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Let's Give Nintendo A Round Of Applause!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: February 08, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is positively one of the greatest games you could hope for. The graphics are excellent, and the pokemon look great! In Stadium and Stadium 2 I thought the pokemon looked kind-of weird since they were in 3-D, but in Colosseum, the graphics are great, the pokemon look awesome, the special effects are stunning! There's also pokemon's first ever 3-D RPG- where you can steal pokemon from evil trainers- a first for the pokemon series. Overall, this game is great. I can't wait for it to come out.

Pokemon Colosseum Rocks!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: April 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Though I don't have a GameCube, I can say that Pokemon Colosseum is really, really, really fun to play. I've read a lot of reviews about it and it really makes me really want to have it. :-) Well anyway, with its new Story Mode and some new concepts(like Snagging), this makes this game pretty unique. In the Story Mode, you'll play as a character--(sorry to say) a Pokebandit. Your mission is to save "Shadow Pokemon" from wicked trainers by Snagging(this is done by battling) and bring them back to their senses using Purification. Now, how do you know if you've encountered a Shadow Pokemon? Well, there will be a girl who'll join you in your journey and her job is to spot a Shadow Pokemon for you. Ok, the Battle Mode... It's either you'll connect your favorite Pokemon from Pokemon Ruby and/or Sapphire and see 'em larger than life in 3D or use the main character then battle them with your other friends; or challenge the main character for yourself. Well, if you wanna know more about it you gotta play this game. :-) I think that's all I can say about it. :-)

A Wonderful game, but doesn't measure up to past Stadiums

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: January 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game has two modes-both of which i have extreme feelings about.

The first mode is Story mode,which I won't expose too much.Basically,you travel around the all new Pokeregion of Orre where you collect and purify Team Snagem's evil,shadow Pokemon.I must say,this mode is amazing.As a past reveiwer said,it would be great to be able pick the main character's gender,but since you get a boy and a girl to play it's not so much of a problem.This mode is also highly addictive,and you'll want to keep training and battling the baddies.Full marks here,though it does feel a bit like a gameboy game.

Next is Battle mode,which is pitiful.It's supposed to be in the format of past Pokemon Stadiums,but there are no rental pokemon.For me,this is a huge drawback.My dad and I used to enjoy a rental battle-fair,equal and we get to pick any pokemon we please.As is,Colosseum requires you to load your team from Ruby/Sapphire to fight (which I'm guessing is a pitiful attempt to boost Ruby/Sapphire sales and the special device required for the transfer).Battle mode is a bomb.

All in all,Pokemon Colleseum is great.It's a bit of a drawback to not have the cute little mini-games though...Oh well.This is still a must for Pokefans everywhere and-if you can just enjoy the roleplay mode-you won't be dissapointed.

This game ROCKS!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: July 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

THIS GAME IS AWSOME!!!!! I've played it before, and it ROCKS! Pokemon lovers will absolutly LOVE this game, just like I did! ^^

It is best to get the bouns disk combo.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: February 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

It is best to order this game with the free bonus disk.
The game with the bounus disk is listed as a seperate item than the game by itself. It is best to get the combo.

THE BEST GAME @THE MARKET!!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: February 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Hi im here to review this game.The bonus disc is awsome i loved it,
but is nothing compared to the real game.i can not wait to get it has everthing rpg,download pokemon from gba games.it is cool i
recomand buying this game for any rpg or pokemon lover

I was expecting more...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: May 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Pokemon Colosseum is a terrible game. It does not in the least measure up to the Pokemon Stadium games for the N64. The menu is small and uniform, which makes it feel, quite frankly, boring.

What happened to the Cups?! No Pika, Petit, Little, Prime, Challenge, or Poke Cups are to be found in the game. Instead, all they have for you is a 100 trainer knockout challenge and Colloseum modes for level 50 and level 100 Pokemon. There is no variety anymore. Forget the mystery gifts, hall of fame, and even the kids' corner! I don't know about you, but the stupids Kids' Corner games saved me from blowing a fuse when I lost an important battle.

