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The best by far

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: March 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I played this game about a year ago and my sister and I (I'm 25 and she's 18) played it non stop until the end, which took a few days to complete. Then we played it again and yet another time, trying to do a little better each time and just having friendly competition with each other. It is so much fun. Now, a year later, I saw it on the xbox rack for under $15.00 and bought it right up and we're at it again. The graphics are great. Really superb. Especially the mini movies in between levels. The characters are true to how they look in the movies. Thankfully, it's their real voices and not some hokey version of it. It doesn't stick to the plot of the book, but whatever. I wish Krum and Cedric were in the game, but alas they are not. And there's no Quidditch. That's kind of a bummer. But overall it's really fun and my second favorite game ever. I would recommend it to anyone.

HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: January 31, 2006
Author: Amazon User

THIS IS THE BEST HARRY POTTER GAME EVER. YES, I'M SAYING IT. IT TRULY IS THE BEST HARRY POTTER GAME EVER. AND ON TOP OF THAT, IT IS ACTUALLY FUN!

YOU MIGHT THINK THAT ALL THE OTHER HARRY POTTER GAMES HAVE BEEN VERY BORING, RIGHT? WELL, WITH THIS ONE, IT IS VERY DIFFERENT. INSTEAD OF PLAYING AS JUST HARRY, YOU CAN PLAY WITH ALL 3 MAIN CHARACTERS. (HARRY, RON, HERMIONIE) THIS GAME IS NOT JUST A REPEAT ON THE OKAY HARRY POTTER 3. YOU DO NOT ONLY DO PROBLEM SOLVING, BUT DO ACTUAL ADVENTURE. THIS IS THE WAY THAT HARRY POTTER GAMES SHOULD BE.

SOME OF THE COMPLAINTS THAT I HAD WHEN I RECEIVED THIS GAME WAS THAT IT IS TOO SHORT. IT TAKES ABOUT 3 HOURS TO BEAT THE WHOLE GAME, AND THAT IS WEIRD CONSIDERING IT IS A HARRY POTTER GAME.

I ALSO NOTICED THAT THE SPELLS ARE CONFUSING TO CAST AT FIRST THANKS TO THE GAME NOT LETTING YOU CHOOSE YOUR OWN BUTTONS FOR SPELLS, BOOKS, ETC.

OVERALL THIS GAME IS THE BEST HARRY POTTER GAME EVER. I RECOMMEND THIS GAME FOR PEOPLE WHO CAN TAKE ACTION, AND A LOT OF FIRES.

THIS IS A GREAT GAME, SO DON'T WASTE TIME, BUY IT NOW!!!

Awesome game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: September 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I love Harry Potter and really enjoyed playing this game. It is so easy to follow along, and you can lose track of the time because you are so engrossed in the game.

Goblet of Fire for XBox

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 11 / 17
Date: November 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

With stunning graphics and creative challenges and environments, Goblet of Fire captures attention right from the start. Taking advantage of the multiplayer format, you can play with up to two of your friends. So much more than experiencing the excitement of the game together, EA has made a truly cooperative experience, with the ability to combine your magics for new and more interesting effects! Some excellent AI keeps a single-player from losing the rest of the trio, without having to mind them at every turn (though they do the occasional annoying or harmful thing).

A change in format from the previous games, almost all "levels" (such as Hogwart's grounds, or one of the Triwizard tasks) are accessable from the main screen (a Pensive), to which you return after every sucessful venture. While, in my opinion, this takes away from the Role-Playing aspect of the game, it enhances gameplay in other ways. One can, just as easily, play through the game quickly as spend hours upon hours discovering every little nuance. In this, as in many other similar things, EA did an excellent job of recognizing their teen and young adult (and not-so-young adult) audience, and trying to balance that with the expectation that Harry Potter is for children.

That said, however, there are a few things I dislike about the game. The "camera angle" in many parts of the game is annoying, if not downright frustrating. As I mentioned previously, the "feel" of the game is a lot farther from Role-Playing that what I've come to expect from the Harry Potter series (you can't endlessly play in Hogwart's castle, as you could before). While involving less fuss than before, I disliked the "intuitive" spell-casting (the spell used is determined by what you're casting at), and the less-clearly defined meaning of how to cast a spell "perfectly" (which gains the player rewards). I'd also like to register my complaint that none of our young wizards-and-witches-in-training wore robes; where's the fun in that?

In all honesty, I think it's about time that someone got around to making a Harry Potter Online Role-Playing Game. There are hundreds (if not thousands) of text-only Harry Potter RPG's out there, and an enormous fan-base that would play such a game, a high percentage of which are an untapped market in the world of MMORPG's. And there are so very many neat ways it could be done...

HOLY WOWOWOW

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: December 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

It's about time. A fun Harry Potter Game. What you have heard is true. This is an action Harry Potter game. I love it. It will keep the attention of anyone who has not been a fan in the past. This is because this is an action game where as the other potter games have been a hunt for and talk to collect-a-thon. Is there talking this time? Yes, but only while you are fihghting. In fact, you do not have to read anything if you do not want to. Excellent audio samples and voice acting. The game is fast, fun and creative. You will casts numerous spells. A big complaint has been that you don't pick your spells, you just always press the same button and perform whatever spell fits the situation. BUt I like it. It would slow down the action if you had to go through some menu, and it would limit the spells if they were limited to the number of buttons.
Bottom line: Great action game. If you remotely like the series, you will finaly love the game.

I rather Prisioner of Askaban

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: March 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Hi!!!

Well.. the game is not bad, its just that it seems that Im playing The Lord of the Rigns, its the same leveling format.
I liked The Prisioner of Askaban better cause it gave me more freedom, it was almost like playing "The Leyend of Zelda" in Nintendo Console...

Thants my opinion.

Not as good as Prisoner of Azkaban.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is a decent video game, but it is a little more restricting in where your character can go compared to the previous Harry Potter game, Prisoner of Azkaban. Overall, though it is still a fun game to play if you are a Harry Potter fan.

HP goblet game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game for my 14 year-old son, and he enjoys it immensely!!

ditto

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: August 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I was a bit disappointed, it was like the last game I played only a few more things added to it....but I am a true fan and played it anyway...go harry.

A waste of time... What was EA Games thinking?!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 20 / 23
Date: November 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If you are a fan of Harry Potter of even an avid gamer, this is not the game to get. This is (and I'm even including the re-release of The Sorcerer's Stone) byfar the worst Harry Potter game ever made. Why? I'll tell you.

First of all, the cut scenes explain very little and the gameplay in the middle explains even less. There is no Yule Ball, no owlery, no exploring the grounds and looking in the various rooms. All you do is go to preset levels, explore them, and then return to the pensieve to choose another. There is really no point because the levels aren't really linked except for the Triwizard Challenges and even those are sloppy.

The underwater challenge? First off, it doesn't explain it well enough. There is no revelation from the golden egg. Before this level, you go to the greenhouses and Hermione says, "Neville said to go to the greenhouses to help you brethe under water for an hour." Is this explained? No! Then at the end of the underwater level, you look up and see two things floating. What are these things? I would have no idea had I not read the book, but I did and so I knew what they were.

The gameplay? Ack! It's so annoying! The camera is always like an arial view of everything. There's really no low shot except when you're running through a SMALL section of the maze. Other than that it's all above you.

Then there's other parts that I won't even get into! All in all... Bad game! I wanted to return it, but they'll only give me $12 for it! That was my birthday money and I am SO not happy right now!

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