Quidditch? You've got to be kidding me.

[IntvGene]

"The Harry Potter money printing machine rolls on with EA announcing the development of 'Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup'. Players choose one of the Hogwart’s house teams to represent then move on to the world cup. Here they then choose a national team, each with its own personality. The gameplay looks suspect in the films, but the EA press release gushes with enthusiasm and describes it far better than I could –

The magical sport of Quidditch is an exciting and challenging game involving two teams of seven players who fly on broomsticks, four balls in simultaneous play (one Quaffle, two Bludgers, and the elusive Golden Snitch), and a unique scoring system. In Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup, players can control all the Quidditch positions and high-flying moves, scoring with Chasers, defending with Beaters and the Keeper, and trying to capture the Snitch with the Seeker.

The game is currently in development in EA’s UK studio and is expected as an all-formats release at the end of the year."

This was taken from http://www.ferrago.co.uk/story/1463.
I am not dissing Harry Potter. It's a fine fantasy series, and that's not my problem. However, this "sport" was possibly the worst part of the films / books, and I can't imagine the video game being that fun at all (maybe as a mini-game, but for $50!). Anyone else think that EA is milking the Harry Potter franchise to death with this or what? I think it's the best idea since Spaceball's: The Flamethrower.

[Achika]

Well, I think the real question is, do they put it under their EA Games logo or EA Sports. I like the books, the movies a little less, but I haven't picked up any of the games or other shameless advertising. I think they can pull it off well since they are the leading publisher & developer of sports titles though.

[davidbrit2]

I think I, and a lot of others will laugh ourselves stupid if it's sold under the EA Sports label. Hopefully Kick the Can would be next on their lineup. :-D

[zmeston]

Well, I think the real question is, do they put it under their EA Games logo or EA Sports. I like the books, the movies a little less, but I haven't picked up any of the games or other shameless advertising. I think they can pull it off well since they are the leading publisher & developer of sports titles though.

It'll absolutely be EA Games -- it's a fictional sport, and it's not "xtreme" enough for the BIG label.

I haven't read the books, only seen the flicks, so perhaps someone familiar with the tomes can answer this -- what in THE hell is supposed to be going on in Quidditch, anyway? The plot of "Red Zone Cuba" makes more sense than anything in those Quidditch sequences.

-- Z.

[davidbrit2]

It'll absolutely be EA Games -- it's a fictional sport, and it's not "xtreme" enough for the BIG label.


Are you kidding? Riding around on broomsticks and tossing a winged ball around is about the most extreme thing ever.

[zmeston]

It'll absolutely be EA Games -- it's a fictional sport, and it's not "xtreme" enough for the BIG label.


Are you kidding? Riding around on broomsticks and tossing a winged ball around is about the most extreme thing ever.

Heh! Point taken. Are they tossing that winged ball around, though? I thought they were trying to grab it... oh, never mind. All I know is my girlfriend's mom isn't buying the new book because of its obscene price point.

-- Z.

[Achika]

It was a joke.....



Anyhow, basically everyone rides around on broom sticks and there are like 3 types of balls. Um, two of one type fly around and try to hit everyone, the other type is used to score points. Now all the players except for 2 go around doing their own thing with that. Those last two people go looking for the golden snitch (the little gold one with wings) and when they get that, the game is over....etc. etc.

I'm getting my copy for $17.99. Most Barnes & Noble, Borders, Amazon were taking pre-orders and giving 40% off the cover price. But for 1000 page hardbound, that's a good price.

[hamburgler]

The game is gonna be boring from what i see.You have to be a huge fan of it if you really like the game a lot. -_- -_- -_- But who know's if the game will be good or not.

[kainemaxwell]

Geez, I even forgot what the balls are named now...

Anyhow be intresting to see, Quidditch would and does lend itself to an intresting sports-type game.

[GENESISNES]

lets just hope this is better than the shitty mini game on harry potter and the sorcerers stone for pc. it sucked! about 30 minutes before you actully got close to the damn snitch!! and you dont even get anything for winning all 1st place matches! it took me over an hour to beat the minigame and nothing! not to mention the game sucked anyway.