Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game)
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North American cover art
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| Publisher(s) | Electronic Arts |
| Distributor(s) | Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment |
| Series | Harry Potter |
| Engine | Unreal Engine (PC and Mac) |
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| Genre(s) | Action-adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
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| AllGame | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |    |
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| EGM | 8/10 | N/A | 7.33/10 | N/A | N/A | 7.5/10 | N/A |
| Game Informer | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 6/10 | N/A |
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N/A | N/A | |
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| GameSpot | 7/10 | N/A | 7.3/10 | N/A | N/A | 7.3/10 | 7.3/10 |
| GameSpy | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
N/A | N/A | N/A |
| GameZone | 7.2/10 | N/A | 8.8/10 | 7.5/10 | N/A | 9/10 | 8.8/10 |
| IGN | 7.8/10 | N/A | 8.9/10 | 8/10 | N/A | 8.4/10 | 8.7/10 |
| Nintendo Power | 4/5 | 3.6/5 | 4.4/5 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| OPM (US) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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N/A |
| OXM (US) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 7.5/10 |
| PC Gamer (US) | N/A | N/A | N/A | 75% | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Entertainment Weekly | N/A | N/A | B+ | N/A | N/A | B+ | B+ |
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| Metacritic | 76/100 | N/A | 77/100 | 77/100 | – | 71/100 | 77/100 |
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is an action-adventure video game published by Electronic Arts based on J.K. Rowling's novel Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and the film of the same name. It was developed by both EA's internal development team and Eurocom for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube and Game Boy Advance systems. It was simultaneously co-developed by Amaze Entertainment for Microsoft Windows, OS X and the Game Boy Color systems. An original version was also created for the PlayStation by Argonaut Games. This was also the last game released for the Game Boy Color in North America and the last Harry Potter game to be released on PlayStation.
The game's core gameplay is straight forward. Taking control of Harry, the player explores Hogwarts castle and grounds. Throughout the course of the game, the player will encounter events that tie into the storyline of the second book. Filling the gaps between these events are various classes, where the player will learn how to fly a broomstick and learn new spells for combating bosses, among other things. Each new spell is accompanied by a challenge, which the player must get through in a certain amount of time to complete that class period. During the later parts of the game, the player will face challenges which are not time-limited and are not related to learning spells. These challenges are all based on events from the book, for example, travelling into the Forbidden Forest and gathering ingredients for a potion Hermione is making.
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