Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

by Electronic Arts

Product Features

• Control Harry's friends Ron Weasly and Hermione Granger as they face Sirius Black and the Dementors
• Amazing new spells let players freeze creatures, control dragons and more
• Multiple exciting subquests and minigames as you explore Hogwarts, fly on a Hippogriff and other challenges

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00021HBQ8
• Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 5.2 x 1 inches ; 1.6 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: June 15, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,758 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: Game Boy Advance

From the Manufacturer

REVIEW: The Dementors are coming and this time Harry needs his friends. From the opening scene on the Hogwarts Express to the climatic finale on the shore of the great lake at Hogwarts, the Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban videogame immerses the player in the world of Harry Potter with captivating gameplay, stunning environments, and graphics that bring to life the magical world familiar to anyone who has seen the films.

Features

• Play as Harry, Ron and Hermione - Change characters at any time as you work with your friends to unlock the secrets of Hogwarts.
• Face the Dementors - Can you overcome the dreaded Azkaban guards?
• Connectivity - Trade collector's cards and connect to the Nintendo GameCube to care for and race your own owl with the Owl Care Kit.
• Two-player Mini-Games - Including Flying Seahorse fishing and Duelling Club.
• All-New Mini-Games - Including Buckbeak's Hippogriff Glide and the Riddikulus Boggart Challenge.

Product Description

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban takes you back to the magical world of Harry Potter. Face incredible new dangers and amazing wizard challenges, as you fight escapees from Azkaban -- the notorious prison for wizards!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

31 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very nice RPG; even more if you are a Harry Potter fan., June 28, 2004

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Rocco (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Video Game)

This GBA game is a very well done RPG rendering of the omonimous Harry Potter book.

You control the wizardly trio (Harry, Ron, Hermione) in the quest to unveil and defeat the traitor that caused the death of Harry's parents.

The story starts out with a well done and useful tutorial: while on the Hogwarts Express you have to try to capture Ron's pet rat (or whatever kind of rodent it actually is).

The story then unveils in Hogwarts. You can explore with your party the various chambers of the academ, visit locations you are familiar with either from the movie or the book, and make many pleasent encounters with notorious Hogwarts characters.

Combat is turn based and all members of the party have their own special powers. Furthermore, you get 17 spells you can learn and find in the game that will enhance your party's power and there are a lot of in game items with which you can buff up your characters' defenses and main game characteristics.

Overall the game is a very nice RPG, very simple and charming. Graphics is ok, as the overall quality of the game. Expect to play for no more than 20 hours though. Replay value is not that high, as you will be able to retain all the levels you accumulated in the first game (monsters instead don't improve at all).

Bottom line:
This is a very nice Harry Potter game. I love how EA transformed it in a complete and simple RPG. I strongly suggest any Harry Potter fan to buy this.

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Keeps getting better & better, June 1, 2004

By 

shadowette (OKC, OK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Video Game)

If one were to compare this game to Sorcerer's Stone or Chamber of Secrets, they would agree that this is much better.

POSITIVES: 1)Secrets are still challenging, but a little bit easier to find 2)You are required to find everything before completing the game. This is much better than the Sorcerer's Stone where the game just ended and you didn't have a chance to try and finish gathering cards or finding secrets 3)Virtually impossible to die. Instead of losing lives in challenges and going back to the last place saved, you are simply moved back to the position right before you fell. 4)Gamemakers were much more generous in beans, pumpkin pasties, and cauldron cakes

NEGATIVES: 1)Hippogriff riding presented quite a challenge and probably the most difficult part of the game. You are required to fly the hippogriff through a course for 5 levels. Each level progressively harder than the last. The 5th took quite some time to accomplish.

All in all, I gave the game 5 stars because it presented enough of a challenge to be stimulating, and enough story to be entertaining. Strongly recommend this one. The price is great too.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WOW!, June 21, 2004

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Video Game)

This game was MUCH better than I expected. The graphics are quite realistic and the movements of the characters are as good as some of my PC Potter games. The game controls are simple and one can learn them in a very short amount of time. Azkaban is challenging, yet lots of fun. Some disappointiong I found out about this game is that some objects can only be moved in certain directions with your wand and that even if you have SP, it's hard to see what's in the dark corridors, and in the battles you have to mostly depend on luck. But overall, this is a MUST HAVE for any Harry Potter fan. So if you like Harry Potter a lot, have a GBA and are reading this review.............BUY THE GAME!! ^_^

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