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Summary: Great game for wizards of all ages!
Comment: Its so much fun you won't be able to put it down! I know I felt that way when I first rented Harry Potter and the Prisinor of Azkaban! Its a game that is challenging enough that you don't breeze through it in one sitting! Its great...though a little complicated at first...may be a little too dark for younger kids.
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Summary: Great Graphics !Simple game
Comment: I own all 3 of the Harry Potter games for Playstation 2.This game has better graphics than its other 2 predacessors,but the story is lacking.There are a few things about this game that can be annoying.First No matter which character you are using the other two will be in your way,Every few seconds they are telling you that you need to go somewhere or do something.Reminding is one thing but this is very annoying,even to the point that sometimes I had to turn the volume down just to search around.In my opinion this game is a lot easier than the other 2 because when you need to collect ingredients there is a beam of light shining from wherever it is.Collecting beans is not as big a deal as it was in the other 2 because Fred and Georges shop only has a few items(a card,dungbombs,healing potion and that's about it!maybe they should just close down.)Finding lost items from the notice board is also way easier.Wherever it says it was last seen that is where it will be(instead of getting wizard cards for returning these you now get house points)and collecting cards increases indurance.This game seems to revolve more around problem solving than fighting enemies.So you will have to move blocks in a certain way to open doors or whatever.It only took me about 8 hours total to complete this game so you may want to rent this first.
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Summary: AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
Comment: All I Have To say is that this game is terrible, it's not a good game to buy you child this holiday season, it is very graphic, take it from me, a child who asked for this gift for my Birthday, (It was the worst Birthday ever!) I tried it and it Sucked!
Customer Rating:
Summary: This game is a bad bad game.....and it sucks anyway
Comment: is definitly not the game to buy oyur childeren this coming holiday sesaon. and it just plain sucks
Customer Rating:
Summary: A Challenging, Fun & Well-Integrated Game
Comment: I recently played through the PS2 version of "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" for PS2. I very much enjoyed playing through the game's various challenges, but because so much of the actual story is edited out of the game (usually only shown in short animations), the game goes far more quickly than its predecessor, "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets". The best aspect of the game (which was not part of either of its predecessors) is that you play all three of the primary characters: Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. Each character starts the game with the same two spells (Flipendo and Expelliarmus, which were part of the previous game), but as the game progresses, each character obtains his/her own unique spells/abilities that in previous games only Harry had:
Ron's Unique Spells/Abilities:
1. Lumos Duo Spell (light producing spell)
2. Finds hidden passages
3. Can search bookcases for Jellybeans, dung bombs & potions
Hermione's Unique Spells/Abilities:
1. Glacius Spell (freezes water, extinguishes fires)
2. Reparo Spell (repairs broken objects)
3. Draconifors Spell (causes dragon statues to come to life, usually spitting fire)
4. Snuffifors Spell (turns books into mice)
5. Can crawl through tight spaces
Harry's Unique Spells/Abilities:
1. Carpe Retractum Spell (pulls objects or can pull Harry himself towards something)
2. Expecto Patronum Spell (wards off dementors)
3. Has the Marauder's Map
All but one of the spells are obtained through unusual challenges. One spell is obtained by purchasing it from Fred and George's joke shop for a certain number of jellybeans. Like the previous game, trunks with various items are hidden throughout Hogwarts that contain either spell book pages, collector wizard & witches cards or chocolate frogs. In the previous "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" game, obtaining collector cards was just for fun and had no real impact on the game's outcome. However, in this game, the collector's cards do impact the game; so collecting them is a very good idea as you will see. A variety of sometimes-menacing creatures wander through Hogwarts and its grounds. Some of these creatures are very important for obtaining potion class ingredients (another better-integrated aspect of the game). One creature in particular will be used quite often: Buckbeak the hippogryph. Any character can fly on Buckbeak and using him is sometimes mandatory for obtaining much-needed things. One important thing to remember is that since you are required to play all three characters, they must occasionally work together to overcome particular challenges.
One thing that will surely be missed by many players familiar with the previous games is that in the "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" game, you never get to play quidditch. This I found to be rather surprising, but it is possible that there simply was not enough room on the disk to support playing it with everything else that the game offers. Similarly, several scenes that could have been played are instead reduced to animations making the game far more edited than its predecessor. There are, however, several encounters with Drako and his minions, Crab and Doyle, that are entertaining, as well as side-challenges that can be fun. For me, Hermione was the interesting character since she obtains the most abilities throughout the game, but it's up to Harry and his Expecto Patronus spell to save the day.
Overall, I rate the PS2 version of "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" with 4 out of 5 stars. Certainly the game could have been better. In some aspects, it is more challenging than its predecessor; but in other aspects, its predecessor was more challenging. Still, it is very entertaining and fun to play. I look forward to the game version of "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", to which, the ghost of Peeves warns that he will be a menace.
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