Build the adventure from Privet Drive to the Triwizard Tournament and experience the magic of the first four Harry Potter stories – LEGO style! Explore Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, learn spells, brew potions and relive the adventures like never before with tongue-in-cheek humor and creative customization that is unique to LEGO videogames!
LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 brings the action, adventure and fun of the first 4 stories in the Harry Potter catalog to the video game screen in the way only the LEGO franchise can. Featuring all your favorite characters and story environments, LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 lets players play as the wizard of their choice, combining them piece by piece as is only possible in the LEGO franchise of games. Play options include single player story mode, free-play and two-player co-op.
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Relive adventures 1-4 LEGO style.
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Relive the Adventures
Connect the bricks from Privet Drive to the Triwizard Tournament and experience the magic of the first four Harry Potter stories, LEGO style in LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4. Explore Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, learn spells, brew potions, and relive the adventures like never before with tongue-in-cheek humor and creative customization that is unique to LEGO video games.
Key Game Features
- Explore Interactive Environments – Explore iconic settings from the wizarding world including Hogwarts castle, Diagon Alley, the Forbidden Forest and the village of Hogsmeade. LEGO Hogwarts castle is a grand, immersive 3-D environment and the largest, most detailed LEGO game location ever built.
- Your Favorite Characters – Play as Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger as well as other favorite characters with over 100 possible options.
- Be a Wizard – Attend lessons, cast spells, mix potions, fly on broomsticks, and complete tasks to earn points.
- Co-op Multiplayer – Conjure up fun with a friend and play through Harry’s first four years at Hogwarts as a team with the co-op play option.
- Be Who You Want to Be – Be who you want to be anytime with character swapping and free-play abilities.
- LEGO Gameplay Experience – Experience your favorite Harry Potter moments through the proven prism of the LEGO video game franchise.
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Favorite characters & settings.
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LEGO video game play.
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Surprising new challenges.
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Soar with Mr. Potter.
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- Experience your favorite Harry Potter moments through the proven prism of the LEGO video game franchise.
- Explore iconic settings including Hogwarts castle, Diagon Alley, the Forbidden Forest and the village of Hogsmeade. LEGO Hogwarts castle is a grand, immersive 3-D environment and the largest, most detailed LEGO game location ever built.
- Play as Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger as well as other favorite characters with over 100 possible options.
- Attend lessons, cast spells, mix potions, fly on broomsticks, and complete tasks to earn points.
List Price: $ 29.99
Price: $ 24.49
Loved it, one massive glitch, found a fix for it, wanted to share.,
As with many people, I found this game to be wonderful, magical, fun, clever, and satisfying. And I am a grownup. Go figure. I have enjoyed the other Lego games and thanks to the dedication to the source material, this game really clicked with me.
But since I have little to say that hasn’t already been said by many other glowing reviews, I wanted to offer something that might be helpful to other gamers, a tip that I myself was unable to find on the forums and therefore wanted to share the fix. I am sure I am not the only person who ran into this particular glitch, so here it is.
I am sandbox play person, someone who loves to systematically explore everything before moving on to another level, and when I began running through Hogwarts during the first level or two, I smashed and charmed everything I could find and somehow managed to enter a courtyard I may not have been expected to enter at that stage of the game. This didn’t cause any problems until after I left Snape’s potion lab and discovered that every time I followed the ghost’s directions to get outside to what would eventually be the greenhouse area, the game would freeze up when I entered the aforementioned courtyard. EVERY time.
I tried cleaning the disk, and even tried another disk of the game, and it froze every time and broke my heart. I searched forums and while many glitches were reported and even a few suggestions, I found no description of that particular glitch, and wondered if there was something wrong with my Wii, such as limited memory or something.
This is what I stumbled upon: I erased the saved game and started fresh, which was a bit tedious considering you don’t get to skip the animation sequences. This time around, instead of running amuck and exploring everything, I followed the ghosts’ directions and went where the game wanted me to go. Needless to say, the levels played very quickly, but suddenly I found myself past the freezing glitch and into many more levels. After I had completed those levels, I copied the saved game file to my SD card for safekeeping, as I knew that save was a good one, and could go back into the game and free play and explore to my heart’s content. And if I find another freeze glitch, I can copy the saved game file from the SD card back onto the Wii itself and continue from that point.
Bottom line: the game design somehow made it so that you might inadvertently get ahead of the game’s intentions by exploring too much, and if that happens, the game gets confused when it finds you had already done something it wasn’t expecting you to have done yet, and it freezes. The best way to avoid this is to go where the game tells you to, THEN free play later and explore.
Yes, this was very frustrating for me to figure out, and certainly could have been avoidable by the game designers. However, the overall pleasure I got from the game compensates for the issue, and I won’t really hold it against anyone, at least not now that I solved what turned out to be the biggest unintentional puzzle of the game for me.
Hope this helps any of you who may run into the same problem! Now go enjoy this delightful game!
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|spectacular improvement,
We have had this in our house for a week, and I must say that there are many features in this that improve over the earlier LEGO games by this company. My son (11) and daughter (15), whom I have watched with his friends rather than played myself (on a new flatscreen TV, which admittedly adds to their excitement), are utterly mesmerized by the world and narrative that they are able to enter with this game.
When I bought it (in Europe at about 1/3 more in price), I was worried that it would only be a simple variation on the earlier LEGO video games. To summarize, the earlier games (Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Batman, all of which we have in more than one format) allow children to become part of the story. They know the films, but are able to interact in the environment and create their own versions. These are not games with an adversary to beat or at least compete against, but a collaborative journey where you try to get through a number of obstacles, more similar to a maze than, say, monopoly. This is a wonderful variation for kids, who too often seek enemies in video games or someone to conquer. In the LEGO tradition, there is also a building motif, where you collect enough parts to get to a kind of construction critical mass, so you win a level and objects are assembled and a film episode is played with LEGO characters. It has action, but is not bloodily violent, so good for little kids. Finally, it is easy to start over and keep going on a journey through the films. Just this makes these unique game concepts, but you can only get so many. There is absolutely wonderful detail and characters in a simplified LEGO version that is charming, though they don’t talk.
While this is definitely in continuity with the earlier games and so reassuringly familiar as all great brands should be, I was happily impressed with this version, which I think is a quantum improvement. The environment is more complex and multi-facetted, with all of the HPotter universe to explore. The levels and tasks they have to perform are more complex than the earlier games, so it is longer lasting, and there appears to me to be more character in the powers and personalities of each figure that my kids can choose to play. There is absolutely nothing that seems derivative about this. For example, instead of hitting, whipping, or cutting with a light saber, they can cast spells that are far more varied in their effects. As a school, there are also lessons to learn at each stage, which adds a new dimension that relates to the narrative. In addition, my kids love the split screen feature – it allows them to go to more places and there are things they can do in each place that help their “mission”.
Warmly recommended. This is a wonderful addition to an evolving medium.
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