LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
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| LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 | |
|---|---|
| LEGO Theme: | |
| Developer(s): |
Traveller's Tales |
| Publisher(s): |
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment |
| Date Released: |
June 29, 2010 (US) June 25, 2010 (UK) (PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, Nintendo DS) July 2, 2010 (Windows) July 30, 2010 (PSP) [1] |
| Mode(s): |
Single Player, Two player simultaneous |
| Rating: |
E 10+ |
| Platforms: |
Wii, Nintendo DS, Windows Vista, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Xbox 360 |
LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 is a video game based on the first four installments of the Harry Potter series in a LEGO form. The game was released on June 29 2010 in the US. It was released in the UK on June 25, 2010[1], and was developed by Traveller's Tales, the company that is responsible for most of the recent LEGO games.
The UK PSP game has been delayed to 30 July 2010.
Contents
Production
Revealed to the Public
The game was proven to be in the works by Traveler's Tales in 2009, when a Trailer was released at Nintendo's E3 conference. This trailer was one of the only sources of information about the game until another trailer was released, which actually involved gameplay and more characters including old characters like Professor McGonagall and Professor Quirrell "revived" with flesh skin. This was called a Year 1 vignette and more vignettes may come out as time goes by. Right now there are four vignettes, which are for Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, and Year 4.
Before the Year 3 vignette, the first 2 minutes of cutscenes which involved Harry arriving at number 4 Privet Drive and him gettting his letters to Hogwarts was released.
Tie in with the Sets
This game will obviously feature the minifigures from the Harry Potter sets. Before the game, sets of Harry Potter were released for the first four movies and one set came out to accompany the fifth movie. Since this game will feature the first four movies, all the sets already created could be implemented into the game, although if a game with all the movies implemented would not have source material for the the Deathly Hallows, as it hasn't even been released yet.
Revival of the Franchise
No sets were released for the theme since 2007, and only one set was released for the Order of the Phoenix. No sets have been created for the most recent movie, the Half-Blood Prince. This caused many people to believe the LEGO Harry Potter franchise was over. This video game is considered a revival of the Harry Potter franchise and more new sets will be released later in 2010.
Development and Distribution
The game is being developed by the well-known LEGO game developers, Traveller's Tales and TT Fusion for the handheld versions. Traveler's Tales was responsible for the development of all four LEGO Star Wars games, two LEGO Indiana Jones games, and the LEGO Batman game. If Traveler's Tales will use their usual format for the game, which is a free roaming hub, and a combination of beat-em up and puzzle gameplay, will appear is unknown, but very likely.
The game is being published and distributed by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment .
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, which now owns Traveler's Tales, will be partly responsible for the distribution and publishing. They have already published many LEGO games, including LEGO Batman: The Video Game, LEGO Battles, and LEGO Rock Band.
Gameplay
The gameplay is similar to LEGO Indiana Jones. In the first level, The Leaky Cauldron, Harry can't use magic yet because he doesn't have a wand but Hagrid can since he is an experienced wizard. All Harry is able to do is smash objects by rolling into them until he learns his first spell at Hogwarts.
The game uses the new split-screen introduced in LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues and is a co-op game, similar to all other Traveller's Tales LEGO video games. The new split-screen is a moving division on the screen in relation to where the characters are in the level. This makes finding your partner much easier than a stationary horizontal or vertical dividing line.
The Hogwarts castle from the game is notably the biggest LEGO video game environment ever created. There are many areas to explore, including the Great Hall, the covered bridge, Gryffindor and Slytherin common rooms, the courtyard, the quidditch field, Hagrid's hut, and more. Players can go to classes to learn new spells to advance to new areas in Hogwarts. An example would be if an area is covered by Mandrakes, the player might not be able to get to that place in Year 1, but after you have covered that Herbology lesson, you can get through there because you have learned how to get past them.
Potion-making is another vital gameplay feature. If there is a cauldron nearby you must collect the right ingredients to put in it. If you collect the right ones, you get a reward or advance in the level. If you get it wrong you could likely to be turned into a frog.
