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Bloody Hell

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

[...] It so how amazing how well they made quidditch a video game. Each team has it's special abilility (like griffindor has the wealsy wangler). They have all the teams including bulgaria except Ireland [...]. you play the hogwarts cup and the world cup until you win. You can also play 2-player. Best game ever. Hriday Kemburu

Game for anyone!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: December 18, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If you like a racing game or a high speed game this is for you. I don't actually think anyone will dilike this game because it is the best game ever!!!! I love playing this game every day trying to unloclk quiditch cards, stadiums, brooms, and teams. I think you should buy this game (...). Some matches can go from 5 minutes to an hour, because it depends how fast you git the snitch meter up. You also can do special moves such as the Wronski Feint and Wealsy Wangler. You should ask for this game or your parents should get it for your birthday or something. Hk

Best game I probaly own

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: December 17, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is probably the best game I ever bought. Even though I got the game two years (2005) after it came out(2003) I never get bored of playing it. You can choose difficulty levels by the type of broom. Comet 260-begginer, Nimbus 2000- a little harder, Nimbus 2001- hard, Firebolt-Expert. You also get to play in the Hogwarts cup and the quiditch world cup. Which is ver cool! I don't know why they didn't include ireland in the game but it is still good. At the begginging you have to do a 6 challenges and than you can start playing. You can also play in Exibition mode (2 player mode) Which is hard and fun if you are playing against someone who is just as good as you. P.S. I bought the game and didn.t open it yet but researched it and played it at my friends houses so much I know all this. P.S.S It is very cheap right now.

Where do I start?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 9 / 11
Date: March 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Okay, if you know the basics of Quidditch, I don't need to explain. To the review:
Graphics:
Definetly the game's strongest point. The players, the stadiums, everything looks beautiful. I love playing in the Japanese Quidditch stadium, because there's a big pond with a cool little bridge that just looks wicked. The little movies are fun to watch because everything looks fantastic.
Sound:
Also a strong point, but it really starts getting repetitive when you play your 5th match. Still, it at least sounds pretty acurate.
Gamplay:
THIS is the game's weakest point. For one, it's just way too easy to swamp the other team 360 points to nothing. When you're playing for the World Cup, it can get kinda boring.
Also, the idea of Quidditch seems too simplified. You can't fly wherever you wish, you don't have any vertical control...
It's still pretty fun, and you can get really wraped up in the game and forget it has anyting to do with 'harry potter' but it's almost just a kid game, which kinda ruins it.
The 2-Player match can help this, because if you play with someone who's just as good as you, then it gets real challenging and real fun.
So, it's all right for a kid's game, but rent it before you buy it.

they need to make another game with some improvements

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: December 08, 2004
Author: Amazon User

GREAT GAME!!!
Needs more teams; the ability to play with linked gamecube/ps2/xbox so you can play with 14 players (each player controls one person.);
more than needs the real names of all the players; it should be more like ea sports games for injuries, stats, and substitutions; there should be a franchise mode and the ability to sign players coming from Hogwarts or other schools; there should also be a professional league containing chudley cannons, puddlemere united, etc.;

wonderful

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: August 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is a brilliant game featuring harry and others playing Quidditch.
If you win the world cup you can play in queerditch march where quidditch was first played.
Lively game with great commentating in the world cup from Ludo Bagman and his special guest.
There are special moves for every team.

Innovative gameplay, beautiful graphics.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: June 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

As a fan of the books, I was determined to try to keep an unbiased view of the game before I played it, and I was pleasantly surprised at how unnecessary that was.

I was worried how the gameplay would work; it seemed impossible to program a fair computer Seeker, and since the difference between Chasers and Beaters were so big (Beaters don't even touch the ball) I was baffled as to how they'd keep a game with such separate elements cohesive and fair.

The game revolves primarily around the chasers, with the gameplay having the feel of a 3 on 3 hockey game. With features like "combos" you can even do what would be the equivalent of a slapshot. The shooting and passing are pretty intuitive.

