Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Harry Potter7

Product Description

Harry Potter and the Goblet Of Fire continues that adventures of Harry Potter. Harry is mysteriously selected as the fourth contestant in the dangerous Triwizard Tournament. Each competitor in the international competition must confront a fire-breathing dragon, rescue friends from the icy depths of the Black Lake, and navigate the twisting mysteries of a vast, dangerous maze. Players can experience the thrills of the movie from the Quidditch World Cup campsite to a heart-stopping duel with Lord Voldemort himself! Experience the thrilling moments of the movie and put your magic to the ultimate test in co-operative play with up to two friends.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3951 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Model: 14633149852
• Released on: 2006-06-15
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platform: Nintendo DS
• Dimensions: .50 pounds

Features

• All the Magic of the Movie - Characters modeled after their big-screen counterparts, cinematic environments, captivating gameplay
• The all-new spell-casting system allows players to really feel the magic for the first time, as the controller shakes and reacts with every flick of the wand
• Gamers can team up with friends in cooperative play to combine magic and produce more powerful spells
• All playable characters are modeled after their big-screen counterparts

From the Manufacturer
Be Harry Potter in a new adventure with more magic, friendship, and danger. In a stunning next-generation rendition of Harry's world, learn new spells, undertake new quests, make new friends, and challenge new adversaries to confront the powers at the heart of the Chamber of Secrets. Do you dare take the chance that you might face You-Know-Who again?

Features:

• Explore a richer world: dazzling next-generation graphics create an authentic immersive Hogwarts.
• Go deeper into Harry's second adventure: greater magic control and advanced second-year spells.
• Greater depth: featuring wizard duels, power-up spells, Quidditch leagues, and all your favorite characters from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, including the extremely famous and incredibly talented Gilderoy Lockhart.
• Take flight: hop on Harry's Nimbus Two Thousand and freely explore Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
• Harry comes to life: his internal voice guides the player through the game.
• Slay a fire-breathing dragon, rescue friends from the icy depths of the Black Lake, and navigate the dangerous twisting mysteries of a vast, dangerous maze.
• Team-up with up to two friends in co-operative play to make more magic and powerful spells than ever before.

Customer Reviews

Fun for a while... (Some spoilers)
This game is really fun, until you get to the final battle with Voldemort, then it starts to get annoying. First off, Voldemort is almost impossible to defeat,but it takes him about 2 hits to defeat Harry. Okay, let me make something clear. I have read all the Harry Potter books, and I know Voldemort is not supposed to be easy to defeat, but the makers of this game just made way to hard then it should have been. Second, this game is way too short. I could have beaten it in a day if it wasn't for that cheap final battle.
If you like Harry Potter you might like this game, but you should try renting it first.

At Least I Don't Have to Play Harry
When it comes to this game, it's pretty obvious that Nintendo DS was pretty new. The graphics are not as good as they are on Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and the player of the game, hardly uses the stylus. The only time the player uses the stylus is for fighting a creature. This is fun in prospective but when the player barely gets to use the stylus, it makes me wish I was playing Prisoner of Azkaban for GBA. At least the player gets to fight the creatures more offten and cast spells, even if the stylus isn't involved.

The most refreshing part about the game is the player gets to choose which Trio member they would like to play as. The player has the option of playing Harry, Ron, or Hermione throughout the whole game, except in the last task of the Triwizard Tournament and when fighting Voldemort since Harry obviously does those alone in the book and movie as well.

The most annoying part of the game was having to go back through levels to find badges because the player needed a certain spell in order to get to it. Some of the spells required to access this item, were not learned until later on. Also, some of the badges were hard to find and even the cards. I ended up turning to Fred and George to buy most of the cards because it seems like I didn't find that many.

Also, the individual games were pretty fun and interesting until the player gets to the Bertie Botts Bean Sorting. I found that one quite harder and was annoyed that there wasn't any check points until who knows when. Some of the individual games were too easy like the Candy Pairing, Feeding the Hippogriff, and Chocolate Frogs.

Overall, the game was pretty fun and time consuming. It kept me busy for a few hours but it's pretty obvious that it is an early DS game because of the graphics are like a GBA game and the stylus is rarely used. I'm not sure I quite liked the use of the spells either. It wasn't as fun as the Order of the Phoenix for DS.

Has its moments, but very repetitive
The game definitely has some good things going for it - the sounds are very good, the adaptation of the film and books are overall well done, and some of the mini games are quite enjoyable. All of which does not make up for the most annoying part of the game, the sheer mind-boggling length of the levels. Not length in a good way, length in a "enter a room, beat the exact same creatures in the exact same way, solve a puzzle the same manner again" way. There is a line between challenging and monotonous, and the game designers crossed the line a long time ago. Certainly, shorter levels would have literally made for a shorter game, which is usually a bad thing. but nobody playing the game can help but groan when you clear one screen and go to the next that is exactly the same, and then keep doing that over and over.

I also wish they had made more use of the touchscreen. The mini-games use it and are generally well done. You also use it sometimes when battling a creature. This part is actually pretty fun, and hints at the true potential of a Harry Potter game in which you do lots of things with the touchscreen, such as emulating wand movements. Unfortunately, the touchscreen creature battles happen randomly and rarely, and can be annoying - they take a long time for easy creatures that would have been defeated quite easily without the touch screen spell-casting mode. Conversely, they are quite handy when fighting some of the more tougher (or annoying) monsters, as you can always win fairly quickly in the touchscreen mode.

The graphics are not quite up to par with other DS games, and there are places where the controls are difficult and the characters can get stuck. The gameplay is very straightforward - make your way from point A to point B, by killing monsters and unlocking puzzles (mostly by levitating things around). You play as one of the three characters, and the other two are with you can controlled by the game. However, for the most part they are useless and only get in the way. The game would have been much better if the other two simply apparated in when you needed them for those times when a large object just happens to block your path and can only be moved by the combined power of three wands.

All in all, I cannot give this more than two stars, as its potential is more than overweighed by the glitches, the bad gameplay, and the annoyingly repetitive levels.