Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1667 in Software
• Brand: Focus Multimedia Ltd
• Released on: 2003-09-04
• Rating: To Be Announced
• Platforms: Windows NT, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows XP

Amazon.co.uk Review
Combining one of childhood's most enduring toys with the current craze for Harry Potter, LEGO Creator Harry Potter has a magical capacity for entertaining young players. Use standard LEGO blocks to construct a world for Harry, Ron and Hermione then turn them loose in it. Whether setting up a postal route for Harry's owl, practising spells with the kids of Hogwarts or using the workshop to configure the LEGO buildings and structures, players will find this game thoroughly absorbing.

LEGO Creator Harry Potter is atypical of children's programs that usually run players through a fixed set of activities or educational challenges. Instead, the designers have made a serious effort to leave things wide open and flexible, sticking close to the reason why kids enjoy LEGO in the first place. Players can place LEGO units--animals, characters, blocks, doors, chests--around the landscape of Hogwarts. But this is no mere simulation of a real-life play experience--this LEGO world is animated! With a single mouse click, players bring their creations to life. Place a LEGO snake on-screen in this game and it will promptly slither for cover. Likewise, the Harry Potter characters--who are incredibly charming when rendered as standard LEGO people--will move around the environment created for them, even interacting when they come together.

While the complexity of this package makes it tougher to master than many games, a series of tutorials disguised as challenges can smooth out the learning curve. Users explore the school, build LEGO trains, find lost animals and as they do, they learn the lay of the land. The challenges have another motivator built in--without them, you cannot cast all the magical spells otherwise available to Harry and the others.

LEGO Creator Harry Potter frees you to build a stage and place upon it the well-known characters from the JK Rowling novels. What happens next is limited only by your imagination. --Alyx Dellamonica

Manufacturer's Description
The third title in the best-selling LEGO Creator series takes you into the world of Harry Potter! Create and play in an all-new environment, with enhanced and updated features. Meet your favourite characters, visit your favourite locations - the only limit is your imagination. Add a little magic to your PC!

Customer Reviews

Not too sure about this game
I'm not too sure that this game is worth the effort it takes to work it all out. It does tend to lag alot and does not like any computer with a high range of coulors. My younger sister is the one who pandered for this game and ended up being very dissapointed when it did not work as well as she hoped. However, once the game does work it adds a new spin to the world of Harry Potter and alows fans to use there own imaginations to create their own view of Harry's world. Great for lego fans who are used to the format of the lego games.