What's very interesting is that you're rewarded for the complexity of your gameplay. "Combos" (kind of a long chain of assists), normal goals, and other touches you add to your style of play affect the "snitch" bar, which is how much boost your seeker gets. The way it works is, once two halves of the snitch bar meet, the game goes into "seeker" mode, which is a race between the two seekers to get the snitch. This race is affected by aforementioned boost, and some kind of snitch "slipstream" which makes you go faster. So, just like in "real" Quidditch, a deficit of 140 points can change with the catch of the snitch, but because of the way the game is designed, it's harder to catch the snitch if the other team has scored better or has more goals than you to begin with.

I was disappointed that you can't play as Ireland, which is one of the major teams in the book. Why this is, I have no idea. You can play as the one of the four houses at Hogwarts to win the house cup, and then win tickets to "attend" the World Cup, where you choose a World Cup team and play as them. The World cup mode is pretty exhausting, however, as it's 18 games long. What is also pretty cool is that your points are cumulative, so if you completely demolish one team (I beat Australia 400 to 0) it affects your rankings, and conversely, if you only lose by a little (say, 160 to 130), you don't go down in ranking as badly if you had been completely shut out.

There are some hangups with the game: the celebratory cut scenes and seeker catches have the same animations for each team, so after awhile you'll get tired of them. So far, I haven't found a way to change players, which is silly, but this oddly doesn't matter as much in the long run, as it changes them automatically based on ball proximity.

The graphics are great, the stadiums incredible, and you'll find yourself wishing you could watch a couple rounds of Quidditch on ESPN.

Also, I'd like to note that on this Amazon page, a lot of people gave favorable reviews then gave no stars. If you're interested in buying it I'd recommend it, but if the fact that it has a low ranking is bothering you, go through the reviews and see for yourself that the ranking should be higher.

It was sick wicked

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: June 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I thought this game was absoloutly sweet when i first played it at the pub we went to so i really wanted to get it but now i'm going to get the new harry potter game. but if i had a choice of getting another game i would get this one because i loved it. if your thinking of buying it your making a good choice so do bye from Reade Norman in Australia.

REALLY FUN,

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: May 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Yes, an extremely fun game. I enjoy this game very much! The graphics, especially if you have an updated video card and with the Directx 10 I beleive it is called that comes with the game, the graphics are just superb! Almost realistic with the jet streams and smooth cornering. The graphics in some areas however do tend to look "cut together" in areas, but nothing is perfect.

However, the game does get harder the more you play. I recently won the Quiditch World Cup playing the USA, I also was undefeated! BUT, the next contest level will start with the Nimbus 2000, then it will be NImbus 2001 and finally the hardest the Firebolt level! I'll admit I struggle with the ability to get the special moves down, so that is making playing the next levels practically impossible.

Now, if you want a very fun game play, this is it. But, I warn you, it gets harder and harder the further you go in.

PS: I'll give it 4 stars since it is that much of a fun game and for the graphics... totally cool graphics! However, it could use some more options -- like working with upper level brooms on Exhibition Mode, that would be nice.

Great Buy

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

In my opionion, Harry Potter Quidditch World Cup is a great game, and a great buy. You can play all 7 positions on the team. I never get tired of this game; there are many teams from the Hogwarts 4 houses to Bulgaria, England, the U.S, France and many more. Level difficulty is decided upon by which broomstick selected. You can also try to accomplish certain goals set, which unlock cool moves and special quidditch fields, etc., by getting the quidditch card. The graphics are great, as is the gameplay. I would suggest it for all ages, even smaller children or older folk. It's easy to learn and the difficulty is selected by you. I recently completed the game with Spain on the easiest setting. Now, I'm playing through with France on the next difficulty, which is quite a step up. It takes a long while to complete the game with one team; you must play each country twice or so, if I remember correctly, equaling about 32 games, take or add. Each country also has its own quidditch field, which actually is quite realistic to the real life countries feautured in the game. I do not believe this is a game you should rent before buying. I also don't believe this is a game non Harry Potter games should stay away from. Even if you don't like HP, I think you will love this game.

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