complete it this weekend.Incidentally, I am running this on Windows 7 32-bit with 4 GB of RAM on an Intel Dual-Core 1.86 GHz machine. Just make sure that you have a VERY good video card with sufficient power to run this game. Some of the later levels are very graphics intensive and will bog your machine down to crash mode if you do not have sufficient resources.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
By Ken McKell
Playing LEGO Harry Potter for the PC has been an exercise in fun sprinkled with a few bouts of frustration.First off, the gameplay is just about flawless but I do have a nitpick or two:PROS: - If you can think of any character in the Harry Potter Universe, you can pretty much play as that character in the LEGO Game. My wife was especially excited when she realized she could play as a plasticised version of Robert Pattinson (He's SOOO DREAMY!! Could LEGO Twilight be next?!). - One of the bonus extras that shows up early in the game prevents characters from constantly falling to their doom, which was a *huge* problem with previous games. Sure, it's a 3D game, but it's also on a 2D screen and thus the lack of depth perception makes the location of some objects difficult to figure out in relation to other objects. Perhaps this isn't an issue if you have a 3D screen? - While playing with two players, the screen "splits" in order to allow individuals to explore without needing their companion to tag along. It's a weird effect that does take some time to get used to, but it makes 2-player multitasking so much easier and much more fun. - The idea of having the characters use the Wingardium Leviosa spell to build objects is genius and extremely fun to watch. - Like the other LEGO games, the surprises, creativity, and slightly dark humor put into the game are just a joy to behold. It must be a lot of fun working for Traveler's Tales! - Music from the scores for the first four films -- including Patrick Doyle's -- is a nice touch. - The game is huge! My wife and I are spending a lot more time getting to the 100% level than other LEGO games.CONS:- NOT having Wingardium Leviosa as the default spell when beginning a level is silly. The "joke" spells are fun but since they add nothing to the gameplay, they shouldn't be the default spells.- A few scenarios require you to use Wingardium Leviosa to stack LEGO bricks (instead of automatically build) in order to reach certain objects. Trying to stack bricks is nothing short of frustrating and has NO fun factor.Now, a lot of complaints have been brought against the PC version of this game but I think a lot of it's overblown, IMO. I have Windows 7 32 bit and haven't encountered any situations where I couldn't get past a certain level -- my wife and I are just about at the 100% level. And in terms of stability, I haven't found anything that makes me throw my hands up and give up. Nevertheless, it's not perfect like it has been with past LEGO games.PROS of PC Version:- The resolution/video settings can be as high as you want and you can still get a fantastic framerate. Of course, you're limited by your hardware, but most PC sold these days should handle this game easily.- The PC version is $10 cheaper than the console versions (right?).CONS:- 2-Player Free mode is a mess. The game *does* randomly crash for no reason that my wife and I can figure out. Luckily, we are given a "warning" when the game is about to crash - the audio pops in and out - and thus we're able to save our game before catastrophe strikes.- With the Logitech Rumblepad 2 controller in 2-player mode, one of the controllers will drop out unexpectedly in multiple locations throughout the game. This is a serious enough problem that it warrants a reprimand against the QA dept. I'm not sure if it's specific to the Rumblepad 2 and/or if it affects the XBox 360 Controller for PC, but it really is aggravating.- I have *never* successfully been able to close out the game without getting a "Crash" notice in Windows 7.So, in essence, when the game works, it's fantastic and comes highly recommended; I just wish that it would work 100% of the time. I guess if you're willing to go with lower resolution/graphics quality but with more stability, then go with one of the console versions. If you're willing to take a chance on the PC version, by all means do so as I still was able to do everything I wanted with it in the end.
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