LEGO Harry Potter in May

By Robert Purchese Published 1 February, 2010

Slitherin to spring.

Warner Bros. has sent word that LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1 - 4 will arrive here in May.

Available for DS, PC, PS3, PSP, Wii and Xbox 360, the game takes players through Harry's first four adventures: The Philosopher's Stone, The Chamber of Secrets, The Prisoner of Azkaban and The Goblet of Fire.

Like Star Wars, Indiana Jones and Batman, Traveller's Tales will spin JK Rowling's world into an accessible co-op action game with liberal sprinkles of humour.

Check out our LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1 - 4 gallery for a new batch of screenshots from Year 2, The Chamber of Secrets - Branagh's best work since Hamlet.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

Read more articles from Robert by visiting the Robert Purchese archive page.

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  • Doctor_What #1 2 years ago

    That would probably work really well with the template they set up for Star Wars. It could be worth a go.

    The books deserve to have their terrible writing (see if you can count how often people's jaws drop open in amazement), and the acting in the films isn't too hot most of the time either (with the exception of Prisoner Of Azkaban, which somehow managed to be a genuinely good piece of cinema), so it would be nice to see that ridiculed but I doubt they would be allowed to do that.

    [edit for typo]
    Edited by 1 at 01/02/10 @ 12:05

  • brigadier #2 2 years ago

    This is quite strange for me. Me and the missus enjoy playing Lego Batman and Star Wars together and the other day while we were playing, we started discussing what we thought the next 'lego' game would be. I came up with the Simpsons (don't really know how that would work, but what the hey.) and she said she thought it might be Harry Potter!

    Needless to say I laughed at her, thought my idea was better and now i feel bad. I owe her a muffin to apologise. Just need her to get next weeks lottery numbers now...
    Edited by 1 at 01/02/10 @ 12:13

  • Penguinzoot #3 2 years ago

    The Chamber of Secrets - Branagh's best work since Hamlet.

    Hehehe ;)

  • jonsaan #4 2 years ago

    This may be great as there are some really strong characters outside of the main cast in HP. Something Lego Indy really missed.

  • hardtech #5 2 years ago

    I pretty much saw this coming, I used to love the books when I was younger and it just seems like it would fit a lego game like this.

  • muscleblade #6 2 years ago

    @brigadier

    You dont visit this or other gaming sites much do you. Lego Harry Potter has been announced a looong time ago. This is just the announcment of a releasedate.

  • OnlyMe #7 2 years ago

    I think my kids may like this.

    Also, I still think a LEGO Monkey Island is a good idea.

  • makeamazing #8 2 years ago

    My kids will force me to get this :) and I am sure they will love it. They didnt really get on with Lego Indy 2 though.

  • andywilkie35 #9 2 years ago

    Lego Star Wars was fookin' ace in co-op, will definitely get hold of this.

    When they've finished with this and Years 5-7, hopefully they'll make Lego Lord of the Rings!

  • Murton #10 2 years ago

    Ah Harry Potter, showing the world that you don't need have a great idea yourself, you can just steal someone else's and then tweak it a little around the edges until it looks like your own idea. Harry Potter is pretty much just a composite of Star Wars and Narnia. Watch the scene in the first one where Hagrid explains to Harry that he is a wizard and tells him about his parents and whatnot and then watch the scene in Star Wars where Obi Wan tells Luke about his father and the Jedi Order.

    As for a LEGO game, it'll probably work really well following the same formula as Star War Complete Saga or Batman. Indy doesn't have the same strength of cast as Jonsaan said. I'd still like to see a LEGO Lord of the Rings but I believe that EA holds exclusivity on games based on the movies, so unless they go whole hog the books we might not see a LEGO LOTR.

  • metalangel #11 2 years ago

    Seasoned gamers may recall Lego Harry Potter on the PC (and possibly others) back in 1999. It was total garbage.

  • spidermanalf #12 2 years ago

    I am looking forward to this. As I love the Lego games, just want to know what the next Lego game is! Would have liked Lego Spider-man (obviously) but Lego have lost that license, that is now Mega Blocks *spit*

  • Doctor_What #13 2 years ago

    @ Murton: Have a look at 'The Books Of Magic' by Neil Gaiman. It's about a council estate kid with a black mop of hair a thicj black-rimmed glasses who finds out he's a wizard and goes off to learn magic with fantastical creatures (and an owl). The character looks pretty much identical except for the scar.

    Then again, everything is a rip-off of something else...

    I actually quite enjoy Rowling's books for the stories and characters, but the writing is incredibly mundane. It's her claims of things like 'Harry came to me as a fully formed character' that really annoy me when she's so obviously been inspired by other texts.

  • Optimaximal #14 2 years ago

    Did anyone expect anything other than this when WB bought Travellers Tales?

  • WinterSnowblind #15 2 years ago

    @brigadier
    It's very unlikely Lego would ever associate themselves with something like the Simpsons, it's too mature. They dropped Batman hard as soon as the Dark Knight was released.. and the property itself needs to be in someway associated with Lego already. We've already had Star Wars, Harry Potter, Indiana Jones sets, etc, they aren't going to come out of nowhere and base it on something like Lord of the Rings (as much as they should!)

    Also, as others have said we've known a Harry Potter game was coming for some time.
    Just as we know the next one is Clone Wars :)

  • metalangel #16 2 years ago

    Batman was too mature, but Freddie Mercury and David Bowie in Lego Rock Band were fine? Pity the child who wants to learn more about Bowie after hearing his music...