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In many ways, playing at Hogwart's is the Quidditch equivalent of Little League play, master it and you can move on to the big leagues - the World Cup. Special moves are limited at Hogwart's and the AI is automatically set to a very low level making it easy for the player. Master a few more lessons and a second house becomes available and so on. You will start out at Hogwart's by learning a few lessons and then playing against another house. A limited turbo meter can be used strategically to close ranks if you are behind.īecause Quidditch has no basis in reality, the game offers an intelligently designed training mode to ease players into the game. Stay on the trail and get a speed boost, slide off and you will slow down drastically giving your opponent a chance to race ahead. Catching the snitch plays much like a high speed racing game as players are forced to maneuver their broom on the snitch's narrow trail. The Golden Snitch is worth 150 points, so this segment can easily determine the outcome of the entire match.

Throughout the match, a two-part meter at the top of the screen is closing in towards the center - once closed, the game switches from the main field of play to the final race for the Golden Snitch. Special moves are played by pressing a hotkey at the correct time. You have the use of standard moves, such as passing, as well as special moves that can be earned by executing combo shots. For the majority of play, the object is to score points by throwing a ball through one of three goals on your opponent's side of the field. Seven players make up each team, with positions such as Chaser, Beater and Keeper. This results in a little less depth of play, but it doesn't really hamper the game because the learning curve is much less severe. While this allows for some impressive maneuvers in the films and the game's cinema sequences, players will not be able to utilize 3D space everything's instead kept on a 2D plane. The game of Quidditch is played on a standard rectangular field, much like a game of football, only no one ever touches the field itself - instead of running, all the players fly above the field on magical broomsticks. One part hockey, one part soccer and one part pure fantasy, Quidditch World Cup may not have the draw or the depth of Madden, but it is still plenty of fun to play. Other characters in Harry's world have garnered interest, of course, but the one thing that's nearly as popular as the boy wonder isn't a character at all, rather an event: Quidditch! After reading about it, seeing it played on the big screen and then getting a brief taste of it in the videogames, Potter fans clamoured for more and sports behemoth EA responded with Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup.Īlthough the game is being produced on the EA Games label (apparently EA Sports only does real world stuff), the developers have borrowed from the wealth of sports titles in EA's library in order to ensure solid play mechanics. Young and old, and on both sides of the Atlantic, the fictional young wizard has fans galore. Spread across books, films and videogames, there is no denying the power or popularity of the Harry Potter franchise.