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Gotta Save ﾑem All! Pokemon Colosseum is a lot like Pokemon Stadium. You battle Pokemon in 3-D. In other Pokemon games, you walk around battling foes, going to the Pokemon Center, and savingﾅ a lot! Though it is a lot like the Pokemon Stadium games there are also a lot of different things about it. Pokemon Stadium featured nothing but battle after 3-D battle, no exploration or anything else from the Game Boy games. But Pokemon Colosseum is different. Well for oneﾅ you actually walk around! Yes, itﾒs true! One of the major things about Pokemon Colosseum is that you walk (or should I say ride) from town to town. The only thing is that by the time you get to know the game, youﾒll probably get tired from walking everywhere. The one player story mode is the main thing about Pokemon Colosseum that separates it from Stadium. Even though this is much like the Pokemon games for the Game Boy, itﾒs still like Pokemon Stadium. This game combines the Pokemon games from the Game Boy and the ones from the N64 all in one great game. Though the story mode is very cool, it seems much darker than the other games.  In story mode you start off as a guy who is a former member of sinister Team Snagem who has gone off of his evil ways to, you guessed it, save the world. Team Snagem is using dark Pokemon to perform their evil acts. As a professional Pokemon trainer you meet up with a girl who can sense the dark auras in Pokemon. With a portable Snag Machine that you stole, you must capture Pokemon whose hearts have been tightly shut and purify them back to normal and stop Team Snagemﾒs dream of taking over the world with their Shadow Pokemon. If you saw the commercials for Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire they talked a lot on the two-on-two battles when you only battled that way in the game about three times! But in Pokemon Colosseumﾒs story mode, everything circles around two-on-two battling. In every single battle itﾒs two-on-two. Though this is a big thing in this game it makes the game play a little harder. You have to choose which Pokemon to hit what Pokemon with what attack, who to focus your big attacks on, and how low you want the opponentﾒs Shadow Pokemonﾒs HP (hit points). For those of you who forgot or are new with a Pokemon game hereﾒs how you catch a Pokemon. Since there are no Pokemon in the wild you can only catch Shadow Pokemon. 1. You lower the Pokemonﾒs HP down into at least the yellow zone (unless you have a Master Ball which catches a Pokemon no matter what). 2. You throw a Pokeball (either regular, Great, Premier, Ultra, or Master Balls) at the weakened Pokemon. 3. The Pokemon struggles to get out and either you catch it or it breaks free of the Pokeball and you have to try again Even though this process can be a little frustrating it pays off in the end. Shadow Pokemon are Pokemon that have gone through a strange machine that closes the door to their hearts and turns them into mad and aggressive beasts. What makes a Shadow Pokemon different is that the only move it knows when you first catch it is ﾓShadow Rush.ﾔ This move is a very aggressive move that is so head-on that it hurts the Pokemon that used ﾓShadow Rushﾔ. By repeatedly using ﾓShadow Rushﾔ the Shadow Pokemon may go into ﾓHyper Modeﾔ. A Pokemon in ﾓHyper Modeﾔ has a greater chance of getting a critical hit when using ﾓShadow Rushﾔ while the downside is you canﾒt use any items on them and you have to call them to make them snap out of it. The graphics and sound are pretty good. In the areas you go through they get all the shading and details really great! Though the only gross thing is the slowly dripping slime in one of the creepier areas. The sound is pretty good, though when you have to go to the same place over again sometimes you get a song or two stuck in your head. The game play is a lot like other 3-D RPGs. You walk from place to place and you often you have to go back to a certain spot and heal your Pokemon. The only flaw with this game is that you have to play at least one of the other games to really understand how to play, but if youﾒre an experienced player I would have to recommend that you take a look at this game, after a while you may want to play it again and again. Besides the one-player mode there is a battle mode where you can load your team from Ruby and Sapphire onto the game to battle more like a multiplayer game using a GBA and link cables. To make things real fun you can have teams if you have three Ruby or Sapphire games and one saved team from Pokemon Colosseum. You can also play in the colosseums that you have played in the game. Though I think the one-player mode is more entertaining, having your Pokemon from your Ruby and Sapphire games battling in 3-D is pretty cool.  Kid Factor: Thereﾒs a lot of reading required so younger kids would need help reading all the instructions and text throughout the game. Though there is Pokemon fighting each other the violence is very mild, like Pikachu using Thunderbolt on Squirtle. The theme is much darker than the other games, but not enough to give a kid nightmares. The big thing with this game is that to get how to play you would have to play one of the other games. Jeffrey Orth is an 11 year old Pokemon expert, and is one of GamerDad writer Cary Woodhamﾒs younger brothers. Reviewer Recommended Ages: 6+ Genre: Kids ESRB Rating: E for Everyone Producer: Nintendo Developer: Genius Sonority Format For Printing | Tell A Friend | Digg | Slashdot | del.icio.us Home > Review Archive > Video Games > Results: Pokemon Colosseum |
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