Video Games : Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup

Rating: - Falls A Bit Short
After Deathly Hallows, I was HP-drunk, and when I saw this, there was no way I wouldn't buy it.

Overall, it was alright. For a first attempt, it wasn't bad, but there are definately improvements that could be made.

First of all, control is limited. While you control left and right, and have some control over your speed, you don't really control the third dimension. (Up and down)

Also, once you get the hang of it, gameplay is very easy. Too easy. We're talking I squished my opponent ten out of ten times. It's actually funner playing head to head against a friend, though scoring is sparse in those games.

If I could go back, would I buy it again? Sure. There are good aspects to the game, and if your a Harry Potter fan, you'll probably going to like it, and get at least a couple days of good entertainment out of Quidditch World Cup.

I really want EA to try again...

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Rating: - Made a wonderful gift.
My nephew was looking for this in a PC release, and I found a new/sealed one here on Amazon:) He says its very fun and he is a tad older than the target age. His only complaints are the menu system.

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Rating: - HPQWC: Good, could be better.
I wasn't very enthusiastic about this game, but when I got it for my birthday, I thought "What the heck, I'll play." It was a wee bit more than I reckoned for. In previous Harry Potter quidditch matches, you can only play as the seeker and it take a very long time doing nothing for anything to happen. Not here. You can play as chasers, beaters (Sort of) and seekers. The teams are fun, but Hogwarts is a bit easy and World Cup can get dull after the tenth match. This game could be better. For instance, you could control your keeper when the chasers are coming, since 99% of the time the keeper doesn't get there in time. You could also play as a beater and hit the bludgers continously, instead of this weird throwing stuff. The crowds look rather 2D and the environments (Especially US & England) get REALLY dull after a while. It would be cool if you could customize your pitches, plays and teams and have the teams have names (In quidditch through the ages, it talks about all kinds of teams. The Moosejaw meteors, the Montrose magpies, the Chuldy cannons, where are they?). Oh yes, I forgot something. This game ROCKS! It's extremly addicting, the controls aren't impossible to manage and the commentary is rather funny. The music isn't John Williams, but it's decent enough and the challenges are fun. A very good game, but can get dull after about the five-hundreth round.

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Rating: - It could be better but...
This game is much fun to play. I like how they:

*let you choose what team you want to be on
*the settings for it vary which is nice also
*it is somewhat challenging when you first start to play it

BUT...THERE IS ONE BAD THING (I am sorry to admit). The game goes on forever and ever. I played until my team scored 999 points and I kept scoring but not getting any higher than that. You have to be in equal opposition to win the game and since I was getting all the points, it wasn't ending. In the end, you just kind of give up on it. This game IS GOOD, but it could be better.

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Rating: - Amazing.
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.