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. 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. 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.
Seven players make up each team, with positions such as Chaser, Beater and Keeper. 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.
You have the use of standard moves, such as passing, as well as special moves that can be earned by executing combo shots. Special moves are played by pressing a hotkey at the correct time. 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. The Golden Snitch is worth points, so this segment can easily determine the outcome of the entire match.
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. 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.
A limited turbo meter can be used strategically to close ranks if you are behind. Because Quidditch has no basis in reality, the game offers an intelligently designed training mode to ease players into the game. You will start out at Hogwart's by learning a few lessons and then playing against another house. Master a few more lessons and a second house becomes available and so on.
Special moves are limited at Hogwart's and the AI is automatically set to a very low level making it easy for the player. 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. World Cup play centers around country-based teams, so Harry and friends are relegated to the sidelines, however, the quality of play ratchets up quite a few notches.
Whereas the competition at Hogwart's was something of a pushover, in the World Cup matches, the computer will play to win. Special moves are also fully available in this mode of play.
Team names may not be very inventive they are named after their respective countries after all but they are balanced. For this version of the game, there are minor differences in how the teams play, but no distinct strong or weak points. Hopefully those differences will become a bit more pronounced in future releases.
Also, there is no option for a custom team. We've become used to seeing that feature in sports games and its absence was notable. Adding a little bit of depth to the single-player experience are the unlockable card options. Each collectible card is given to the player when certain challenges are met.
The cards then grant access to arenas, special moves and other items. When fully unlocked, the game allows players to experience "Queerditch. Multiplayer is limited to two players on a single console, with no online or four-player options. Playing multiplayer is similar to the single-player mode, with the exception of a real live opponent.
Because of Quidditch's low learning curve, it is very easy for a new player to jump into the game and start having fun quickly. While we were a bit skeptical when EA first mentioned the game, Quidditch World Cup is surprisingly fun with an appeal that reaches past the core Harry Potter fans. Even if you've never cracked open a Potter book or sat down in the cinema to watch one of the films, there is still plenty to like in the game.
Screenshots from MobyGames. Ghost 1 point. Jacob 2 points. Hey, I keep trying to swap the files like you said, but it won't let me swap or attach the file to it, saying I don't have enough space to do so. How do I fix this?
PTB 2 points. Hey everyone, I've figured out how to get it to run properly. Will try to break it down into steps. Download and extract the folder.
Click on Setup and then after clicking through a little bit it will ask you for a serial key. When it lets you go through to install stage, for me it had a dialogue box I couldn't click through but when I pressed the close button at top right , it started installing the game.
There will be 1 file called QWC. Right Click, then click cut, then go to the place where you installed the game and in that folder, there is a seemingly identical file called QWC. Click paste into this folder and it will ask you if you want to overwrite the folder. Click yes. It's played on flying broomsticks. And pretty much anything goes -- even magic. The basic idea is to grab the ball-like Quaffle and toss it through a big ring to score ten points. The three players who do that are called chasers, and there's a goalie called the keeper.
Simple enough. But then there are the bludgers: two magical iron balls that fly randomly around the field and try to knock the stuffing out of any player who comes within range. That's where the beaters come in -- players armed with bats to knock the bludgers away from their team and toward the opposing team. Oh, and there's one more ball: the Golden Snitch is a tiny, incredibly fast ball with wings and a mind of its own.
Each team has a seeker, a player whose sole responsibility is to try and spot the Snitch and grab it before the other team's seeker can. That's the only way to end the game, and the team whose seeker grabs the Snitch first gets a bonus of points. It's almost as strange and confusing as cricket. It was EA's job to turn Quidditch into a workable, entertaining computer game -- and they've done surprisingly well. Quidditch World Cup takes some license in the interest of gameplay: If you could grab the Snitch any time at all, it would make for some very short matches.
So the Snitch doesn't show up until both ends of the 'Snitch Bar' meet at the top of the screen. You accomplish that by stringing together passes and goals to fill up your end of the Snitch Bar. When the two ends of the Snitch Bar meet, regular gameplay stops, the Snitch appears, and you find yourself controlling your team's seeker in a twisting, diving chase that does a good job of capturing the feel of the movies' big Quidditch scenes.
Grab the Snitch, and the game is over, and you win -- unless, of course, you were more than points behind, which might just be possible in some of the harder matches. The game's early matches are easy enough. A challenge mode helps you learn the game by dividing it into relatively simple goals -- passing, shooting, controlling the bludger, etc. Complete the first few challenges, and you can enter the first match in the Hogwarts School Quidditch Cup.
Win that, and it's back to challenge mode to unlock the next match. Along the way, you earn Quidditch cards by reaching certain goals -- beating a specific team, winning a match by a set number of points, etc. The ultimate goal is to win the Hogwarts Cup and unlock the Quidditch World Cup mode, which lets you vie for the professional title as one of nine international teams.
That's when the game gets truly challenging; you'll need to unlock and master a strong set of special moves before you can hope to take your team all the way. The game's visuals are fast and detailed, with a crisp, cartoonish look perfectly suited to the world of Harry Potter.
Special moves are depicted in brief animations that blend fluidly with gameplay. Team special moves are the most elaborate, like the one in which the older Weasley brothers bat a bludger back and forth between them, clearing the way for a chaser following behind them -- then use the bludger to take out the opposing keeper for an easy score.
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