As with all schools, there are other students at Hogwarts who you can practice your defensive spells on. For instance, in the Gryffindor common room you might find a student sleeping on a couch. Zap the couch and the child is eaten up and then belched out. But you can't do this with just anyone. Zap Professor Snape and you might be turned into a frog again.
The moving pictures on the walls can usually be zapped to help you, and many other things in Hogwarts can be enlisted to help you as well, usually quite comically.
(Please note: There are 2 hubs instead of 1. They are: Hogwarts and Diagon Alley)
Versions
Price
The game has been released in eight different versions with eight different set numbers:
| Set number | Console | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 2855123 | Wii | US $49.99 / €49.99 / £39.99 |
| 2855124 | Nintendo DS | US $29.99 / €39.99 / £29.99 |
| 2855125 | Xbox 360 | US $49.99 / €49.99 / £44.99 |
| 2855127 | PlayStation 3 | US $49.99 / €49.99 / £44.99 |
| 2855128 | PC (Windows Vista) | US $29.99 / €29.99 / £24.99 |
| 2855129 | PlayStation Portable | US $29.99 |
Console versions
Naturally, the console versions of the game have sold quite well due to the number of LEGO and Harry Potter fans, so the number of copies are very high and popular.
Windows version
Not as popular as the console versions, the PC port of the game is sometimes reported to have a few bugs reducing the speed and graphics, or even crash. The player might even be unable to run the program. Mainly due to this, the PC port of LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 was abandoned by players as problematic, and as a result, the number of copies for Windows is very low.
Portable versions
The portable versions of the game are not as good as the console versions, due to LEGO games on the DS having poor graphics and a few bugs, like the Windows version.
List of Characters
*indicates the character is playable
The trio
- Harry Potter* (Muggle Clothes, Hogwarts, Quidditch, Triwizard, Yule Ball Tuxedo (Only on Consoles and Windows versions), Pajamas (Only on Consoles and Windows versions), Girl Disguise (Only on Consoles and Windows versions), Slytherin Disguise (polyjuice potion and only on Consoles and Windows versions), Egg Task (Triwizard Task 1 and only on Consoles and Windows), Swim Task (Triwizard Task 2), and Maze Task (Triwizard Task 3 and can use the Invisibility Cloak)
- Hermione Granger* (Muggle Clothes, Hogwarts, Yule Ball Dress (Only on Consoles and Windows versions), and as a Cat polyjuice potion and only on Consoles and Windows version and she can control Crookshanks from year 3 to year 4)
- Ron Weasley* (Muggle Clothes, Hogwarts, Pajamas(Only on Consoles and Windows version), Yule Ball Tuxedo (Only on Consoles and Windows verisons), Girl Disguise (Only on Consoles and Windows versions), and Slytherin Disguise (polyjuice potion and only on Consoles and Windows versions and can control Scabbers from year 1 to year 3)
Hogwarts Staff
- Professor Dumbledore* (Red/Grey Robes)
- Professor McGonagall* (Cat Animagus)
- Professor Snape*
- Professor Flitwick*
- Professor Sprout*
- Rubeus Hagrid*
- Madam Hooch*
- Professor Quirrell* (Voldemort)
- Professor Lockhart* (Green Robes)
- Professor Lupin* (Can transform into a Werewolf)
- Professor Moody*
- Professor Vector*
- Professor Sinistra*
- Professor Trelawney*
- Professor Binns*
- Unidentified Female Professor
Other staff
- Argus Filch* (can control Mrs. Norris)
- Madam Pince*
- Madam Pomfrey*
- Sorting Hat
Students
- Gryffindor house
- Neville Longbottom* (Hogwarts, and pajamas)
- Seamus Finnigan*
- Dean Thomas*
- Parvati Patil* (Hogwarts and Yule Ball dress)
