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Ripp Off - complete and utter ripp off!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 11 / 14
Date: November 17, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Do not take any notice of the people who say this game is good, as it is a total ripp off and i can honsetly say the game has completely changed to the last 3 games with no exploration around hogwarts, it feels like you are skimming the pages of the book and not that feeling off being in the game, it has taken me one day to complete this game and the ending took 3 minutes to conquer so i have sold my game as it is not worth having in my collection, i feel EA rushed this game and i cannot believe they changed it as this is not at all like the 3 previous games, total ripp off EA!!!! i just hope my voting on EA.COM has made a difference and gets EA to remake the goblet of fire!!!!!!!! a very dissapointed customer.

P.S Also if anyone wants a true review of this game try gamespot.com or .co.uk and read the reviews you'll understand what i mean if you have not bought this game already.

The most awful game-sequel ever

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: November 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I agree with the second reviewer - if you liked the other Harry Potter games, this latest one is sure to disappoint. However, unlike another reviewer, I won't be so callous as to completely spoil a book's surprise ending.

One of the more disappointing features of this new game is the inability to see more than a few feet in front of you. That is, whereas in the other game you had control of the camera with the joystick you didn't use to run (by the way, Harry cannot duck or jump in this game either); in other games you used the joystick to look up, down and all around the town! When Harry ran through the game, you saw where he was going because the view was from behind. Here, the view is aerial and you have no idea what's ahead.

The card system is indeed confusing and the booklet doesn't explain much. I miss roaming around the entire school, entering into the classrooms, running through Diagon Alley and looking for secret items. You can't go roaming anymore, you must follow an prearranged order. The Bertie Botts Beans you uncover for points now fly away from you, and you must chase them down if you want points. If I had the chance to offer an opinion to the game designers, I would say "do over".

I thought that Harry Potter was supposed to be fun.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 25
Date: November 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

One of the very exciting features of this game are the big cauldrons. You can lift them by using magic, and smash statues, walls, fountains and much more! (Wow, the rush of adrenaline!)
But I discovered a very cool minigame: take up the cauldrons and smash them to your companions. It's fun, man, better than the minigames by EA.

No seriously, don't waste your money on this one. Harry Potter deserves better.

sad-sad game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: December 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game was a BIG disappointment. You have limited views and can't change spells except at the start of a level. Harry and the gang also walk around on thier own which means they are constantly getting 'hurt'. You collect beans, but for the most part really can't buy anything, and you can't trade anything. In fact you don't see Hogwarts, Profs or students for that matter. What's the fun in taking those things out. Flying and swiming is a joke. You basicly go up and down and that's it. You can't explore much less go out of a tunnel like zone. That's what was so fun about the first and thrid Harry Potter Game, were you could explore and acually view little areas. The first three games were also long playing and had problem solving, they were not all button hitting like Goblet of Fire. I got this for Christmas and was looking forward to a long fun game -- instead I got a lump of cole! Gave it a one just for the improved graphics.

Save your money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: December 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

EA completely revised and changed a good thing. I am so frustrated with this game, if you dont get so many triwizard shields you cant unlock any more areas of the game. With HP 2&3 i couldn't stop playing, with this one, i dont even want to. Its such a disappointment that EA ruined a good ting. There is no exploring Hogwarts and finding secret passages, finding treasure, its just not what i expected at all.

what happened...?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: January 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

What happened to the fun, fast action Harry Potter games??? GOF seems 2 have just dropped below all 3 other games totaly. There's no Hogwarts, no teachers, no students, no exploring, you can't switch the characters, no spells!!!! WHAT HAPPENED???
Swimming and flying is awful, all you do is basically go up and down, and stick to a path. Do the characters talk? yes, but only when they're fighting. To be honest I nearly cried when i got this game for my birthday, so be warned.

Goblet of Fire Sucks!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 17
Date: November 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is a waist of money. It is very short with no resale value. The movie is just a bad. I have lost faith in Harry Potter because of the idiots who designed this game and the movie!!

If this had no stars, that's what I'd give it

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 8
Date: November 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is easily the stupidest Harry Potter movie, and game. Don't bother wasting your money (unless you already have; sucks for you) on this piece of crap. Complete junk. Boring, same stupid spells, no upgrades... The only difference in this game is the characters look older. Like, 16-7 year olds. Like they do in the movie. They should seriously keep actors that look younger. Not some hairy legged, big-chested gorillas that act like they're two year olds that keep throwing themselves onto one another due to raging hormones. Real big disappointment. Mike Cenzz, out.

A very disappointing birthday gift.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: December 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I just received the UK Version for my birthday. Nothing like the previous HP games. Instead of improving the "adventure" game, they have taken the "adventure" out of it, along with the enjoyment! An enjoyable adventure game, has become yet another continuous "fighting" game. My hands were sore after playing for 20 minutes. In a world filled with way too many fighting, thug, and war games, these days good adventure games are hard to come by. There are many unenjoyable aspect to this games, but it would be too lengthy to go into them all. There is one thing I feel I must mention. With previous HP games, we had a choice of how we set our controllers, but with this new game, up is down, and down is up, and we could find no way to access or change the control format to correct this. Making play quite difficult at best. Of course, as with most fighting games, if the level is not completed, the entire level must be repeated again and again. Unless you can somehow manage to learn to function the controls in reverse. My husband & I are both very disappointed that one of our favourite adventure games, has been changed so drastically. We hope our review will inspire the programmers to do better. We enjoy our HP games, and so looked forward to this new games with great anticipation, only to find that the new game paled in comparison to the previous HP games. This is one purchase we will be sad to returned. There is no point in keeping a game we will never enjoy.

I'd give it "ZERO" stars if I could

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: November 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Pay no attention to the people giving great reviews because they probably work for EA. This game is horrid and a complete waste of money. You can't control the camera, at all. You have no control over what you can and cannot see. It was so funny to have to sneak past the prefects in the previous game and zap different items looking for coins and beans. This game gives new definition to the phrase "no roaming". What happened was, the game was supposed to come out on November 10. On the night of November 9, someone at EA said, "Oh my gosh! The Harry Potter game! Did anyone start designing it yet??" Cleary an overnight concoction.

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