Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

"Oh Harry Potter why did they have to disgrace you like this"

Ok here we go. I went to the local rental place (Buster's) and was looking for Yu_Gi_Oh forbidden memories. I can't find it so you know I didn't want to waste my trip so since I was into Harry Potter alot then I saw the new Chamber of Secrets and Decided to try it out. I go home expecting to become apart of my personal favorite Harry Potter book and end up asking this very simple question....WHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Storyline(1): What in the name of. Ok if you haven't read the second book DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME. First off it always seems to change to story around. It always skips past important things. Now there are the mini-games. None of this happens in the book. Denoming, the Treasure/Pipe mini game with the Troll. None of it. If your a Harry Potter fan I recommend you stay with the book and the movie and skip this one all together.

Sound(0): *Ugh Just having to remember those horrible voices UGH. Ok Harry sounded horrible. Everytime I heard him go ''Flippendo'' or the worst'' Winguardian Leviosa.'' I want to scream and rib out my hair from my head. Hermione was so gosh darn annoying. And the people in game talked like the new they were in a game. I swear if I have to hear any more noise pollution from that game I will break the source of its noise.

Graphics(0): Ok How could you guys do this to J.K. Rowling. I mean after all the time she's put in these books. She's done so much for so many kids by making these books. And the people who make the Harry Potter movies find just the right looking characters. All the trouble they go through and this is how you repay them. HORRIBLE. I mean the way the characters looked in gameplay was all choppy and crap. I mean come on this is suppose to be a new playstation game and your acting like its as old as 1994. And when its showing the book scenes where it shows pictures of the charcters in cut-scene format. ITS EVEN WORSE. I mean Ginny was so cute on the show. Now in the game she's horid. Her neck is like the size of a cigaritte, and her head the size of a huge beachball. The characters weather in cut-scene or gameplay were choppy, plain, and downright horid.

Gameplay(8): Well I will admit the gameplay was the only glass of water in this firey dry hell. Spells were fun to cast. The duels. I mean the duels were just so fun. I mean I could have done them all day. Too bad the game didn't have more of that in it. Oh well the duels is easily masked away by the bad features.

Overall(2): Well it was pretty bad. Yep an insult to the books, and the movie. The only thing going to the game was the spells and the duels. But of course the sound of Harry's voice when he cast a spell easily ruin the whole spell casting experience. So the only reason I'm giving it a 2 is for the duels and the spells (the few where I didn't hear Harry's disgraced voice.)

Buy or Rent: RENT. I mean if you one of the few who likes games like this go ahead and buy. I'm warning you though, best to rent this, if you buy without playing it your taking a big risk in having a game that you payed 30$ for sitting by your playstation taking up space and collecting dust. For most people who do not take my warning that will be the case.

Reviewer's Score: 2/10, Originally Posted: 01/15/03, Updated 01/15/03