- Percy Weasley* (Muggle and Prefect clothes)
- Ginny Weasley* (Muggle and Hogwarts)
- Fred Weasley* (Muggle clothes, Hogwarts, and Quidditch)
- George Weasley* (Muggle clothes, Hogwarts, and Quidditch)
- Oliver Wood*
- Katie Bell*
- Angelina Johnson*
- Alicia Spinnet*
- Lee Jordan*
- Colin Creevey*
- Gryffindor Boy*
- Gryffindor Girl*
- Gryffindor Prefect*
- Slytherin house
- Draco Malfoy* (Muggle clothes, Quidditch, and Hogwarts)
- Vincent Crabbe* (Muggle clothes and Hogwarts)
- Gregory Goyle* (Muggle clothes and Hogwarts)
- Millicent Bulstrode*
- Marcus Flint*
- Slytherin boy*
- Slytherin girl*
- Slytherin prefect*
- Ravenclaw house
- Padma Patil* (Hogwarts and Yule Ball dress)
- Cho Chang*
- Penelope Clearwater*
- Ravenclaw boy*
- Ravenclaw girl*
- Ravenclaw prefect*
- Hufflepuff house
- Cedric Diggory* (Muggle clothes, Hogwarts, Egg Task(Triwizard Task 1 and only on Consoles and Windows), Swim Task(Triwizard Task 2) and Maze Task(Triwizard Task 3)
- Justin Finch-Fletchley*
- Susan Bones*
- Ernie Macmillan*
- Hannah Abbott*
- Hufflepuff boy*
- Hufflepuff girl*
- Hufflepuff prefect*
Order of the Phoenix
- Sirius Black* (can transform into his animagus dog form)
- Arthur Weasley*
- Molly Weasley*
Lord Voldemort, his Death Eaters and followers
- Lord Voldemort* (Available in Quirrell version and final form)
- Tom Riddle* (16 year old Hogwarts student)
- Lucius Malfoy*
- Peter Pettigrew* (can transform into his animagus rat form, Scabbers)
- Walden Macnair*
- Barty Crouch Jr.*
- Death Eater*
Ministry of Magic
Diagon Alley and Leaky Cauldron
Hogsmeade
Knight Bus
Hogwarts Express
Other
- Rita Skeeter*
- Dragon keeper*
- Witch* (Available in white and grey)
- Wizard* (Available in red and green)
- Shifty wizard*
- Boy*
- Girl*
Beauxbatons
- Fleur Delacour* (Available in Beauxbatons uniform, First Task uniform, Second Task uniform and Third Task uniform)
- Gabrielle Delacour*
- Madam Maxime
- Beauxbatons student
Durmstrang
- Viktor Krum* (Available in Durmstrang uniform, First Task uniform, Shark form and Third Task uniform)
- Professor Karkaroff*
- Durmstrang Student*
Ghosts
- Moaning Myrtle* (Available in Hogwarts uniform and swimsuit)
- Nearly Headless Nick*
- The Grey Lady*
- Fat Friar*
- Bloody Baron*
- James Potter*
- Lily Evans*
- Professor Binns*
Muggles
- Vernon Dursley*
- Petunia Dursley*
- Dudley Dursley*
- Marjorie Dursley
- Mr. Mason*
- Mrs. Mason*
- Milkman*
- Station guard*
- Guitarist*
- Drummer*
- Bassist*
- Vocalist*
Creatures
- Fang*
- Dobby*
- Griphook*
- Hedwig (She sends red bricks to Diagon Alley)
- Mrs. Norris* (Only playable with Argus Filch)
- Fawkes
- Firenze
- Mountain Troll (As a final boss)
- Security troll (They protect some Hogwarts entrances during the third year. They can use expansive waves when someone throws a spell to them)
- Boggart (As an enemy. It turns into a dementor, McGonagall giving a bad grade, a spider, Snape, a moon, Voldemort and Harry Potter)
- Whomping Willow (As a final boss)
- Dementor (As enemies and as a final boss)
- Hungarian Horntail
- Swedish Short-Snout
- Chinese Fireball
- Common Welsh Green
- Salazar Slytherin's Basilisk (As a final boss)
- Acromantula (As an enemy)
- Crookshanks* (Only playable with Hermione when the third year starts)
- Norbert
- Buckbeak* (Only playable in some missions)
- Cornish Pixie (As an enemy)
- Bowtruckle (They help building wooden ladders in the Forbidden Forest)
- Mandrake (Can be taken by a wizard with earhelders to crash crystals)
- Trevor* (Only playable with Neville Longbottom)
- Giant Squid (Its tentacles are seen during the Second Task and in the Chamber of Secrets)
- Scabbers* (Only playable with Ron Weasley and can be transformed from Pettigrew's animagus ability)
