The Lego game idea has spanned three popular franchises in the past: Star Wars, Indiana Jones and Batman. Now a fourth has been added to the list in the form of the Boy Who Lived. Jk Rowling's creation, Harry Potter, has been given the miniature plastic block treatment, and the consequent is a game that is fun, fresh and highly addictive.
The Lego games have always been fun, thanks to their exquisite recreation of the field matter on which they are based, as well as the irreverent attitude they take to that field matter. But, aside from characters and settings, there absolutely hasn't been much of a unlikeness between them. We've been to Tatooine and the Amazon with these games, but the total dynamic hasn't changed much in any of the old versions. You can read that another way, of course... The game-play was getting old.
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It seems that developers Travellers Tales were well aware of the problem, because Lego Harry Potter: Years 1 - 4 brings a very dissimilar feel with it. Sure, it's still a Lego game, and the basic theory are the same, but additions and tweaks to these ideas have made a weighty unlikeness to the total feel that it offers.
The safe bet change is that the game has a dissimilar setting. Now the player will be able to discover a Lego version of Hogwarts, which is a sprawling environment that allows the player a lot of freedom. The magic school has been recreated from the films, and events that play out in the game are based on the movies, rather than the books (hardly surprising when you consider that the game is published by Warner Bros, the same enterprise that did the films). There is a lot to do in Hogwarts, from collecting studs (which is base to all the games, and serves as currency in this title) through to convention Hogwarts crests and more. The free roaming that the game allows implies (as do the myriad items that suggest interactions later on) that the player will be revisiting areas time and again to entrance things they couldn't get to before. This is a astounding concept, but it also adds a bit of trudging to the game.
The player will be able to make use of 167 unlockable characters through the policy of the game, and will be able to learn new spells and abilities as they go through the varied chapters in the game. That's where going back to redo things comes in. Take, for example, polyjuice potion. Studying to use this potion will allow the player to change characters at conveniently located cauldrons. Need to get through a door that will only allow Hufflepuff house students access? No problem... Naturally use polyjuice to assume the form of a Hufflepuff character. The catch is that you may come across such a door in the first chapter, but you'll only learn the skill in the second. I am sure you see what I am getting at.
It's great fun, and the use of dissimilar magic spells allows the player to interact with the world of a Lego game like never before. Wingardium Leviosa, for example, will enable the player to construct private Lego blocks to solve puzzles. Previously, construction was kind of automated, and while there still is automatic construction this time around, the puzzles add a new dimension to the game.
The game also features a drop-in / drop-out multiplayer, which is brilliantly handled this time around. Players can play through all four chapters together (which cover The Philosopher's Stone, The chamber of Secrets, The Prisoner of Azkaban and The Goblet of Fire) thanks to an intuitive split screen implementation that only splits the screen when necessary. This is one of the best implementations of split screen we have ever seen.
The game doesn't feature too many boss battles, and car sections are mercifully kept to a minimum (because they were nasty in other Lego titles). On the whole, the game is a beautifully presented, fairly forgiving title that shines above a few of the old Lego games. It's great fun for the whole family, and well worth playing, gift tons to do and lots of humour for those well-known with the Harry Potter stories.
At A Glance
A great adventure for the whole family, based on the Harry Potter universe.
Developer: Traveller's Tales
Publisher: Warner Bros
Distributor: Nu Metro
Platform:
Pc
Ps3
Xbox 360
Wii
Psp
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