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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.

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.

The best gaming experiance ever known to man.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 9
Date: February 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game was the best addition to my nintendo gaming systems! After playing the Hogwarts School games for every nintendo system, (gamecube and gameboy)I was furious at how boring and simple the quidditch games were compared to how excited I got while reading the quidditch scenes in the seiries. This game Interested me at the time they were advertizing it on the television because it was only concentrated on quidditch and the trailer looked like it would be like a real great quidditch game.
The best part of this game is the world cup where the player can become the controller of an international quidditch team and fight there way to the top of the league. Befor you can get to the world cup you first have to beat the Hogwarts cup, which seemed to me to be like an enterance into the controls of the game. In this game you can play as all of the Hogwarts house teams and some of the international quidditch teams mentioned in the Harry Potter sieries. One team that you can not play as is Ireland which is dissapionting to me because it is my favorite tem that was in the Harry Potter sieries because they throuhgh out fake gold coins to the crowd of the Quidditch World Cup in the fourth book, as a joke.
The controls in this game are set up so that they are very easy to us while it still looks complicated on the screen. This game is set up like a Tony Hawk game where you buy new tricks the better you get and the more tasks you complete. The game has great graphics and teh best audio in any of the Harry Potter games. You can play this game no matter your gaming level since it is made up of differnt levels determined by how many quidditch cards you have or the broom you fly.
Even if you do not know what quidditch is get this game you will learn fast because you will be playing it so much!

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.

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!

harry potter quidditch world cup

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 11
Date: November 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

this game is awsome. if you are a harry potter fan like me you will love it. if youre a quidditch fan you will go crazy for it.

(sports fans try this game out its like sports in the air)

so grab your fire bolt broom stick and hit the quidditch pitch. see ya in the air. so see ya ...

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.

harry potter quidditch world cup

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 11
Date: October 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

this game is really cool you get to fight at different places like japan or france or many other places you get to chose your teams and you get to earn wizard cards to earn your broomstick or team like you can have a nibus 2000 or 2001 or even a firebolt the higher you are the harder it gets but its really fun this is like the best sports game ever well thats my opinion but this is better then harry potter and the prisoner of askaban or chamber its really cool. i hope this review was helpful enough.

Very intoxicating

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 10
Date: June 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I've played alot of video games and but there isn't one even close to Quidditch. It's not just playing in a quidditch match either. There are different challenges to complete that help make you a better player and gives you cards to get higher levels of play. I love the aspect that you can play all players. From watching the movie I thought the only interesting player was the seeker, but now I know that I would definately be a beater, but a chaser is very fun too. There are tons of places to play and every stadium is extremely different from one another. The first day I got it I played it for 8 hrs straight, but the only downside is that my thumb got a blister :( Otherwise this is one of the best games ever. I highly recommend it.

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