Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Review

NOTE: This game was available for all the above consoles, but this review was specifically made for the PC version of the game. Some of the things said in this review might not be true for the other consoles.

What can I say? Nothing to complement this game enough. I am absolutely speechless. This game is just too close to perfect that I needed to give it the perfect rating. Not enough tweeks to give it 1/2 rating short. First, let’s start with the discussion on the introduction and the tutorial.

What can I say about the introduction? Short, sweet, and to the point. It explains the plot fairly breifly, yet fairly well. On the train, with your friends, and then finally, you see Ron’s incompetence once again, as he fails to be able to train his rat. With that said, We know where to go from here.

The tutorial comes right after the introduction, and it explains the game rather well. You walk down the cart, cast Alohamora, apparently use a ‘new’ spell called Depulso (I guess it takes the place for Flipendo), and discover that you play as all three companions throughout the game(you play as Hermione in this cart). After this cart, you turn into Ron, cast together, Lumos, walk through the revealed area, and get into your first encounter with some flying books, but they’re tougher than…okay, nevermind, they’re weaker than they seem. Afterward, you walk into the creatures’ caridge, where you meet the wannabe-Malfoy. You get attacked by the ‘monsterous-looking book’, and then in the next cart, you finally get Scabbers, then if that wasn’t enough, you get attacked by a Dementor. After you survive that, it’s off to Hogwarts.

Remember the last game that I reviewed? This one stuck even more to the story. Only three challenges, and plenty of stuff in between. Not much more to say.

The graphics in this game had to improve from the last game, otherwise they would not have been able to get the Dementors to work. But they went beyond the recommended point. The best place to find good graphics is the corpreal Patronus at the end.

Sound was very much improved as well. The sound quality was the farthest thing from what we got in the first game, meaning the voices were not muffled, and the effects were not distorted. There is way to much to say about this, but I must leave it as-is.

You have good, then great, then excellent, then gameplay. No words were ever invented to describe how well-made this game was. Other than saying, “It could not have been better,” I cannot say anything.

Well, so far the scores go like this: 3 – 4.5 – 5. Unfortunately, the fourth game really disappointed me.

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