Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup is a
Harry Potter video game released by
Electronic Arts in 2003. Since there wasn't a new
Harry Potter film in that year, this Quidditch-themed game was presumably created to fill the gap.
Tropes
- Adaptation Name Change: Slytherin's Keeper is named Kevin Bletchley. In the novels his first name is Miles.
- Artificial Stupidity: One of the requirements for unlocking Germany's Team Special is to win when the other team catches the Snitch. Sound easy? It is, but the "best" part is actually letting the other team catch the Snitch. Long story short, they take FOREVER to catch it.
- Canon Foreigner: Technically the case for many of the Hogwarts and international players, few of which are even given one name in canon. More prominent is Edgar Cloggs, a ghost on the Hogwarts pitch who serves as the player's training partner; unlike canon ghosts, he can handle physical objects just fine.
- Cosmetically Different Sides: Aside from the cosmetic differences between the teams and the fact that the Hogwarts teams obviously cannot play alongside the international professional teams, there's virtually almost no difference between any of them gameplay-wise (outside of the Team Special Moves that are unique to each team), meaning that you can play a Hogwarts team with skills that rival those of world-class professional teams without any issue.
- Early Installment Character-Design Difference: The game includes Cho Chang, Cedric Diggory, and Viktor Krum at a time when those characters had only ever appeared in the books. Thus, their designs do not correspond with the actors who would play them in the Goblet of Fire film two years later.
- Endless Game: In a way, the game can be this. You cannot end the game until you catch the Snitch, and you cannot catch the Snitch until the Snitch bar at the top of the screen meets, which progresses according to how many times you pass the Quaffle. So if you play without passing, it can take forever to ever get to the Snitch-catching itself. And when you get a Bludger or Team Special Move, you can significantly reverse the progress of the Snitch bar…
- Final Boss: Bulgaria in the World Cup series is intended to be one if you weren't playing as them, as you will always play at their home stadium last in each World Cup season (though you do face the Bulgaria team one time beforehand on your home turf). They're dressed in all red and black costumes with a Team Special move that's comparatively more aggressive than other teams, not to mention that you're facing off against Viktor Krum himself, who's Famed In-Story as the greatest seeker in the world. Lastly, Bulgaria is the only international team that needs to be unlocked, as opposed to other teams that are already unlocked beforehand.
- Rubber-Band A.I.: If you dominate the other team to the point where when the Snitch-catching starts, they have little to no Snitch/boost bar, there's at least a chance for the opposing Seeker to come out of nowhere and take the Snitch JUST before you can.
- Toros y Flamenco: The Spanish team members are dressed as bullfighters, their stadium is a bullring and they SCREAM!!!, don't talk.
- Unlockable Difficulty Levels: The game features four levels, only two of which are unlocked at the start. Comet 260 is the lowest level, Nimbus 2000 is the medium difficulty, Nimbus 2001 is hard, and Firebolt is expert. Nimbus 2001 and Firebolt require several Quidditch Cards to unlock.
