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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!

User Reviews about LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4

My kids and I are huge fans of the Wii Lego games. Overall, I felt the game-playing was equal to Indiana Jones and easier than Star Wars. Searching Hogwarts for the red boxes, gold bricks and missing characters was a bit more challenging, but loads of fun. The mini-movies were funny and overall the graphics were incredible.

However...this game has more glitches in it than the Indy and Star Wars games combined. That's what it felt like, anyway. We felt a MAJOR DISAPPOINTMENT with the end of the game--probably the biggest glitch imaginable: not being able to re-enter Hogwarts once you unlock Voldemort. Here's what happened:

My daughter and I still needed to search for 2 red boxes and roughly 5 more characters. They are hidden on the Hogwarts grounds, which is a lot of area to cover. We decided we would searching the missing items after we assembled the gold bricks. We found all the gold bricks and proceeded to Knockturn Alley where we assembled the bricks into a portal. The mistake was entering the portal and playing the Bonus Round. We unlocked Voldemort, bought him, played the game again in Free Play mode and proceded to the Leaky Cauldron where we tried to re-enter the Hogwarts grounds. Unfortunatley, we kept getting kicked to Knockturn Alley. After spending many hours playing the game, not being able to reenter Hogwarts was terribly frustrating, especially since we discovered that one of the boxes we needed had something to do with a Christmas theme.

Overall, the game was fun, but I'm not sure it's worth the disappointment we suffered at the end. I researched this glitch online to see if there was a way around it. I could find no solution from other gamers other than not unlocking Voldemort. -- Fun, but GLITCH-FILLED

This is my third Lego game on the Wii. I also have Lego Star Wars and Lego Indiana Jones. I have spent more time playing this one over and over. I actually never finished Indiana Jones because I did not enjoy it as much as Star Wars. This one really captured my interest so much I have gone from beginning to end several times. That said, I have run into some glitches where I got stuck in spots that make me manually shut down my Wii but the fun of the game outweighs it. You just learn not to go into those spots.

If you know the books but not the movies, you might find some of it confusing because it relies more on the movie story lines than the books. They have made a few changes to make it more kid-friendly but I don't think those were necessary. I still have had a lot of fun playing it.



-- lots of fun with a few glitches

We have a PS3 and Wii. My 5 year old loves the Lego Games, so I have a hours of "daddy can you help me" experience with Lego Star Wars, Indiana Jones 1 (&2), and Batman (all for the PS3). We got Harry Potter for the expecting that the "Wii wand" would fit well with a the concept.

The Good: my son loves it and has little/no problem with using the Wii controls to navigate.

The Bad: the graphics are notably lacking. I am no graphics snob, by any means, but they are very, very poor compared to PS3. Some may say of course they are and, yes, we expected some degradation. But if I had to choose again, I would not choose the Wii version (and I much prefer Wii for my son, over PS3, generally). Also, there seems to be little use of the Wii wand as a "wand" in the game. I'm not sure why I expected that one would wave the wand around as if it were a real one, but, thus far (about 1-2hrs in) there is none of that. That would be cool though right, so maybe I am missing how to do it, or some vital "option" to turn on - if so, then the Wii version has only the single glaring graphics issues.

The Summary: the game play is very fun. The game itself is great. My son loves it and doesn't notice any of the "bad" I listed above. Just be forewarned: if you get this for the Wii, it does not look crisp, smooth, or flashy, by any means whatsoever (enough so that I bothered to write a review). -- Wii Version: Fine Play, lacks heavily in graphics

The game has great lego graffics. Just as good as Lego Star Wars and Lego Indiana Jones. If your younger kids are Harry Potter fans, this game is great. My 7 year loves it and can play for hours. Even my 11 year likes to play it with him. -- Harry Potter Lego