Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Nintendo GameCube, 2005)

Harry Potter enters his Fourth Year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and finds himself in a bit of a pickle not even halfway into the year. Harry has been chosen to be one of the Three Triwizard Champions, but he’s the fourth!

What is the Triwizard Tornament? It is a three-task battle between three schools, one champion from each school. Cederic Diggory, naturally a Hufflepuff for Hogwarts, is chosen out of the few that enter due to an age limit. Meanwhile, one from the other two schools that come for the battle are chosen. All seems well enough, until another name comes out from the Goblet of Fire, the object that holds all the names and randomly chooses one from each school.

Oddly enough, Harry’s name is on the paper.

Harry is now bound to a magical ancient contract, and now must go through all these tasks and live, for someone is out to get him, someone who is a supporter of You-Know-Who, but the question is who?

The game gives you all these random tasks, most of which when you play the game is best if you have other people playing with you as Ron and Hermione, for usually the computers just stand around or walk too slow when you’re running from danger, unlike the other games where they run for the hills. Yo can have up to three people play, including yourself, and must find Triwizard medals in order to unlock new areas. Also, by collecting beans in this game, you can purchase cards that have shots from the actual movie, and when you go into each level, equip each player with a card if you bought on for them, for certain cards up your spell casting level, or increase your speed, etc.

However, you cannot just walk around the castle like you could in the other games! You can only go to the areas by picking them in the main menu, then completing a task there and gaining points or a shield, whichever you find first.

Overall, this game isn’t the best thing to buy.

We never used the game because it was said to work with a wii but you have to buy a special controller and card to make that happen. We were not willing to spend the extra $ to play this one gamecube game.

The kids like the game very much. Its easy to play and exciting. I bought the game to go with a gamecube I bought because they love Harry Potter!

I already owned CD-Rom version but wanted to plya multiple players on the gamecube. It's great for gamecube, players can drop-in or out as they need to without effecting the game. We fall fit abetter on the couch than huddled around the computer. There are parts that are a little hard to do or figure out what to do. Overall I liked it.

Got this for my 11 year old grandson. He LOVES Harry Potter. Say the game is fun to play but has moved on to another Harry Potter game already.