Amazon Maximum Age: 20 years Amazon Minimum Age: 60 months Binding: CD-ROM Brand: Aspyr EAN: 0618870101309 ESRB Age Rating: Everyone Format: CD-ROM Label: Aspyr Media Manufacturer: Aspyr Media Platform: Macintosh Publisher: Aspyr Media Release Date: February 28, 2002 Sales Rank: 11156 Studio: Aspyr Media
Features:
Play the role of Harry Potter
Sneak, climb, and jump as you explore 3-D environments
Product Description: Have you seen the movie? Play the PC game too! As Harry Potter, you'll master all things magical in a world filled with wizardry, fun, and danger. Plus, attend lessons, cast spells, and much more!
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
Average Rating:
Rating: - Could have been better
I thought this was a fun game, but it definitely wasn't perfect. The graphics were weird, but kind of cool. It is annoying how you can't skip through when people are talking, and how Peeves looks like a clown. But the worst part of the game is the Quidditch. It take forever to win! Other then those little defects, the game is fun to play, even if there wasn't really all that much to it.
Rating: - THIS GAME STINKS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank god i didn't buy this piece of junk, i borrowed it from a friend! The whole thing is completely different from the actual plot! Flipendo doesn't even exist in the real books, and it's basically all you can use. Half of the stuff in this game probably didn't even cross Rowling's mind! heres a list of pros and cons, (or rather all cons)
Pros. the quidditch was the only thing i enjoyed about this game
Cons. poor graphics mouths don't move when they talk no actual spells from book
hard to get coins from gringotts,(this took me about 100000 tries so easy to defeat quirrel, devils snare, etc. peeves looks like a circus clown easy to get lost in the school dumbledore looks like a pig if you die, people talk all over again
in other word, I HATED IT!!
Rating: - Fun game...but those dang blackouts!!!
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. :(
Rating: - Decent All-Around Game
I won't go into details, because there are a lot of details to this game, but overall I think it is pretty good. The graphics are good, the gameplay is decent, and the storyline is pretty advanced. Two things that I really enjoyed are the combination of fighting/rivalries and puzzles, and the thrill of flying. There are many flying levels in this game, and all of them are very fun. Also, this game is not composed ALL of fighting/rivalries or ALL of puzzle-solving. The combination is excellent. Two things I really didn't like are Quidditch and twisting the plot from the book. Even though the storyline is very good, the plot twists a little too much from the book. Maybe I don't like the unexpected, but it seems to me that it strayed a little bit much. Also, Quidditch is very weak, even though I like the flying. The gameplay is too easy, and it seems that the only way to lose is to fall off your broom, which is easily avoidable. Overall, I recommend the game to those who like surprises and a combination of strategy and a little combat.
OVERVIEW
Pros: -Mixing of Rivalries/Fighting and Puzzles -Good Gameplay -Flying Levels
Cons: -Quidditch -Strays too far from Book -Easy Spell System
Rating: - Awesome game for beginning and novice gamers!
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 ...
- Could have been better
- THIS GAME STINKS!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Fun game...but those dang blackouts!!!
- Awesome game for beginning and novice gamers!
