Return To Hogwarts
Last updated: 10/10/2006 - 09:30
Take the wheel of a flying car and don't be late for a second term at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets!
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
He's back, and it's about term...
Dare you return to Hogwarts? Transport yourself into an interactive adventure of wizards and wonder and take the role of J.K. Rowling's boy wizard, Harry Potter.
Harry returns to the PlayStation in the highly anticipated sequel - to the game of Warner Bros. Pictures Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone - to explore new interactive environments in an action/adventure quest to win the House Cup.
Players attend new classes to learn second-year spells that will aid them in a quest to uncover the true identity of the "Heir of Slytherin" and protect Hogwarts from the evil force within the dread Chamber of Secrets.
New Challenges
When completing coursework in Potions, Transfiguration and Herbology, players get a taste of life as Hogwarts most famous student, while learning the important spells and potion recipes necessary for succeeding in the deadly chamber itself.
Based on J.K. Rowling's second book in the worldwide best-selling series, players face a magical multitude of new challenges and mysteries as the famous 'Boy Who Lived' on seven game platforms: PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, Xbox, PC, Game Boy Advance, PlayStation and Game Boy Color.
Ignoring Dobby the house-elf's grave warning that disaster will strike if he returns to Hogwarts, Harry embarks on his second year to find Dobby's predictions coming true! Harry soon finds himself entangled in a dark plot against his "Mudblood" classmates, as students keep turning up petrified!
The heir of Slytherin
Could Draco Malfoy be to blame, or is something even more malevolent at work? With the help of returning friends Hermione, Ron, Hagrid and Hedwig, players attend new classes to learn second-year spells that will aid them in a quest to uncover the true identity of the mysterious "Heir of Slytherin".
Additionally, players can - of course - cast spells against foes, but these spells must be perfectly executed, or they could be miscast with humorous or critical consequences!
Mini-games within levels can be revisited, so players can help Mrs. Weasley with "de-gnoming" her garden, challenge other students in Professor Lockhart's Dueling Club, or complete other mini-game asides to the main adventure again and again.
On the PlayStation2, Xbox, GameCube, and PC, players enter a series of fantastical free-roaming 3D environments from Harry's world.
Players can converse with unique characters from the books and films – such as Moaning Myrtle - and explore the convoluted corridors of Hogwarts. As they go along, players make crucial and independent decisions within Harry's world.
Game Features
This is a faithful representation of the magical world created in J.K. Rowling's best-selling novels and is probably set to win a few new fans for Harry among gaming die-hards, and a few new gamers from the Potter mad public. A winner.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is out now for PS2, Xbox, GameCube, and PC
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