Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is the sequel to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone for PC and Mac. As its prequel, five different versions of this game were released for different gaming platforms…

8 November 2002

What Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is an adventure game developed by KnowWonder and released in 2002. It was published by Aspyr Media. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 1.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The plot follows Harry's second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, during which a series of messages on the walls of the school's corridors warn that the Chamber of Secrets has been opened and that the heir of Slytherin would kill all pupils who do not come from all-magical families.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Harry Potter series

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is the 14th of 75 entries we hold in the Harry Potter series. The next entry was Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets in 2002.

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What it launched against

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets launched on 8 November 2002, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Metroid Prime, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell and Metroid Fusion.

Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Metroid Prime, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell, Metroid Fusion.

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