Harry Potter Gets Azkaban Game, Stone Brickbats

Posted by simoniker on Thursday December 18, 2003 @09:04AM from the overexposed-schoolboy dept.

Thanks to TotalVideoGames for its article revealing EA's announcement of the Harry Potter and the Prisoner Of Azkaban game adaptation, due some time in 2004 and giving fans "the first chance to play as friends Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, along with Harry Potter, switching between characters and utilising their key attributes and skills to resolve challenges." An interview with the game's producer over at IGN Cube further reveals players "will also get the opportunity to control Hedwig and to fly Buckbeak, the Hippogriff", and this internally-developed EA title will hopefully work better than the recent Warthog-developed Sorceror's Stone adaptation, of which 1UP commented it was "a mystery why anyone would want such an imaginative world filtered through trappings as bad as these", and IGN PS2 lamented was "strangely nowhere as compelling or refined as Chamber of Secrets."

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Re:Movie ports... by musikit · 2003-12-18 09:20 · Score: 4, Informative

you know when i went to gdconf i attended a session on building video games off of movie/tv IP and the person who ran the show often complained that the company they purchased the IP from was always cutting ideas/game concepts/money/time from the video game in the interest in getting it to market before the IP wasn't "interesting" to people anymore.

i only say this because often the game maker wants to actually make a cool and interesting game but is cut off by the publisher or IP owner. as far as movie/tv related games go rent them from blockbuster if they suck you wasted $5 if they're cool go out and buy them.