Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup [Review of the game]
At the beginning of the zero, the world naturally covered Potteromania – people led the conversations about sticks, Hogwarts, owl mail and quiddich incomprehensible to simple mortals. It all began with the work of a simple English graduate of a philological faculty, who spent several years on writing his first book. Her book suddenly! everyone liked it than predetermined the appearance of the famous series. But books are books, and the media product required development and money. The rich uncles from Hollywood were the first to encroach on this, and there, even before the game industry, it became a stone’s throw. For the first two films, despite the trend that has been preserved so far, quite solid games have been released. And now, once in one of the EA departments they remembered that their office makes good sports simulators and in a wake of popularity decided to make a game about the most popular magical sport – Quiddich. Is he worthy of your attention? Let’s figure it out.
Harry in thought was wandering to the field for Quiddich. The memories of his first acquaintance with Quiddich suddenly surged on him. His reckless flight that Professor McGonagall noticed, who brought him to the Gryffindor national team. A huge stadium, an amazing gaze of an inexperienced boy, Oliver, explaining the basics of this magical sport.
Stadium for Quiddich
A large field, on the edges of which there are three rings on each side, the middle ring is slightly higher than the other two. Also in front of the rings there is, the so -called penalty area, beyond which the goalkeeper cannot be released. There are high stands around the stadium. According to the rules, players cannot fly outside the fields, but at the same time there are no height restrictions.
Kvoffl – Leather red ball with a diameter of 12 inches. Used by hunters and, as a result, is one of the main engines of the match by the end.
Bladeer – Crazy ball killer iron 10-inch ball flying around the field and trying to knock down any player from a broomstick. The game is attended by two of these “Oka Chaos”. Blacks are the main instrument of the game for the beaters who beat them in or from other players.
Golden Snitch – Golden ball with wings, the size of a walnut. He is bewitched to avoid the capture for as long as possible and its capture means the end of the match. The game is the purpose of the catcher.
In the nostalgic thoughtfulness, Harry reached the Green Field, where the team was waiting for him. He was confident in her, and this confidence was mutual. Captain Wood infected the determination. Everyone trained stubbornly and improved their skills during the season. The moment of truth has come and everyone passionately wanted to get the Hogwarts Cup in this academic year.
Hunters: Katie Bell, Angelina Johnson, Alicia Spinnet.
Their task is to take Kvoffl from enemy hunters (no one except hunters and goalkeeper has the right to touch Kvoffl), graze him to each other and throw it into rings.
Pronigns: Frad and George Weasley.
Their task is to protect their players from Blagers and beat the Blagers into enemy players.
Goalkeeper: Oliver Wood.
Oddly enough, his task is to protect the rings from the attacking enemy hunters.
Catcher: Harry Potter.
The catcher should catch the decrease as soon as possible. The captured Snitch finishes the game and often brings victory to the team that caught it.
And so, the teams flew out onto the field and organized a circle in the center of which the judge was. Kvoffl flies up, and Gryffindor hunters have already rushed, like cannon nuclei, to the rings of the enemy. Harry sees this landfill only out of the corner of his eye, his attention is focused on finding a golden Snitch. Noticing the movement on the edge of peripheral vision, Harry flies with lightning in that direction. His hand almost concerns Snitch, but his gaze is unexpectedly darkened by a sharp blow – he loses consciousness … When he comes to his senses, they will tell him that he was knocked out of the game by the Blooder, and he, contrary to all the circumstances, managed to catch a golden fugitive and thereby brought victory to his team. This year, in addition to the Hogwarts Cup, Dumbledore presents the team two tickets for the World Cup in Quiddich.
Hunters
Kiton Fitny, Avery Hokksvort, Edrick Super.
Pronigns
Don Wate, Indira Chaidri.
Goalkeeper
Denison Frisby.
Catcher
Blyite Parkin.
Hunters
Gianni Fedole, Debbie Muntz, Robert Green.
Pronigns
Prungl, Lucas Picvari.
Goalkeeper
Susan Blenchflauer.
Catcher
Darius Smekhammer.
Hunters
Feng Nataraki, Kashamira Suzuki, Noriyuki Sato.
Pronigns
Chen Lee, Keiko Takahashi.
Goalkeeper
Enard Tako.
Catcher
Sizuka Vatanabe.
Hunters
Kursen Blik, Kurt Todt, Igor Brand.
Pronigns
Elena Eldritech, Katarina von Gllockpilery.
Goalkeeper
Hermann Wil.
Catcher
Conrad Weiss.
Hunters
Carmen Garcia, Ana de Lebron, Chavella Arbelo Kartai.
Pronigns
Vasco Santini, Tiago Montaoya.
Goalkeeper
Sendelina Felino.
Catcher
Inigo Fuente Marrero.
Hunters
Josephin Marat, Matilda Mallard, Hildegard Lafarzh.
Pronigns
Alain Lacrois, Ninon Suset.
Goalkeeper
Bastien Zhanvier.
Catcher
Sibill Pelter.
Hunters
Matthew Echunga, Maria Montate, Kenneth Gastings.
Pronigns
Kylie Medous, Kelly Vakkarangapavarau.
Goalkeeper
Johnny Nuhak.
Catcher
Lucy Karunda.
Hunters
Vasily Dimitrov, Clara Ivanova, Alexey Levski.
Pronigns
Peter Volchanov, Ivan Volkov.
Goalkeeper
Leo Zogrov.
Catcher
Victor Krum.
– The national team of the North
Hunters
Olaf Andersen, Peter Hansen, Lorre Gustafson.
Pronigns
Asgard Peterson, Asheir Knutsen.
Goalkeeper
Martin Helstrom.
