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ehhh....

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I kinda liked the early HP games, despite the bad graphics and the collecting madness. There was so much charm to be found in exploring Hogwarts. I agree with other reviewers that attending classes was one of the best parts.

This most recent HP game is all action. So boring! I am not a big fan of elaborate toolbars or RPG-esque equipping of characters. I am not a big fan of endlessly killing/destroying things to progress in the game. Thus, this game was a disappointment. I never finished it.

Graphics were nice, though.

a good HP game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

its a great game this one is. i have to admit, that i liked the others better, but they did a pretty good job with it. its fun, you use a lot of magic, but, its also probably the hardest HP game. i liked the other ones a lot because they allow you to run around the school aimlessly if you wanted.

one of the WORST parts about this game, is that ron will not SHUT UP! he is always winning about everything...

"Its so cold harry!", "im tired!", "Look! a bertie bott's every flavor bean! Wow!". it just goes on and on...

anyway, if you ignore all that :), its a pretty fun game. but i would definitely suggest the third game over this one.

It's ok

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: May 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is not my favorite of the Harry Potter games. It's so action oriented that it actually is very hard. It's great for people who like all action games, but I really feel it loses much of the story by being all action. And I miss tending classes. Part of the fun of the previous games was being able to go to school at Hogwarts and learning the magic. At least it was for me. I finished it, but I won't play it again.

woo nd bah

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

evrything was awsome!!!!!!! only thing was i liked having classes :( nd they didnt have that many at all.
very different than the other 3. seller highly reccomend though.

EA you got lazy on this one....

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Since Chamber of Secrets everything has gone down the tubes in this book-to-movie-to-game world.
There's nothing else to say, besides actually implementing the long-needed multiplayer, EA just got lazy with this game. I should have known they'd gone the lazy way when instead of a digital Harry, they just slapped Dan Radcliffe as Harry on the cover and unlike others I think getting closer to the movies is a BIG mistake for the game series. And they slap movie pictures all over this game (on the cards for example). And that isn't so bad, the games do exsist via the movies (not the books) or we'd be preparing for game 7 right now. Even still, the meat you really need for a good game is found in adapting from the books not the movies.

1st note to EA, in the next game BRING BACK THE ABLITY TO ROAM AROUND HOGWARTS. Without teachers and classes, you really aren't getting a Harry Potter at Hogwarts experience. And come on, your took away QUIDDITCH in PoA!! Did you have to take it away from Goblet too. There's a perfectly good Quidditch game at the beginning of the book that would have made good use of a digital Viktor. Hell, it would have made a nice little bonus side-game at the least.

2nd Note EA: Keep the multiplayer of GoF, the special ablities that were unique to the characters in PoA, and the castle & grounds roaming Legend of Zelda style of the previous games.

Final note for EA - forget the movies and read the books - it will give you LOADS more material to load into the game. Nothing against the movies, but the good thing about the game is it doesn't have movie-length restrictions. And I know people brag about the graphics in this game, and they are good, but one thing that is not good (and I'll actually say it again) is trying to look like the movie. Let the game be it's own creature. I actually found Harry and the gang more unique in the PoA game. There was a movie similarity without being the movie's slave. Steal some of the meat from the book and meat up these HP games instead of scaling them down. The movies have no choice, but the games DO.

One of the better PS2 games I've played!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I got this game and right away you get to start playing! OH WOW NO BORING TEXT TO READ!??!? That's correct! Not that I'm saying there's no talking which there is. It's durning the gameplay AND it's funny! How better can that be!? I play this game for a hours at a time that's much it rocks! I like the way you cast spells and it's really easy to use and remember. Though I did get confused when I couldn't use the Hebivicus spell but you learn that in Herbology. I love the fact that you can buy cards and make your character better. I also like that some things are easy some are challenging. Co-op is cool too. It reminds me of LOTR: The Return of the King's Co-Op. You really have to work together. Though sometimes it's annoying and funny because I play Co-op with my dad and he sometimes get's lost. Hahaha. This was also the only Harry Potter game that got my attention in the Harry Potter games. So I seriously suggest you get this game!!!