- Aragog (As a final boss)
- Werewolf* (Only available with Remus Lupin's transformation ability)
- Devil's Snare (As an enemy)
- Gargoyle
- Goblin
- Gnome
- Sphinx (As a statue in the Third Task)
- Grindylow (As an enemy in the Second Task)
- Merpeople (As enemies in the Second Task)
List of places
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and WizardryClassrooms
Common rooms
Other places
Hogwarts Grounds
Hogsmeade
Other magical places
Muggle places
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Vehicles
- Flying Ford Anglia
- Light-blue flying scooter
- Broomsticks
- Firebolt
- Knight Bus
- The Dursley Car
List of known spells
Taught spells
- Reducto
- Lumos
- Lumos Solem
- Wingardium Leviosa (can be upgraded by purchasing Accio)
- Incendio (DS version only)
- Immobulus
- Reparo (DS version only)
- Aresto Momentum (DS version only)
- Expecto Patronum
- Expelliarmus
- Riddikulus
- Transfiguration spell
Spells bought in Diagon Alley
- Flipendo
- Rictusempra
- Stupefy
- Locomotor Mortis
- Glacius
- Slugulus Eructo
- Multicorfors
- Entomorphis
- Tarantallegra
- Redactum Skullus
- Colovaria
- Calvorio
- Anteoculatia
- Herbifors
- Incarcerous
- Trip Jinx
- Engorgio Skullus
- Accio
Dark spells
- Avada Kedavra
- Crucio
Lego.com Description
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Experience the magic of Harry Potter's first 4 years at Hogwarts™ School of Witchcraft and Wizardry!
Experience the magic of Harry Potter's first 4 years at Hogwarts™ School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in an exciting new way! LEGO® Harry Potter™: Years 1-4 combines the first 4 Harry Potter books and films in an interactive fun-filled videogame. Build the adventure from Privet Drive to the Triwizard Tournament through new LEGO gameplay elements like magical building and spell-casting. Select from over 100 playable characters including Harry Potter, Ron Weasley™ and Hermione Granger™. Experience the wonder of Hogwarts: attend lessons, interact with the professors, mix potions, fly on broomsticks, and complete tasks to collect LEGO studs as you relive the adventures like never before with tongue-in-cheek humor and creative customization that is unique to LEGO videogames.
- Attend lessons, cast spells, mix potions, fly on broomsticks and complete tasks to collect LEGO studs.
- Play as Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger™ as well as other favorite characters; over 100 playable characters.
- Explore iconic settings from the wizarding world including Diagon Alley™, the Forbidden Forest, Hogsmeade and, of course, Hogwarts Castle.
- LEGO Hogwarts is a grand, immersive 3D environment and the largest, most detailed LEGO game location ever built.
- Conjure up fun with a friend and play through Harry's first 4 years at Hogwarts as a team with easy drop-in/drop-out co-op play.
- ESRB Rating: E10+ with Animated Blood and Mild Cartoon Violence
Gallery
Stills
- LEGO Harry Potter.jpg
Harry Potter
- LEGO Ron Weasly.jpg
Ron Weasley
- LEGO Hagrid.jpg
Rubeus Hagrid
- LEGO Albus Dumbledore.jpg
Albus Dumbledore
- Dobby.jpg
Dobby
Locations
- LEGO Hogwarts.jpg
Hogwarts School Of Witchcraft and Wizardry
- Lego2 Gryffindor Tower.jpg
Gryffindor Tower
Year 1
- LEGO Excited Harry.jpg
Harry Gets a Letter
- LEGO Confusion.jpg
Confused Harry at Platform 9¾
- LEGO Feast.jpg
The Feast
- LEGO Broomstick Lessons.jpg
Harry, Ron, and Neville on Flying Lessons.
- LEGO Troll.jpg
The Mountain Troll
Year 2
The whomping willow crushing the Flying Ford Anglia
Year 3
Sirius as a dog on a roundabout
The Whomping Willow
Videos
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