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As good as any EA sports game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 44 / 49
Date: November 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

You start off picking one of the four houses. You can easily switch from house to house though. Your goal is to complete practice challenges that will help you build skills to become a real tough competitor. I gained these skills and won the house cup with Ravenclaw and then with Hufflepuff.

After you win the cup, you can pick an International team to play against other countries. Most matches are about 30 minutes long, although I just played a two and a half hour match against England and won by over 1500 points. I highly recommend this game to anyone who wants a real challenge.

The key to doing well in this game, is to complete as many practice challenges as possible. Doing this will unlock more skills, games, special arenas, and better brooms.

This game introduces many popular characters from the books (Luto Bagman, Viktor Krumm, and several others found in "Quidditch Through the Ages" or the first 5 books).

Good, but not without flaws

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 20 / 24
Date: March 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I like the Harry Potter book and film series, but the video games have always been lacking something, and QWC is no exception. Of course, I'm 24 and these games are made more for kids.

Straight off, game play is VERY easy. There is no difficulty setting. You don't have altitude control; the game assumes this for you, and makes it fairly easy to maneuver about the field.

It's also very detailed with the characters. I'm not sure JK Rowling has detailed team rosters written up or not, but I recognize a lot of names from the books. I don't think they come right out and say it, but you're playing Second Year students; Draco Malfoy is the Slytherin seeker, and he didn't get that position until "Chamber of Secrets."

I've noticed that there are some Potter fans who don't like Harry and his friends; this game cleverly caters to these fans as well. You don't have to be Gryffindor; you can be Slytherin, or my favorite, Ravenclaw. When I played Gryffindor, I beat them 500 to nothing (again, attributing to how easy this game is) and Harry walked away disappointed.

The biggest problem I have with this game is the skill level. It's so easy, a 5 year old could play it. However, rather than adapt to your skill or offer a better difficulty, the game "cheats" at times to catch up. You'll be playing and all of a sudden it will cut to a cinematic, where the other team will pull off a fancy score. They're fun to watch the first and sometimes second times, but after that they're a drag, and you can't skip them. There's also a few other nasty tricks the computer-controlled team can pull on you, but if you have some skill, you can still win every time.

I disagree with other reviewers' assessments of EA Games. They're a very well known publisher, but I have had really odd problems in the past I won't go into here. When I play a game from EA, I expect problems. One issue I had was in the Japanese field. Sometimes the Chasers would fly through the buildings on the side; other times, the Chaser could get "stuck" on one side.

The Golden Snitch aspect of this game is rather funny. You don't get a run as the Seeker until the Snitch is "spotted," which doesn't happen until so many points are made. Each team's score counter has a bar with half the Snitch, and as the other team scores, your bar increases. When the two halves meet, the Snitch enters the game, and you take over as the Seeker. The computer controlled Seeker has about 8 times more "turbo" than you do, but that just means yours refills faster! Refill turbo by staying in the Snitch's slipstream. I catch it every time... (Also, for some reason, they call it the Snidditch, though it's clearly Snitch in the books.)

Despite this game's quirkiness and strange difficulty, I'd recommend it to anyone looking for a fun game. If you're a parent, there are a few things that make this game appealing, for example, at the end of the match, it shows members of opposite teams congratulating one another. (The Seeker never shows good sportsmanship, however.)

Fun for Potter Fans

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 17 / 19
Date: November 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Keep in mind I am a 26 yr. old avid gamer. So my review will be diffrent than others. But I am also a Harry Potter FAN!!! I have fun with the game.

Pros: If you like Potter and think Quidditch is the coolest idea in books, then stop reading and go buy the game now.
EA made the game, One of the top game designers, especially for sports. Music is fitting, VERY colorful and the look is captured well. It is fun (most important part of a game), I do enjoy playing. Graphics are above average, character models are ok and try to reproduce the actors (a nice touch!)

Cons: The game should be 3D and I should be able to control EVERY (up and down)direction. No Online play (come on this should be a staple now!) for 2 player you must share the keyboard (dumb), also, coming from EA, it should have had a build a character mode. Some type of customization. Like others before me said, the game had potential. Commentary is VERY repetitive. Cut scenes are nice but not needed. Need more options to control visuals, no High Definition Resolution. No adjust Difficulties!!! Too easy. Heard it gets harder but so far I win games like a 1,350 - 10 score. Menus could be WAY nicer, with mouse control and not using keys. Maybe these will be fixed in updates or a sequel! I hope! Due to the easy AI, that can hinder replay value :-(

It is targeted for the younger audience but most fans of Potter I know of are in the 20-35 range.

