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Upcoming Awesome Game. Can't Live Without It. Can Live With.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 42 / 48
Date: June 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

My opinion is this game's going to be the better than the two first Harry Potter video games, even at the risk of combining the first two.I've heard from other sites the game's going to follow the book more closer than the movie. I also hear the game will be released in Q2 of 2004. You will be riding Hagrids pets, including Buckbeak. You will be learning 10 or more spells than the second Harry Potter, and possibly more than one class a day. EA's adding much more to the game, than the second and first. The game will also be longer. This time possibly a few months to beat. It will be realistic just as the second, as in day and night. It is even a rumor there will be more than 30 days in Harry third year! Keep in mind it's only a rumor. Little is still known about Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, because the game has yet to come out. I'll keep you updated with the third Harry Potter Game. B-Bye!

The Incredible World of harry potter bundle potter for play

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 13
Date: January 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

i want to know how much it is for the price. thank u.

Facts, Facts, Facts!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: January 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Hello! More facts have been released on the game. You can play as Harry, Ron and Hermione switching between them to complete the task. You have the opportunity to fly Buckbeak, control Hedwigs, and there are more cards (more than just wizard and witches cards) to collect. So far, SOUNDS SO EXCELLENT! IT WILL BE A MUST BUY DURING IT'S RELEASE!!!!!

NEWS

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: March 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I think this game is going to be the best of the first two games. I think everyone is going to by it. I just can't wait till it comes out. I hope it is not like 30 or 40 dollars. I already know I will love this game.

Hello again, Just a Shape Up

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 14
Date: March 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Okay, we've gained more information.
The follwing are spoilers to the game, so if you wanna not know stuff about this game turn your head.

EA seemed to visit places and release some info. In a video, the company was shown by EA that Ron, Hermione, and Harry, along with the sleeping Professor Lupin rode Hogwarts Express. The mission began where you got to explore the train in control of Ron. You encounter a book that suddenly attacks Ron and you get the first taste of the fighting system. Harry, Ron, and Hermione are all used for different things and can be switched anytime during the game as long as you're not doing an alone mission. For example, since Ron comes from a wizard family he can sense secret walls or passagewalls that is impossible for the others to sense. Hermione, since she is smaller than Harry and Ron can fit into spaces that Ron and Harry cannot, and since she is so smart she has a lot of useful spells. Harry, on the other hand, through the game takes Professor Lupin's personal class and learns the Patronus Charm which can drive off dementors.
Anyways, after the montrous book is defeated soon after you'll encounter Draco Malfoy who wants to duel Ron. But as the duel begins, it is said that something is wrong, because the train door is slowly opening letting a dementor into the train. He floats at least two feet off the ground, and Harry faints from the sight of them. Ron is to drag Harry to safety while Hermione goes to get help from a teacher. If a dementor is to catch Ron in the process you'll actually see the dementor sucking the soul out of Harry. A wriggle of the analog could release you from the dementor, though. (whew)

I also have this little feeling of the stuff that I've read about this game, that if you're far in the game, you have the opportunity of combining their stregnth by pressing certain buttons at a certain time and it is also impossible to win some boss fights without doing so.
There are sadly, some downsides. The loading time again is interferring with the game. One minute was what the team said it took to load AT THIS POINT. They're fixing it to around twenty seconds and even less for Xbox and GameCube.

All in all, this game sounds awesome doesn't it? Make sure you buy this at your local game store when it's released or pre-order it today, ah?

new info

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: April 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The famous young wizard Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts for another year of schooling... and you'd better believe that he's got adventure in store for him. Defeating your enemies won't be possible unless you pay very careful attention in your magic classes, and master a series of mini-games designed to test your knowledge and skills. Are you worthy of being called The Boy Who Lived?

Wicked game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: April 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Hey everybody
This game is soooooooooo kool, u get to play as ron and hermonie as well as the usual HARRY POTTER, from the openin scene on the hogwarts express til the final mission down by the bank of the great lake where u fight off all those dementors with ur expecto patronim (patronus) spell u get to have another season of QUIDDITCH and it has been confirmed halfway through 1 of the matches in a big strom u fall 50 feet off ur nimbus 2000 and it gets blown into the womping willow and gets crushed, then later u get ur brand new FIREBOLT!!!!!!!! of ur godfather.......wait i won't say who harry's godfather is hehehe yer but u get to fly on a firebolt!!!! i'm gunna get dis game right away wen it comes out i already have wat like 100 dollors saved up cya's all l8ter

Something Wicked This Way Comes!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: April 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Well finally after waiting a whole year Harry Potter year 3 is finally coming to theaters and having a brabd new video game coming soon. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban for Playstation 2 is going to be the best Harry Potter game yet!!! With wild 3D graphics and for the first time ever being able to play as Ron and Hermione!!!! Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban for the Playstation 2 will be released in the United States and Canada on May 22nd, 2004, so make sure that you run to your local store or pre-order it online soon as possible should be a big seller!!!! Peace Out!!! ps-rumored to take a couple months to complete entire game!!!!

