LEGO Harry Potter Years 5-7 (PS3)

I love Lego games. I love the retelling of the stories they are based on, the humour, the character designs and the problem solving gameplay.Harry Potter Years 5-7 brings nothing new in terms of gameplay and overall style, but you can't have too much of a good thing, right?Once again, the player has to navigate through six levels for each film, with challenges to learn spells and find extras in the Hogwarts 'hub.' Like the previous Harry Potter Lego, Hogwarts is a vast, sprawling location that can be difficult to navigate, but they've also made it different. No lazy programming of the same rooms - we can now explore London and the various campsite locations from the seventh film.There are a couple of new spells, and the way Harry and crew are stripped of the spells they gained in the previous instalment actually made sense, and didn't rely on the gamer suspending their disbelief as sequel characters show up at most basic level.Of course, nothing is particularly challenging. The puzzles usually involve blowing stuff up using the right spell and the rebuilding it using another. There's nothing that stretches you too hard, with even the new duelling system amounting to little more than pushing buttons at the right time.But that's not really the point of Lego games - they are meant to be entertainment. And entertaining it is, with stacks of the trademark humour, and glorious character design.Menu systems for buying spells and characters have been somewhat updated, I'm not convinced if it's successful, though it's massively less annoying than the 'find the character and fight them' system of Lego Pirates. Lots of characters and items seem to have been hiked up in price, though that's never really a problem in Lego games - as always I found I had no money at all, then suddenly several billion studs that I couldn't do anything with.Red Brick upgrades were in a more logical order, the ones you could get early on being cheaper and helpful for the progression of the game. I wish I'd spent more time exploring Hogwarts as I progressed through the game, but as is usually my tactic, I left it to the end, after I'd unlocked as much as I could playing through the levels on story mode. I don't think it really matters though - no matter how you approach Lego games, there's an inevitable amount of replay involved, as you go back through the levels to pick up things you couldn't access before with the characters you've now unlocked.Which is all a very roundabout way of saying that Harry Potter Years 5-7 is everything you should expect from a Lego game, with nothing particularly stunning or innovative. But, as the saying goes: if it ain't broke, don't fix it. And the Lego formula certainly isn't broke.

after hunting around for ages in different shops i decided to look on amazon for this game, and i was pleasantly surprised that it was so much cheaper than other shops and i would be getting it brand new. it was so much cheaper than new AND pre-owned ones from other shops so i really couldn't pass on the price for this and ordered it straight away,i was bought as a xmas present but ended up just letting him have it before as he was desperate for it after finishing the first one. it arrived the next day and true to the description, - brand new - still sealed - never used opend or re-packaged - so was very pleased with it when it arrived.the game itself is great quality and can be played for one or two players - yes i have had a shot at the game im not afraid to admit it and surprisingly i enjoyed it haha - theres plenty different levels and varies from hard to easy the wee one has asked me a few times to help on a few levels hes stuck on and i have found some of it hard but i suppose that's the aim of the game really.all in all i have been really pleased with everything, the price, the packaging and the description of the game when i bought it no fault on anything :) and ollies been glued to it not sure what im going to do when he finishes this one haha

As with all lego games, this is really fun to play for kids and adults - especially if you are a fan of the franchise. Loads of levels, characters and things to do.Be aware, as with other TT lego games, there are a few bugs in this game. Nothing too game ending (unlike lego LOTR), but sometimes a bit funny on some bits of Hogwart's and a couple of the levels.Overall - awesome.

I play coop play with my 7 year oldI've played computer games for years but actually this is one of the best I've seen. Although its linear it never seems to get boring. The main reasons for this are that in many cases solving a puzzle has a different animation, you need to investigate alot to solve everything and its funny (spells that make you bald etc).Some of the darker themes of Harry Potter are dealt with very well and its only slightly scary in places so IMHO is bang on age appropiate. For instance if a character dies then we are always reminded it is Lego we are playing with.After the story is completed you can then play 'free play' with different characters that you have unlocked. In the normal story mode it is not possible to unlock everything in a level. This adds another level of interest and problem solving to the game and IMO is a really nice feature.I play 18+ games as well but I have enjoyed the game so much I have occasionally played the game when my daughter is out of the house!Highly Recommended

A very good game. Gave it to my sister for her birthday and she adores it. It was a very fast postage from Amazon and came with no scraches on the disk. Gameplay was very cool and fun if you like lego and harry potter. The two ideas of lego and harry potter was well put together. And hours of fun if you 100% the game.

Daughter (8 years old) loves Lego Batman and Indiana Jones...think this might be a bit too much of the same though now - or perhaps she's just growing out of lego games. The spells and wands make for slightly different 'conflict' and problem solving but this also gets repetetive soon. She's much more taken with Skylanders game she had for christmas. Nice graphics and inter-play movies though - good humour as always.

This order came quickly not tried it out as it's a birthday pressie for my grand daughter on the 9th September but I'm sure she be morequired than happy with it thank you

Bought as Xmas present for grandson. Great for 5 year olds imagination and problem solving. My 68 year old husband has difficulty playing the game yet my grandson wizzes through it.

Llegó rápidamente y en perfecto estado

Gioco bene realizzato, che attraversa tutti i momenti importanti dei relativi film più piacevoli scene comiche inserite tra essi. A mio parere è risultato più divertente e appagante della versione non lego.Lo consiglio vivamente.

Perfecto y entretenido aunque hay partes complicadas de pasar para un niño de 5 años

Fantastico gioco,arrivato puntualissimo e in ottime condizioni. Mio figlio si sta divertendo tantissimo essendo appassionato del genere. Bella grafica,storia molto ben strutturata facile da capire

Come sempre consegna ottima e in tempo. Prodotto molto carino e ben fatto ...mio figlio di 5 anni ci si diverte un sacco