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LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 | 
| From: Warner Bros
Category: Video Games
List Price: $49.99
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Rating:  59 reviews
Sales Rank: 87
Language: English (Unknown)
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Genre: adventure_games
ESRB: Everyone 10+
Media: Video Game
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Operating System: Nintendo Wii
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
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MPN: 1000110072
Model: 1000110072
UPC: 883929085835
EAN: 0883929085835
ASIN: B002BS4JLA
Publication Date: June 2010
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| Features:
| • | Experience your favorite Harry Potter moments through the proven prism of the LEGO video game franchise. | | • | Explore iconic settings including Hogwarts castle, Diagon Alley, the Forbidden Forest and the village of Hogsmeade. LEGO Hogwarts castle is a grand, immersive 3-D environment and the largest, most detailed LEGO game location ever built. | | • | Play as Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger as well as other favorite characters with over 100 possible options. | | • | Attend lessons, cast spells, mix potions, fly on broomsticks, and complete tasks to earn points. |
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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!
Amazon.com Product Description
LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 brings the action, adventure and fun of the first 4 stories in the Harry Potter catalog to the video game screen in the way only the LEGO franchise can. Featuring all your favorite characters and story environments, LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 lets players play as the wizard of their choice, combining them piece by piece as is only possible in the LEGO franchise of games. Play options include single player story mode, free-play and two-player co-op. Relive adventures 1-4 LEGO style.
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Connect the bricks from Privet Drive to the Triwizard Tournament and experience the magic of the first four Harry Potter stories, LEGO style in LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4. 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 video games. Key Game Features - Explore Interactive Environments - Explore iconic settings from the wizarding world including Hogwarts castle, Diagon Alley, the Forbidden Forest and the village of Hogsmeade. LEGO Hogwarts castle is a grand, immersive 3-D environment and the largest, most detailed LEGO game location ever built.
- Your Favorite Characters - Play as Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger as well as other favorite characters with over 100 possible options.
- Be a Wizard - Attend lessons, cast spells, mix potions, fly on broomsticks, and complete tasks to earn points.
- Co-op Multiplayer - Conjure up fun with a friend and play through Harry's first four years at Hogwarts as a team with the co-op play option.
- Be Who You Want to Be - Be who you want to be anytime with character swapping and free-play abilities.
- LEGO Gameplay Experience - Experience your favorite Harry Potter moments through the proven prism of the LEGO video game franchise.
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 59
Nine-year-old LOVES it September 4, 2010
C. G. King (Horse Country, VA USA)
My grandson is captivated by this game. He reports it's the best one he's ever played even though some of the puzzles are very hard for him and it takes him a while to solve them. He is tenacious though and eventually works them out. He has been recently enamored with Harry Potter after a marathon movie session during a vacation where it rained a lot. When I was in the store recently looking for a new computer keyboard, he strayed to the computer game section and returned with this.
I'm not happy with the price, which I think is high for this sort of thing, but I'm happy that he's so happy with the game and know the problem solving skills he's learning while playing it will be valuable to him for the rest of his life. He loves Legos and enjoys building parts of scenes from these games for direct play so the format here is appealing to him and he thinks the graphics are great.
After reading some other reviews about glitches, I specifically asked him if he noticed things that didn't work correctly, but he said he didn't, so perhaps that's a more adult perspective.
Bottom line, my nine-year-old couldn't be happier with the game and highly recommends it, so I do too. It's probably important to note that he's extremely bright and experienced with such games so the 10+ rating is accurate and I wouldn't necessarily recommend it for younger kids who might become frustrated.
 Fun, but GLITCH-FILLED September 2, 2010
CJ
My kids and I are huge fans of the Wii Lego games. Overall, I felt the game-playing was equal to Indiana Jones and easier than Star Wars. Searching Hogwarts for the red boxes, gold bricks and missing characters was a bit more challenging, but loads of fun. The mini-movies were funny and overall the graphics were incredible.
