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Harry Potter Gets Azkaban Game, Stone Brickbats

Posted by simoniker on 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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  1. Play as? by Matrix272 · · Score: -1, Troll

    giving fans "the first chance to play as friends Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger,

    Damn... I was hoping to play WITH Hermione. Say what you want about pedophiles and all, but that girl will be HOT when she gets older (note: not now, later... after 18... or 16 ... depending on when she develops).

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  2. When she develops by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    One flick of the wand:

    Mammarium INFLATIUM!/I.