10 Crazy Things You Didn't Know About The Harry Potter Quidditch Video Game
Harry Potter is not just for book-lovers and movie-lovers. It is also for gamers! Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup is a video game where players can unleash their competitive quidditch sides. Players carefully listen to Oliver Wood's instructions and rules about quidditch. They then choose which House they play in and pick a Seeker.
The game begins, and players compete until the end of the famous Hogwarts Quidditch Cup. Players who consider themselves huge Harry Potter fans probably think they know everything about the game. However, below are a few things players don't know.
10 Time Period
The game of Quidditch appears throughout the Harry Potter books and movies. Therefore, the game occurs within a certain time period. There is no mention of this in the game, but it is actually during a school year at Hogwarts. It occurs during year-three for Harry around 1993 or 1994.
Players cannot figure out the time period of this game because it is in a rather basic setting. It makes sense that it occurs during year-three because quidditch is still happening often. Besides, Harry still has some experience at this point, and none of the notable Gryffindor players have left Hogwarts yet.
9 New Teams
In Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup they announce new and different teams not limited to the Hogwarts House teams. Players have the option to play as part of professional Quidditch teams as well.
There are some drawbacks to this, though. Hogwarts House teams are limited to playing at Hogwarts, whereas professional teams can only play in the actual Quidditch World Cup as featured in the game.
8 Excluding Characters
Let's be honest; fans mainly focus on Harry during the quidditch in the books and the movies. After all, he is the reason the entire franchise exists. Despite this, many other characters participate in Quidditch but nobody really concentrates on their names, let alone knows who they really are.
In the game, however, all of the characters who don't have official introductions finally get them. They are still not playable characters though. These poor characters are constantly facing exclusion in some form.
7 Different Versions
There are a few different versions of Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup. The Game Boy Advance version is more simplistic without as many features. The Windows and ported console versions had a bit more detail.
The game is also available on GameCube where two players can play together. Players can even connect their Game Boy Advances to play against each other. The player who wins orders a Bludger to attack the other player's Chaser.
6 Bonuses
Many players enjoy the thrill of playing Quidditch, but they don't necessarily know about the game's bonuses. There is actually a whole other stadium that players can unlock. This stadium is the Queerditch Marsh and it's the first-ever Quidditch introduced in the game other than Hogwarts. It is not the most glamorous Quidditch stadium, but it has character. It's on an oval land with a river and unsteady stands. Plus, players toss the Quaffle into bird nests instead of hoops, which is cool.
5 Eye Contact
There are many close-ups in the movies and descriptions in the books. However, there is never a time where the characters make eye contact with the audience. Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup is the only Harry Potter construction where characters speak right at the audience. Granted, they only do this during the introduction of the game. Even in the movies, characters never look right into the camera and talk. It's pretty impressive that this game is the first of its kind in the Harry Potter universe in terms of this.
4 Special Passes
Players know that in a game of Quidditch, they must catch the infamous Golden Snitch. Harry is one of the best Seekers in the world. However, players are in control. Therefore, they have to figure out how to catch the Snitch without Harry's mad skills. The quickest way to catch the Snitch in the game is by special passes.
These passes require players to volley the Quaffle 8 times. This then creates a Combos where players can boost and chase the Snitch. Of course, players can catch the Snitch in other ways. They probably don't know that this is the easiest way possible though.
3 Snitch
The Golden Snitch is key in the game of Quidditch because players automatically win if they catch it. Catching the Snitch is exciting enough, but players can drastically move forward in the game from the Snitch. Players gain extra boosts when flying so it becomes possible to catch the Snitch.
What they probably don't know is that the entire team gets boosts as well. The thing is, when players are chasing the Snitch, the score freezes. This feature allows players to catch the Snitch without having to worry about the other team winning.
2 Unlockable Move
There are many different advantages in Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup that players can unlock. There are items that they can unlock such as the Bludger. Consequently, there are certain moves they can unlock as well. One of the most important moves to unlock is a team move.
This offensive move unlocks depending on what team players choose to be on. The team move is also the most time-consuming move to unlock in comparison to the others. However, it gives the team an extreme advantage because players can use it throughout the field, and this is not limited to one player or one area. Among other things, it allows players to block, bombard, and score many goals.
1 Same Stadium
Many games that use inspiration from movies or books often look somewhat different. That is to say, the settings and characters usually vary from the original production in some way. However, in Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup the stadium looks exactly the same as the original.
The stands have the colors of each team, and the lawn has the same outlines. Don't forget about the perfect placement of the hoops too. The game even attempts to put the characters in the seats they sit at in the movies.
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