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Quidditch!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 27
Date: June 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This new Harry Potter game looks like loads of fun. Unlike playing quidditch in other Harry Potter games where you fly through a bunch of rings to get the snitch, you actually get to play the game in any of the positions. You do tournamants and other stuff like that so you can tell this game is going to be great.

About Time!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 12
Date: July 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I've been looking for this game for three years now, and they finaly made it. Now I'll tell you why I'm so exited. This is a Harry Potter game that breaks away from the books to focus on Quidditch. It is increadible, in all the other games all you got to do was fly through hoops after the snich. In this game that all changes, you start out at hogwarts allright, but you can pick any of the positions on the team, which are played to the extent they were meant to. After that, if your good enough, you could just get on a national team and play for the World Cup! This is one of those games you just have to have.

quidditch!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 7
Date: October 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

at least, we get quidditch. the best quidditch game ever... the only one. well this game is going to be great because you can play as any position and you can play as the 4 housses. alos you can play as 9 international teams. each one with its own stadium and more. you can collect quidditch cards and more well the bad thing is your going to play it in 2-d and not 3-d.. however it is quidditch!

Five Stars... For Potter fans at least.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 19 / 21
Date: November 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

In my head, I've been clamoring for this game since I first read through the Potter books in 2001. Quidditch is simply too well-realized a sport not to enjoy a video game incarnation; now, finally, we Muggles can play it whenever we wish.

From the first tutorial training challenges, Quidditch World Cup is immensely satisfying. The character animations and special effects are breathtaking, always worth the brief cutscene following any special move. Controlling the three chasers (the only position over which you have direct control until the end of a match) is simple and intuitive, though passing can get tricky at times. Whacking a bludger at an opposing chaser is always a sadisitic good time, and chasing down the snitch at the end of the match is appropriately exciting.

Are there problems with Quidditch World Cup? Absolutely. Most glaring is the utter lack of customization options, a staple for any respectable sports title. There is no way to slow down or speed up the snitch meter (when the meter fills up, the snitch chase begins, thus ending the match), and no storage of team or player statistics. These are minor gripes, and EA has plenty of time to resolve them in a sequel. All in all, these problems would probably only be an issue to non-Potter fans, who won't buy the game anyway.

All said and done, Quidditch World Cup is a charming and addictive realization of the fictional sport. And seeing as it's the only way any of us is ever going to get to take a turn on a Firebolt, it's at the very least a must-rent for Potter fans.

The fastest game ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: November 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game keeps you on your feet as you soar through the skies on a top of the line broom. You will soar through the crowds (but please don't crash into them).
You will play all posistions including seeker. I won't spoil any more fun so enter the magical world and be Harry Potter.

Played it today

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: November 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I had the opportunity to play the game for a few hours today and couldn't be more pleased. I've decided to break down the game into a sort of rating system.

Graphics: A-
- The stadiums are amazing, especially Spain's (in my opinion). The characters are very, very well done, with individual faces and likenesses. The reason I can't give it a higher grade is because there are ocasional flaws. When you're trying to catch the snitch or sending a bludger at someone the graphics change a bit.

Gameplay: A
- It's exactly like the quidditch that you see in the movies or read in the books. During the game you are prominantly a chaser, trying to score the goals. The chasers have a variety of moves, passes, and shots, most of which you need to earn by doing a skills thing before you play your first game. During a game you can become a beater and send a bludger at the opposing chasers. This was the hardest part to grasp because you have to actually direct the bludger with the directional stick so that it avoids the beaters trying to defend the chaser and actually achieves the goal of knocking the quaffle into your hands. There is a meter at the top of the screen that indicates when the seekers are getting closer to the snitch. I still am not sure how this works but apparently you can give your seeker a better chance by doing certain things during the matches. Kind of like a momentum shift. You actually become the seeker at the end of the match and try to snatch the snitch away from the other seeker. It's actually very tough despite the fact that you are given a sort of track to follow. During the game, when a special move is done, it will sort of take over the screen and show you what happened. It is actually a really cool feature once you get used to it.
Replay value: B+
My friend and I won the quidditch world cup with England. You have to play four Hogwarts matches and then 17 World Cup matches, unlocking stadiums and cards that help you buy new brooms and such. At the end you unlock another level, which you play with the hogwarts teams. It's going to take you a while to beat the whole game with all the teams so I'd have to give replay a good rating.

overall its a great game and i definitly recommend it, especially to Harry Potter fans.

wow

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: November 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is utterly the best game ever made. Who gives a ___ if the speed is slow. Who cares if its easy. What the heck. nothings bad about harry potter quidditch world cup!!!!!!!

WOW!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: November 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

WHAT A HOOT!!!
Cool format, great graphics. Fun game.
I think a very well done one at that. Very playable and addictive.

Not being a complete video game junkie, or caring much for sports games in general, I found this to be just wonderful! A great melding of entertainment, graphics, playability, fantasy, team play and fun!

Incredibly fun!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is so fun, my husband and I were in stitches playing against one another in the head to head competition.

There are several game play options (play against computer, play against another person, or the tutorial). First you need to "attend" Hogwarts and learn how to play Quiddich. Through a series of tutorials you learn to play the game and this is one of the best things about the game. I am 27 and at this point I don't have the ability that most 8 year-olds have to just pick up a video game and intuitively know how to play.

The graphics are fun and colorful and the characters look great. Those who are familiar with the book will enjoy playing their favorite characters. Along the way when you perform certain activities you can win "Quiddich Cards" that will allow you to upgrade your teams brooms (among other things).

This game promises to be hours of fun for any age!

QWC....One of the greatest games ever!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: November 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Yesterday,my parents bought me Quidditch World Cup. I hoped it was going to be cool. I tried it out and it was soooooo awsome! The controls were comfortable, it was not too challenging, yet no to easy.You could feel the exhilaration because it was just what I imagined in the books. It was life like too. When I tried catching the snitch, my heart beated faster. I definately recommend this for Harry Potter lovers!!

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