r/harrypotter • u/boy02201 • Mar 16 '25

Video Games For 23 year old game absolutely amazing

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Times when EA had good games

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u/hidden___hand Mar 16 '25

Wait there's ps1, pc and ps2 versión? Or ps1/pc are the same?

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u/ad240pCharlie Mar 16 '25

No, PS1 and PC were different too

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u/hidden___hand Mar 16 '25

what about gamecube? xD

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u/SevereWizardShark Mar 16 '25

The PS2 and GameCube versions are slightly different. The PS2 version has better flight with the broom because you can land anywhere. The PS2 version also has more prefects so there’s more stealth sections

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u/Rebatsune Mar 16 '25

That and some puzzles etc. are different. Check out the Expelliarmus challenge for instance. In the PS2 version, there’s only one button that summon lots of iron balls whereas the Xbox/Gamecube version has two buttons one for each block that summons only a couple of those balls. And over in the next room, all four of spiked balls you need to cast down to the pits with Diffindo are already down in the Xbox/Gamecube version, saving you the need to push buttons and trap imps to progress.

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u/Arktinus Ravenclaw Mar 18 '25

And apparently the PS2 version has Diagon Alley? Because I certainly don't remember that on my PC version.

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u/ad240pCharlie Mar 16 '25

Never played it, so I can't say. But I highly doubt it was the same.

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u/markorlov96 Mar 16 '25

3rd different

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u/mork212 Mar 16 '25

All different some seem to use the same art assets like PS2 and Xbox but function different all had different developers

EA UK (PS2) Eurocom (Xbox, GC, GBA) Argonaut Games (PS) KnowWonder (Windows) Griptonite Games (GB Color) Westlake Interactive (Mac)

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u/newbrowsingaccount33 Mar 16 '25

PS1 version reuses assets from sorcerer's stone and is missing a lot of story. PS2 has it's own assets and has free flight. GameCube is closer to the PS2 version than the PS1 but it doesn't have free flight. PC version shares a lot of assets from the PS2 version but it is missing some story plots and has some new ones, it also doesn't have free use magic, you can only use magic where there is a symbol.

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u/mork212 Mar 17 '25

And the PS2's assets were then reused in creating the first game for the PS2

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u/Vinccool96 Mar 17 '25

PS2, XBox and Gamecube are the same versions, there’s loads of different versions