Rating: 
Summary: Not what it could be
Review: 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.
Rating: 
Summary: WONDERFUL
Review: Controls: AMAZING
Color: PERFECT
True to the book: Yup
Idea: EXCELLENT
EA games has created the sport of Quidditch into na amazing 3-D computer adventure. You can now play as any Hogwarts house (something you couldn't do in the other games). I for one always have wanted to control Draco Malfoy as a seeker in a computer game and now I can. Also, you can play in an internation team. The Hogwarts field represents the one in the movie wonderfully and the internation fields are EXTREMELY creative and well done. They were a HUGE surprise. The images are excellent. This is the best Harry Potter PC game that they ahve yet come up with and my favorite. I LOVE playing it and if oyu ahven't tried it out yet click the yellow ADD TO SHOPPING CART button (If you're a kid tell your parents to click the yellow ADD TO SHOPING CART button.)
Rating:
Summary: A Great Game!
Review: 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.
Rating: 
Summary: Pretty Good!
Review: Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup is great fun game suited for all ages with awesome graphics gameplay and music. Go get them Harry.
Rating: 
Summary: DON'T BUY THIS GAME
Review: I had been looking forward to this game for a long time. I just bought it and cannot find words to express my disapointment. This game had a ton of potential, but it was not realized. The thing about quidditch that was to have set it apart from soccer, basketball, and hockey is that it is 3D. Unfortunately this game is not 3D. You only control backwards/forwards and left/right motion. You do not control the vertical aspect of flight. In other words, you are for all intents and purposes on the ground. If you want to play quidditch then do yourself a favor and just play the quidditch portions of the previous harry potter games. At least then there will be something to do besides playing a watered down versions of hockey. WHY ISN'T THIS GAME 3D?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Rating:
Summary: Good, but not without flaws
Review: 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.)
Rating:
Summary: Good, but not without flaws
Review: 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.)
Rating:
Summary: Good, but could have been better!
Review: I was so excited when this game came out because I thought it will be very fun just like how quiddich should be but after I tired it at home it was just okay to me. I don't know about you but I am a huge HP fan so I don't know why this game wasn't so appealing to me as I thought it would be. I like the graphics and stuff in this game but if I were you, I would rather buy the Harry Potter 1, 2 or 3 computer game instead of this one. I mean, they have quiddich in them too just not so much like this one. It really irrates your eyes when you stare at the screen for so long chasing the snitch.
It's a good game but could been better.
Rating:
Summary: Fun for Potter Fans
Review: 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!!
Rating:
Summary: Damn good game
Review: Ok first im a official reviewer for a belgium games magazine so i know what im talking about.
The game itself is very good i dont know what that one star reviewer was talking about unless he bought the game for GBA.
This game covers all the aspects of Quidditch. The gameplay is easy once you get the hang of it. The graphical is fine and in full 3-D (exept the backgrounds but you won't focus yourself on that, trust me.) Sound is also very good it gives you the impression you are eally flying a broom. Financial this game is rather cheap for its qualyity. Oh, and for some people The +5 is just the ESRB rating wich indicates, in this matter, that the game is suited for kids. overal i give this game 5 start and my magazine 10/10. Hope this was helpfull.
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