Catcher
Tina Lundstrom.
Transylvania was also supposed to participate in the tournament, but at the last moment it was disqualified for reasons unknown to the general public.
Illustrator Rossley-Illustrator prepared a conceptual sketch of the Transylvania team for the game Harry Potter: the World Cup in Quiddich. It shows two beaters as werewolves, and five other team members either vampires, or demons, or others at the same time. Dirley said that the Transylvanian team, although he turned out to be “funny”, was cut out of the game in the production process.
Each team this season is very strong and each has an impressive chance of winning. But two Gryffidos – Harry Potter and Oliver Wood – still hoped that the team for which they were rooting would win.
Meanwhile in the world of Muggles.
In our, more boring, compared to the magical world, there was a beautiful time – autumn. Autumn 2003. On October 28, the game “Harry Potter: Quiddich World Cup” was published in North America, and it was published for as many as five platforms – Game Cube, PlayStation 2, Xbox, Game Boy Advance and PC (for the Windows operating system, understanding). It was published by its Electer ARTC unit – Electronic Arts UK (since 2008 EA Bright Light, since 2011 the unit has been disbanded). For EA UK, it was a debut project in games about the famous scam -bearer. In subsequent years, all games associated with him and the wizards universe came out from under their keyboards (except LEGO Games, for Lego is seriously!)
The technical aspects of the game were verified. Good schedule for that time, observing the style of films and, not too complicated, but fascinating the gameplay, could calmly sell the game to fans of the work of Joan Cathling Rowling, and just people who were interested in the theme of sports in films about a young wizard.
The essence of the gameplay, as in any popular sport, boils down to a set of points by clogging heads, one abandoned queffl- 10 points. Only Snitch makes adjustments, the capture of which gives the team 150 points, and in some situations it is an ultimatical argument in favor of the room that caught. This is especially bright at high levels of complexity. Let’s start with how to start this little Hermes?
On top we see a strip on the edges of which two halves of Snitch. When they converge together The portal opens to the warp and the gods of chaos … Oh yes, Quiddich. Snitch appears on the field and the catcher receives under your control. The more successfully your team acted, the greater the acceleration supply and, as a result, is easier to catch Snitch. The success of the team is affected by how she played before the launch of Snitch: the more beautiful passes, use of special receptions and simply scored heads, the longer a strip of success of the catcher becomes (no matter how ambiguous it sounds).
The rest of the time we play for the hunters with which we can give Passes, select Kvoffl and throw it into rings.
A logical question arises: where are the beaters? Let’s move on to the abilities used and we will gradually figure it out in everything.
For certain actions during the match, you are given special opportunities that can and should be used to improve your position in the match.
Trick – allows you to make a jerk forward.
Bladeer – Your removal hits the Blager and control switches to the ball. Your task is to knock down a hunter who has a ball in his hands. Hit lellies success with the enemy catcher.
A special reception – can be used both for the selection of the ball, and for 100% clogging the ball into the ring. The attack on the ring relieves success with the enemy catcher.
Command specialist – The ball should be with the player of your team. The reception special for the command is performed and clogged from one to three heads, depending on the command. Also relieves success with the enemy catcher.
If all this sounds too difficult for you – do not be alarmed, in fact, everything is many times easier than you think. In addition, there is good training.
– Championship Hogwarts.
Here you can restore historical injustice and lead to victory, for example, the team of Kogtegrand.
– World Cup
You can annoy Victor Kram or lead Bulgaria to victory. And there are also 8 more very peculiar teams that you can also lead to possessing a coveted cup.
– An indicative game
It is allowed to choose two teams, stadium, difficulty level and arrange an epic indicative match.
Also, after the first passage of the World Cup, the opportunity opens up for the teams of Hogwarts on the legendary swamp of Quirds, from which the name of the game went.
For the fulfillment of various conditions, you get cards. These are simultaneously collectible items, and Achivka, and Angolka. There are 78 cards in the game. 13 of them are divided into three parts and are themselves cards of team specialses, which will have to be earned for starters and only then will it be possible to use this technique in the game.
Depending on the number of cards, various techniques, complexity levels and the ability to play for Bulgaria are opened (for its unlocking it you need to have 65 cards in your bins).
Interesting stained levels of the complexity of the game.
Mettle made by Komet. All schoolchildren of Hogwarts used this model.
Harry Potter received her from Professor McGonagall when he joined the Gryffindor team as a catcher. The fastest broom before the creation of a nimbus 2001.
Lucius Malfoy presented these huts by the Slytherin team in Quiddich so that they would accept his son Draco as a catcher. The fastest broom before the appearance of “lightning”
“Lightning” – a broom of a professional level, very fast, very sensitive, equipped with auto -brakes. Develops speed up to 150 miles per hour in 10 seconds. At the time of release, it was the best racing broom in the world. And, accordingly, very expensive.
And if with a comet-260 the game seems too light to you, then on a zipper you will fight for every abandoned ball.
I must say about music, isn’t it? She is great here. She is great here because she was written by a famous and incredibly talented composer – Jeremy Soul.
(There was a Flash player, but since 2020, Flash has not been supported by browsers)
Golden Snitch is caught, let’s summarize.
The game is tailored soundly, but, alas, has the main pros and cons of the typical representative of his genre. The choice of teams is large enough, matches are interesting and dynamic. Only the impression is spoiled by the reproductiveness of actions during the match, not very large number of modes and the same videos of special capabilities, which after some time are annoying.
Who can recommend this project? First of all, fans of the original source and films, which at least at least hooked this funny sport. As well as those who are looking for something interesting for a couple of evenings. The game is not a masterpiece, but spending a couple of evenings on it will not be shameful.
