VideoGames : LEGO Creator: Harry Potter
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from: LEGO Media International
Amazon Maximum Age: 12 years
Amazon Minimum Age: 72 months
Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Lego Media
EAN: 0063338012831
ESRB Age Rating: Everyone
Format: CD-ROM
Label: LEGO Media International
Manufacturer: LEGO Media International
Model: 2201283
Publisher: LEGO Media International
Release Date: October 26, 2001
Sales Rank: 16915
Studio: LEGO Media International
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com Review:
Combining one of childhood's most enduring toys with the current craze for Harry Potter, this game has a capacity for entertaining young players that is almost magical. LEGO Creator: Harry Potter lets you use standard LEGO blocks to construct a world for Harry, Ron, and Hermione. Then you get to turn them loose in it! Whether setting up a postal route for Harry's owl, practicing 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, which usually run players through a fixed set of activities or educational challenges. Instead, game 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 onscreen 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, and find lost animals, and as they do, they learn the lay of the land. The challenges have another motivator built in: without them, you can't 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 J.K. Rowling's novels. What happens next is limited only by your imagination. --Alyx Dellamonica
Amazon.com Product Description:
The third title in the LEGO Creator series takes kids into the magical world of Harry Potter and his friends. LEGO Creator: Harry Potter lets kids construct and play with 3-D interiors in a virtual LEGO world where they can re-create the mystical environments from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
In addition to the range of classic LEGO bricks, kids can play with all-new features taken right from LEGO's Harry Potter line of toys. Design and build train tracks for Hogwarts Express to follow, or build furniture from LEGO bricks for the various rooms of a virtual Hogwarts Castle. LEGO Creator: Harry Potter also features a new 3-D character designer that allows kids to build their own mini-figure pupils. Then, click on the virtual Sorting Hat to place them in the appropriate houses of Hogwarts. How Hogwarts' pupils interact with each other will depend on what house they are from. For example, a virtual Slytherin mini-figure may react differently to a Gryffindor pupil than they do to a Ravenclaw student.
There are 12 optional challenges that add to the interactive play, including the option to download new LEGO bricks and virtual models from LEGO.com. The game also gives players the ability to create building instructions, so that they can build their own virtual models using real LEGO bricks.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - how come it has to be run by Administrator?
I run Windows2000 Professional, and take advantage of the multiple user capabilities. The kids have a separate log-in for the usual reasons.
The readme for this game advises to run this game as administrator. Not just install it but run it as a user with admin privileges. This seems like bad design to me. I'd rather know whether a software title has such limitations before I buy it.
Rating:  - Boring and no point in playing it
This game is a little pointless and boring. All you do is watch lego Harry Potter people walk around, bump into things for hours, say "ah" and bow. This is not an adventure game. Sure, you can build stuff for the lego guys to walk into, but then what? Watch them all crowd around to get in it and then get stuck? Boring.
There is a bug: the challenge movies freeze and won't work and the computer feaks out. :(
The best thing(and funniest)thing that happened on this game was when my brother ... Read More
Rating: - HIDEOUS GAME for a Great Theme
This product has two solid names behind it -- Lego and Harry Potter, and it SHOULD be a GREAT game.
In fact, this is a game released on schedule, but before being finished. Its controls are contra-intuitive, clumsy, and v-e-r-y s-l-o-w. It locks up and freezes, some times coming back and executing your mouse click up to a minute after you've thought it didn't take, and have moved on. When it's running, it's sensitve and twitchy. Those who have said the controls are bad or frustrating ... Read More
Rating: - Beware...Don't Buy It !!
Beware...This product is defintely not worth the money. The package claims you can build rooms, make students interact, add special features to the castle, and lay down tracks for the Hogwarts Express.
1. Building the rooms is tedious, frusterating, and time consuming
2. Students and Teachers do not interact...they simply jump around
3. You can only add certain feautures to certain areas
4. The Challenges you can do to gain spells are boring and not well planned out.
Difinitley ... Read More
Rating:  - The first year
The first year of Harry Potter has come and gone. But it doesn't have to be over. With Harry Potter Lego Creator you can build your way through hogwart's school of witchcraft and wizardry. You can have fun with ron hermoine and harry potter have fun
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