Have Fun!!

A Great Game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 10
Date: January 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

First of all, this game is great (as the title of my reveiw implys) for both fans of the Harry Potter book/movie/video game series and sports fans alike. Good things first--

... this is an abselutely great game with 14 beautiful environments. These places are the national Quidditch Stadiums (which include, but are not limited to, France, Germany, Bulgaria, England, the USA, Japan and Australia) the Hogwarts stadium, and Queerditch Marsh (the birthplace of Quidditch, for those of you didn't know).

The plot of the game is suprisingly clever for a sports simulation-game; you start off at Hogwarts as one of the four Hogwarts Houses where you promptly learn how to play under the guise of "Quidditch Training." (By the way, do not be put of by the first chaser's challenge, it is one of the hardest in my opinion and I have abselutely no idea why EA Games chose to put it first). After you complete your training (but don't feel put off if you don't pass all of them, you'll do fine in a game as long as you have a basic understading of the different positions and how to play them) you can go on to playing games against the other houses, and I don't men those "only Seeker" games like in the other Harry Potter games, in this you play as all the players, with the exeption of the Keeper. If you winn at least one game against every house and/or manage to keep your point total up you could win the Hogwarts Quidditch Cup and, in addition, tickets to all of the games in the World Cup where you promptly go on to choose a team to support (play as) all through the World Cup.

Let me tell you, the graphics are incredible! The charecters, the Stadiums (Queerditch in particular.) I just can't put their greatness into words!

It is amazing how "right" the game has it. Even the names of the Hogwarts Quidditch players are correct, as are the rules of Quidditch and the way it is played.

All right now the Cons--

1. You can't play as Ireland and they won the Cup in Harry potter and the Goblet of Fire!

2. There is no way to change the difficulty, and after a while I started to want a harder game.

3. I thought that it would be kind of cool to see the evolution of Quidditch, from Chasers only on up. Needless to say, the game does not include this.

But dispite the cons, this game is pure fun in a pretty package, with it biased and hillariuos comentating, great gameplay and amazing graphics.

See you next time!

P.S I forgot to mention, I do not recomend this game for children under 8 or 9 years old for the games can be confusing and needlessle frusterating for these young and blooming gamers.

The Best HARRY POTTER EA GAME

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 11
Date: November 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is a really great game! It is way more exciting than the Chamber of Secrets and Sorcerer's Stone games. It's really fun and easy to control. The best part is that you can play on teams of different countries. Also you get to see characters from the fourth book like Ludo Bagman and Viktor Krumm. Its also fun that you can play all the posistions and can use different broomsticks metioned in the books. You can explore the sport better through tricks and special moves. Also its fun to collect the Quidditch cards! This game is really good and I would reccomend buying it definitely!
Hope ma review was helpful!

Not what it could be

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 10 / 11
Date: June 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

A friend of mine suggested that this video game wasn't very good because Quidditch was an invented game, not a real game, and so it hasn't had all the flaws worked out of it through practical experience the way soccer, basketball football and the like have over time. That may be true, but I think Quidditch could be a great game, but Electronic Arts just didn't put the effort into it that they could.

My biggest complaint is that Quidditch is clearly designed to be a 3-dimensional game with players able to fly right left, forward and backward, and up and down. In the video game, the up and down flight is automatic and out of the players' control. This really just turns it into a weird version of soccer which it shouldn't be.

The other flaw is in the AI. It's just too easy, and the opponents aren't good enough at the game. In all fairness, the game was designed for a younger age group and for younger kids it probably is close to the right difficulty to make it challenging but not frustrating. Electronic Arts could have spent more time on the AI and offered people a few difficulty levels to make the game more challenging for older players, or for younger players who succeeded at the easy level and wanted to keep playing with a new challenge.
If EA were to revisit Quidditch in the future, and they fixed the Up down element and made the opponents tougher, I'd be willing to try again before writing off Quidditch as a poorly thought out sport. I still think Rowling was on to a great idea with the game, it just hasn't been done right for gamers.

