

Spells to this game is what guns are to Call of Duty they’re intrinsic. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is a video game within the series that I hadn’t visited, but right off the bat when playing through the first scene, the game has you hurling dwarfs into the air, a spell that turns a washing machine violent and sentient, which you must battle! Finally, the immediate reference to chocolate frogs and jellybeans-all invoking a sense that I’m in for a fun and nostalgic ride from developers that know all too well what makes the Harry Potter universe what it is. I could honestly feel like how it was to be Harry Potter when sneaking into the restriction area or facing off against the fully-grown mountain troll in the girl’s bathroom to save Hermione. A stellar classic built from the ground up to tell the 1-to-1 story of its counterpart movie but in an interactive way with additional storylines on top.īeing immersed is what I remembered as a kid playing the Harry Potter games re-enacting movie scenes through gameplay gave more gravitas to the source material.

Movies capture the realities of 3D and to feel like I’m in Hogwarts, you need 3D graphics, physics and art design that are all authentic to the world-Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets on the PS2 was just that. Not where you steal the likeliness of characters and environments then throw them onto a 2D side scroller. When movies adapted into video games was done right.
