Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4 is easily the best Harry Potter game to date, though if that sounds like a backhanded compliment, consider this: It's one of the finest Lego adventures to date as well, which is no faint praise. By minimizing the repetitive combat and inconsistent platforming, Traveller's Tales has also minimized the frustrations, making this excursion to Hogwarts enjoyable for the whole family. Read more
Love him or hate him, Harry Potter- not to mention- Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, are here to stay. Short of the recent Twilight for tweens phenomenon, Harry Potter has to be up there with Lord of the Rings for this generation of young people, successfully marrying book and film. The Lego games are inevitably for a younger audience, the original readers of the books now 10 years older. Read more
The game has oodles of charm however, so it won’t feel like a chore for long - TT Games have done an excellent job melding the fun and cute Lego universe with the Harry Potter universe. Professor Quirrell’s head spins around to reveal Voldemort’s face painted on the back, instead of putting a lock of hair in Polyjuice potion you put the hair piece of Lego in the cauldron and there are heaps of other clever rewards for fans of Lego and the Harry Potter series. Read more