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

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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 found the following review helpful:

Keeps getting better & betterJun 02, 2004
By shadowette
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 found the following review helpful:

WOW!Jun 21, 2004

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!! ^_^

8 of 8 found the following review helpful:

Very Cool For The 3rd GameSep 07, 2004
By 22gamelover
Hello, just last week I got a Gameboy Advance SP and 2 days ago I bought Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. I am underneath the whomping willow trying to find Ron right now and this game is so fun. I love it. I get all eye-bogged playing it for hours on end.

The graphics are very cool from the spell casting to the hair on Hermione's head moving when she walks! Its all very well done. The color is awesome in this too.

But don't let me fool you into thinking its all cool "LOOKING"...the game play itself is very cool! You have to go through the 7 floors to do different things like go to class, run errands, look for people/pets and all along the way there are places to get "goodies" like items to put on the characters to help them along their journey i.e: cloak, gloves, boots, gloves etc...very cool. I have all items for Harry and Hermione already. (there are 6 available item slots)also potions to get too and don't forget the chocolate frogs and collocters cards! If you get all the cards in a specific category (there are about 10) you unlock special things which can really help..i needed it to beat a baddie!(if you can't find them along the way just buy chocolate frogs from Fred and George, they're cheap and you get loads of sickles!)

This game is just so fun! I cannot believe how into it I am (even though I am a HP fan). Well I guess that's enough to go on for now, I hope i didn't give away too much on the game. But it's really good and I would recommend it! I am 22 and my step-kids aged 10 and 12 play it too and it's fine for kids but I think the older person would appriciate it more. But like i said kids are able to do it and would have a blast especially if they've read the book or seen the movie.

GREAT GAME, you must totally buy it! You won't regret it. I swear! OVERALL: FUN, COOL-LOOKING, CHALLENGING.

6 of 6 found the following review helpful:

Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azakaban GBA GameApr 09, 2005

Very good game, excellent quality. The game sticks to the book more than the movie does! Easiest to play when you start at the begining and work your way up to beat the game. I got the game a few days ago and already I'm on the part where you have to go back to Hogwarts when you come back from the Shrieking Shack. Some parts are tricky though and take a couple of tries to accomplish (i.g. Whomping Willow, Crabbe + Goyle, mazes, etc.).

The game is fun to play and can sometimes be addictive!!!!

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