Amazing!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 13
Date: November 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is absoloutly amazing! - I'm a big Harry Potter fan, and when I first saw the game Qudditch was coming out and it was EA Games that was making it, I thought that nothing else could be compared to this!.

Well, in some point I was right and some wrong... - it's a little bit too easy... I have only unlocked the 2001 Broom (I don't know if it has anything to do if the computer plays better??)

It is really realistic! - Loads of the people you know from the books are in it and it's great fun, with the commentaries, blugders, special moves and more!...

Although, a match will take some time!

It's good, but I'm a bit disappointed

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 9 / 13
Date: January 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The good part of Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup (hereafter: QWC) is that you have a lot more options on playing Quidditch, compared to the first two Harry Potter games. It's neat to be able to play the other positions, to see and play as any of the houses, and to play non-Hogwarts competition. All of those aspects were very much necessary for this to carry its own weight as a separate game from the two (so far) book-story-related games (HP:SS and HP:CoS).

However, the broom-flying is MUCH easier in QWC than in the book games. In HP:CoS, you have to control both the vertical and horizontal directions of flight, and the vertical controls (which seem anti-intuitive, until you get used to them) are by far more difficult than the horizontal. This, to me, was part of the fun -- it isn't easy, and that's a good thing. In QWC, you control only the horizontal / directional flight. At first, I wasn't sure that the game was actually responding to my commands. In my first catch-the-snigget (for some reason, QWC calls the "snitch" the "snigget" -- what happened? What's wrong with the word "snitch"?) practice (aka "challenge"), I caught the little gold bug WAAAAAY too easily, and wasn't sure that I had actually caused it -- it seemed random. Obviously, how hard is it to chase the snitch when you're only controlling left and right (and to some small extent, speed)? Not very.

Similarly, as a chaser, it's WAY too easy to take the quaffle from the opponents. Scoring has a touch of realism (though it feels odd to discuss realism in context of a fantasy game) with blocks and saves by the keepers, but not being able to control elevation is a pain. It just feels wrong.

I got started playing the HP series games with my kids, and overall, they are great fun. As a typical parent, I'm not as good at the games as my kids, but the flying in QWC is too easy, even for me. Still, it's fun to play, especially trying out all the different teams and characters.

the best game ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 18
Date: November 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

this game i recieved today and its the best game ever please dont listen to that rat that was talking bad about it he should read the package that says 5+ well any ways you can be a seeker, chaser, keeper, or beater. I tryed all of them and i can't deside wich one... i recomend this game to all harry potter fans 5+!!!!!!!! Its so cool I played it for hours with out stoping!!!

Amazing.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: October 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game was amazing. Now, I have had little to no experience with the computer games of today, so I may be unexperienced with the standards of today, but this was quite possibly one of the best, if not the best, computer games I have ever played.

The graphics were amazing, just look at all those beautiful World Cup stadiums - so much glamour. Everything zooms past in a beautiful way, the graphics are never wasted.

The gameplay is simple, I sometimes find myself paying no attention to what's going on but watching the screen and pressing the keys like a robot.

The controls are amazingly simple, even if you don't have a NumPad. I have a laptop, with no NumPad, and I had to turn on NumLock to acquire one, and had to move my fingers around the keyboard, which was quite fun for someone who enjoys typing like me.

In my Num-Padded state, my NumPad controls were 7 (Combo Left), 9 (Combo Right), and U (Bludger Attack). Combined with the arrow keys and the mouse that's about a foot underneath my laptop, it gave quite a lot of fun zooming my hands around.

If you have a laptop and are a poor typist, this may not be the game for you. But if you are amazing with a keyboard, go ahead and buy this.

One regret of mine was that the World Cup droned on for 18 matches, and because you can't save during it then come back, you must do them all in one sitting.

So get up early in the day to do the World Cup matches, and do them with your wonderful typing skills.

The game itself was lovely. Everything was excellent and flawless, the gameplay was extremely smooth and simple to learn, the tutorials were quite entertaining, and the team uniforms were quite lovely.

I suppose this concludes my review. Buy this game, especially if you have a NumPad.

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