LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 Game Trailer

[Staff]

Traveler's Tales and Warner Bros. Interactive released a new trailer for their game, LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4. Ten bucks says it's the same tired gameplay of roaming, 1x1 rounds collecting, and character swapping/leading/getting stuck in corners to frustrate you to no end, and wand waving to build stuff to overcome obstacles.

Anyways, if you check out the promo website MagicIsBuilding.com, there's a countdown to a sneak peek of the game which has 8 hours 48 minutes left as of this writing. Hopefully, it won't be the trailer below.

Update 9:01am 12/8: The countdown reset itself at some point. Users who load up the page now get a countdown at about 24 hours or less. The browser page I had open, when the countdown hit the zero mark, it reset to negative 1 day, like it did for buriedbybricks.

Via The Brothers Brick
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[KarolRabalski]

[quote=staff]Traveler's Tales and Warner Bros. Interactive released a new trailer for their game, LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4. Ten bucks says it's the same tired gameplay of roaming, 1x1 rounds collecting, and character swapping/leading/getting stuck in corners to frustrate you to no end, and wand waving to build stuff to overcome obstacles.

[Mister Ed]

[quote=staff]
Anyways, if you check out the promo website MagicIsBuilding.com, there's a countdown to a sneak peek of the game which has 8 hours 48 minutes left as of this writing.

[CaptainPike]

TLG don't even have any kits in production to tie-in with the games release, do they?

And yet many of their boxes say look for the Lego Racers/Space Police/City The Video Games - which do not exist.

A unique form of marketing to be sure.

[Bertramtalespinner]

You say same tired gameplay. I say familiar and enjoyable by our whole family. So it's a personal taste thing.

[Mister Ed]

Site appears to be up now. Though it takes forever to load.

In fact I can't load the VIP area at all, which is where I presume one goes to enter the code given in the new trailer. I left it loading for over half an hour, and no dice. Not even any errors, just sitting there spinning its wheels.

[Mister Ed]

OK, managed to get in to the VIP area. Not much there yet. House Crests you can download, a place for blog entries (of which there are none just yet) and a video with one of the developers talking about flying on broomsticks (there is a screen in the shot showing some examples, not much detail, but still, it looks cool to me.)