From a kids point of view

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: July 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

It was okay, i got this game for christmas after begging for it for like a month. then i got home (i was on vaction) and I started playing it right away. it was more advanced than the 2nd, and thats good, but I wasnt fond of the layout. Like you got there and there was the cup and you chose a challenge. I liked the 2nd because they didnt have this. In the second you wandered around hogwarts, did some cool challanges, class challenges, spell challenges, etc, and like once you were done you collected beans, fly, buy stuff, etc, and save the game whenever you feel like whereever. the 4th you cant save the game whenever and where ever, you cant just wonder around, you almost never go into hogwarts, you dont buy stuff, you collect beans to get cards in which help your stanima, etc. i mean the games fun, like the dragon rocks, but i like the 1st two better

A Fun, Challenging, Well-Integrated & Goal-Oriented Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 14 / 18
Date: April 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I have played each of the video games based upon the first four Harry Potter films & books. By far, the most challenging and best integrated of these games is "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire". The previous game of "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" introduced the ability for a player to play as any of the three main characters from Harry Potter: either as Harry, Ron or Hermione; which a player could actively switch between during game play (often, this was required within specific levels). This latest Harry Potter game also allows a player to play as one of the three main characters, but unlike the previous game, a player cannot actively switch between characters until the completion of a particular task.

As with previous Harry Potter games, spells must be obtained in order to get through certain levels or an important item, such as a Triwizard shield, may need to be collected. In fact, much of game play involves the collection of Triwizard shields that are hidden within most of the game's levels in order to unlock access to higher levels. Typically, there are multiple Triwizard shields on each level, which means that a player must revisit levels multiple times in order to collect a sufficient number of them. Also hidden within these levels are special items, such as vanishing cards, dragon statues, shovels or some other item that a player should either collect or reveal as sub-quests. Except for vanishing cards (for which there is only one per level), a player must identity all of a particular items on a particular level in order to gain a card that represents those items. And here's an important note on collecting/purchasing cards: unlike previous Harry Potter games where card collecting was merely a secondary activity that had no real impact on the players or game outcome itself, cards won or purchased throughout this game can load a player's character (that he/she has chosen before entering a level) with increased stamina, skill or magical strength from three selected cards. In fact, it is up to the player to load all three characters with a particular set of cards for the skills that the player wants each character to have because even though a player cannot switch between characters during game play, which ever character the player chooses is usually accompanied by the other two. One very interesting aspect of this game is that not all items on a particular level may be accessible until the player obtains something that is only attainable at a higher level that makes it possible to collect the needed item on the lower level. Most collectors' cards are only made available for purchase upon how well the player demonstrates certain abilities or achieves certain goals.

During game play, the player will encounter a number of nasty creatures, such as dugbogs, salamanders and vampyr mosps, which can be very annoying. Available jinx spells include (but are not limited to) orbis, inflatus and avifors. Charm spells include herbivicus, carpe retractum and accio to name a few. As stated, not all of these spells are available until obtained and sometimes require obtaining its spell book. Game levels include the Quidditch World Cup at the beginning, then proceed at Hogwarts with Defense Against the Dark Arts, the Hogwarts Exterior, Moody's Challenges, the Forbidden Forrest, the Prefects Bathroom, Herbology, the three Triwizard Challenges and Voldemort.

Overall, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" video game is very fun and I rate it with 5 out of 5 stars. It is by far the best Harry Potter video game to date.

Slightly addictive

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: March 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The graphics are much better in this game. That I think everyone appreciated. Also, the loading screens are much more pleasant to look at. A swirling pool of blue lights. It's really quite pretty.
The game is not really that difficult, although some of the tasks are a little daunting. I have finished the game without completing some of the various tasks in it. I have completed none of moody's challenges-I felt no need. And I found the dragon in a cage in the forbiddin forest, and did not feel like getting to the shield it guarded.
You can pick and choose your battles, skip what you do not wish to take on, and go back and get things you probably should have.
Granted, this won't be a game I will be playing much in a month, but it was definately worth the money I spent on it. :)
-Claire :)

Not as good as the movie...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: March 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

It was a weak start, it was good and enjoyable, but with their
earlier creation, Pirates: Legend of The Black Kat, Electronic
Arts, I mean, they brought us, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, b-
ut I found The Prisoner of Azkaban more intense, the narrator s-
ays the most, come on! this is Harry's second longest adventure!
we need a break from Narrator Land! It's got some pros though...

Pros:

Mad Eye Moody is just as familiar as in the fanastic movie.
The ascend to the key on a Hogwarts tower while rain was just as
cool!
The Enchanted Forest was cool and daunt!

Cons:

Cedric, Fleur, and Viktor need a bigger role.
Igor Karkaroff or Madame Maxime are not in the game!
They skipped HALF the parts and chapters of the book and movie!
The Pensieve and all.
No exploring Hogwarts ..
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The Electronic Games workers need to pay attention to the book
and movie before doing a game! 3/4 stars

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