However...this game has more glitches in it than the Indy and Star Wars games combined. That's what it felt like, anyway. We felt a MAJOR DISAPPOINTMENT with the end of the game--probably the biggest glitch imaginable: not being able to re-enter Hogwarts once you unlock Voldemort. Here's what happened:
My daughter and I still needed to search for 2 red boxes and roughly 5 more characters. They are hidden on the Hogwarts grounds, which is a lot of area to cover. We decided we would searching the missing items after we assembled the gold bricks. We found all the gold bricks and proceeded to Knockturn Alley where we assembled the bricks into a portal. The mistake was entering the portal and playing the Bonus Round. We unlocked Voldemort, bought him, played the game again in Free Play mode and proceded to the Leaky Cauldron where we tried to re-enter the Hogwarts grounds. Unfortunatley, we kept getting kicked to Knockturn Alley. After spending many hours playing the game, not being able to reenter Hogwarts was terribly frustrating, especially since we discovered that one of the boxes we needed had something to do with a Christmas theme.
Overall, the game was fun, but I'm not sure it's worth the disappointment we suffered at the end. I researched this glitch online to see if there was a way around it. I could find no solution from other gamers other than not unlocking Voldemort.
 Fun but Too Buggy to Recommend August 31, 2010
mdaddy (Rochester, NY)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Our family has enjoyed all of the Lego games on Wii and being fans of the Harry Potter stories we were really looking forward to this game.
The gameplay is excellent and a nice improvement over what was becoming very formulaic in the Lego series. The adherence to the stories is admirable, the environments spot on and the bits of humor inserted are very welcome. All in all, the design, writing and gameplay are all excellent. The split screen carry over from Indy 2 was a really nice touch. It's too bad that the great work of all of those writers, designers and programmers was wasted.
This game was shipped long before it was ready. Travellers Tales apparently fired their QA dept. before this game shipped, or else they just didn't bother giving the game to them. We've had multiple instances of saved games being lost, characters stuck in endless loops requiring losing a level, freezes requiring reboots and some levels that become unplayable upon beginning them. You can't restart the level because they've been auto-saved at a bug.
I can picture the scene in a conference room: "The game isn't ready." "I don't care, we have to ship." "It's buggy." "I don't care, we have to ship."
Well, TT, I do care. I spent my $50 for something you knew was defective.
Fool me once, shame on you.
There won't be a second time. I will never purchase another title from your company.
lots of fun with a few glitches August 28, 2010
SBFH (Colorado, USA)
This is my third Lego game on the Wii. I also have Lego Star Wars and Lego Indiana Jones. I have spent more time playing this one over and over. I actually never finished Indiana Jones because I did not enjoy it as much as Star Wars. This one really captured my interest so much I have gone from beginning to end several times. That said, I have run into some glitches where I got stuck in spots that make me manually shut down my Wii but the fun of the game outweighs it. You just learn not to go into those spots.
If you know the books but not the movies, you might find some of it confusing because it relies more on the movie story lines than the books. They have made a few changes to make it more kid-friendly but I don't think those were necessary. I still have had a lot of fun playing it.
Wii Version: Fine Play, lacks heavily in graphics August 27, 2010
Ann Helms (USA)
We have a PS3 and Wii. My 5 year old loves the Lego Games, so I have a hours of "daddy can you help me" experience with Lego Star Wars, Indiana Jones 1 (&2), and Batman (all for the PS3). We got Harry Potter for the expecting that the "Wii wand" would fit well with a the concept.
The Good: my son loves it and has little/no problem with using the Wii controls to navigate.
The Bad: the graphics are notably lacking. I am no graphics snob, by any means, but they are very, very poor compared to PS3. Some may say of course they are and, yes, we expected some degradation. But if I had to choose again, I would not choose the Wii version (and I much prefer Wii for my son, over PS3, generally). Also, there seems to be little use of the Wii wand as a "wand" in the game. I'm not sure why I expected that one would wave the wand around as if it were a real one, but, thus far (about 1-2hrs in) there is none of that. That would be cool though right, so maybe I am missing how to do it, or some vital "option" to turn on - if so, then the Wii version has only the single glaring graphics issues.
The Summary: the game play is very fun. The game itself is great. My son loves it and doesn't notice any of the "bad" I listed above. Just be forewarned: if you get this for the Wii, it does not look crisp, smooth, or flashy, by any means whatsoever (enough so that I bothered to write a review).
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