Good looking, true to the story, but definitely a rental.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 45 / 51
Date: June 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I'm going to start off by coming right out and saying that I played the first two titles in this franchise, and enjoyed them both. I've read the books, seen the movies, and have enjoyed (for the most part) the games. So as you read this review, appreciate that I'm not coming down on Harry Potter himself, nor am I slighting the world that Rowling has created in the books, and Warner Bros. have put to the screen. Nor am I even taking undo shots at the great and mighty Electronic Arts, although they deserve a few for getting a little lazy with this most recent addition to the line of Potter gaming titles.

First and foremost, let me air my chief complaint. You don't play Quidditch. Not once. In fact, you never touch a broom. The Quidditch matches are reduced to a static cut scene, where you're simply holding the Quidditch Cup. The cynic in me suspects that EA left it out to help drive sales of their stand-alone Quidditch title. But none of the speculation matters, it's simply not there.

My second issue is this game is exceptionally short. I'm not sure how long it took me to finish each of the first two, but it was longer (in each case) than the 5 hours or so it took me to play this one from start to finish. That's not braggadocio. I mean, for one, we're talking about a game in the Harry Potter franchise that has to be something that can appeal to, and be completed by, a wide age and ability range of gamers. So 'easy' isn't an issue here, particularly since a game like this isn't so much something you get for a challenge, but rather an opportunity to sort of live a little bit of Hogwarts. For another, I enjoy getting off the beaten path a bit in games. So this wasn't a case where I just raced through, I collected the pages, cards and beans (although there was really no point to it -- in the last title you spent beans on trinkets Ron's brothers had for sale, not so here). I played the side games, made sure I had A+ in each of the 3 'minigames', Buckbeak's bat chasing, owl racing, and dueling club. The point is, even if you allow yourself to be sidetracked, there will quickly come a point in the game where Dumbledore tells you to speak to him when you're ready to hear who won the House Cup. Make no mistake, that's the end. With no final cut scene, save a grimacing Snape as confetti falls, and some jumping around by the winning house, the game simply drops you out to the main menu. I'm not sure I've ever seen a more abrupt ending, it's a bit like the developers meant to do more, and simply ran out of time.

To wrap up my gripes, the control is a little wonky in this one, some sloppy camera angles allowing you at times to lose site of everything as you stare into the woodgrain of a bookcase, or a stone wall that has blocked your field of view. Games with this perspective have been around long enough that this should have been much cleaner.

I'm not all complaints though. This is, by far, the best visual presentation the franchise has enjoyed so far. There's a level of artistry in this game that really jumps out at you, and there are times when you'll find yourself admiring the composition of different scenes. They clearly went out of their way to make it look good.

So that's the quandary here. The game looks good. It plays adequately, and while brief, it's true to the story. So is it good? I'd have to shrug and say `yes', and I'll give it 3 stars for the sake of this review. It's certainly worth a rental, and while I know some will scoff and flap their Hogwarts robes in outrage at the suggestion that this isn't worth buying -- I think that's an important point to make here, and one that I wish I had considered before plunking down cash for this game. Really, don't buy it unless you're making a point to collect.

I sort of imagine the development team for this game sitting around a table some time ago, in a meeting intended to lay the groundwork for the game. And in my imagination, a lot of great ideas are tossed around, but then someone in a suit with insectile eyes speaks up and says "Look, that's all great, but toss it out. What's important is the cover. As long as it says 'Harry Potter Prisoner of Azkaban', it will sell. Make it look pretty, but don't spend just a ton of time on this. Create a linear gauntlet of 'Point A' to 'Point B' light puzzle solving, use the voices of at least some of the actors from the movie -- and it will sell, and sell well." I don't know if that's how it happened, but this game falls well short of expectations driven by the first two titles. It's always those people in the suits...

You do play as Harry, Ron and Hermione. There is "new" action, such as flying Buckbeak, and Hedwig. But there's no depth to any of that. Some of the puzzles are clever, the visuals are terrific, the sound is solid. It is, in the end, a Harry Potter title, true to the book and the movie, and for that alone, this game will find its way into people's libraries. I simply hope EA gets its act together and really does something with the next title, so that I don't again feel like the game was merely an afterthought. The first two didn't feel or play like that, there's really no reason the third one should have.

No Quidditch. How could they?

Disappointment Compared to Harry Potter 2 Game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: June 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game was a complete let down. All challenges throughout the game are exactly the same and did not vary in difficulty - i.e. moving boxes around and pushing buttons. Game play was only about 12 hours - compared to over 30 hours from the second Harry Potter. The story did not follow the book at all and it was irritating to have to switch between characters to use the various spells. Also, by only allowing two place holders for spells or objects, you have to continually switch back and forth to the menu page selecting the spell you want for that particular activity. Overall, this game was an utter letdown - especially after all the fun and challenge of the Chamber of Secrets game.

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