The story mode is absolutely terrible. You play as that strange, grey-haired guy on the cover and have an annoying red-head follow you around that identifies "shadow" pokemon. The shadow pokemon concept is very unimaginitive. There are pokemon whose hearts have been closed. Steal them from their trainers to make them good again. Basically, its an excuse to make you use all the Pokemon you get, whether you like them or not. Everybody knows that there are quite a few Pokemon that absolutely suck in battle, and, unfortunately, you get some of them in to purify in story mode.

The only good thing I see about getting this game is the fact that it is in 3-D. Finally seeing my Swampert annihilate the foe on my TV is very entertaining. But graphics alone (and even the graphics aren't a big improvement from Stadium 1 and 2) is not a good incentive to buy an obviously sub-par game.

A decent RPG, but it's no Pokemon Stadium.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: April 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

When I bought this game based on positive customer reviewers telling me that it was just a better Pokemon Stadium, I was stunned to find that Pokemon Colosseum is actually a huge step *down* from its N64 predecessor. Here are few examples:

- Stadium allows you to play your Pokemon Gameboy games directly on the N64--at twice or even three times the speed, if you desire. You are not able to play your Pokemon Gameboy Advance games on Colosseum--at all.

- Stadium allows two players to directly trade pokemon with each other. Colosseum does not include this feature.

- Stadium allows you to deposit and withdraw pokemon into boxes (which are stored on the game). Colosseum does not include this feature.

- Stadium allows you to categorize, index, and search your pokemon in a virtual lab. Colosseum does not include this feature.

- Stadium includes several mini-games. There are none in Colosseum.

- In Stadium, there is no waiting time to upload your pokemon from your game. Colosseum takes about ten seconds just to connect. (Note, too, that those connectivity devices need to be purchased separately.)

- Stadium allows you to register several parties of pokemon to battle in various competitions. Colosseum allows you to register just one single party.

- In Stadium, your victories earn you new pokemon. In Colosseum, your victories earn you items--none of which are particularly useful, and most of which you have already acquired if you've already played the Gameboy Advance games. (The only new-to-Colosseum items available are berries.)

Pokemon Colosseum has just two improvents: the graphics (a given in its new platform) and a Story Mode, a basic RPG which is similar in concept to the Gameboy pokemon games featuring Gamecube-level graphics.

The Battle Mode is, by far, the biggest disappointment--primarily because of the limitations listed above. In addition to that, however, are a few problems that just plain make it unenjoyable. It seemed like every trainer I fought had at least two or three items or moves that slightly affected something or another every single turn; and because the computer spends six or seven seconds every turn just to announce these (often insignificant) weather and status conditions, the battle becomes interminable. I believe the first battle I tried lasted forty minutes--and they want me to do ninety-nine more. Forget it!

Overall, the only reasonably decent thing about Pokemon Colosseum--the Story Mode--just isn't worth your time or your money. Do yourself a favor and pass this one up.

Buy it if you must

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: August 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Well, the game is good but it could be better. It would be exellent if the player (A strange guy from another demension kind of way looking) could find and catch pokemon in grass and water instead of snaging them from people with dumb names(trust me there weird and very wrong!)Anyway, also the shadow pokemon( the pokemon you can steal) are in their second form!?! What is with that, I mean COME ON!! One day I battled a female trainer name Duogo( DUMB NAME. WHAT WERE THE MAKERS THINKING!)And she had a Flaffy which was a shadow pokemon. I would have liked to have a mareep but I have a Anforos now level 47. And the Tranatar you can get at the end of the game, why didn't they make it a Pupitar or a Larvatar. But then again it is the main pokemon you catch. I give it a 9/10. Sorry that i didn't say anything about the colleseum battles cause i don't play that part.

Not worth the money

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 8 / 21
Date: July 08, 2006
Author: Amazon User

OK, here goes.

Gameplay.

You walk around, talk to people and battle them. Pretty new to the Pokemon games. That was sarcasm to the little kiddies here that gave this game a five and said "OMG THIS IS THE BEST POKEMON GAME EVER!!!11!1one!1eleven" anyway, back on topic. Then there is the battle system. Horrible, uses double pokemon in every fight. This was good in Ruby/Saph. but only because it was rare. Now it takes the strategy and fun out of the battle.

Sound

Music was TERRIBLE. It started to give me a headache given the repetetiveness. It went on and on witht the same horrible sound. It IS however different in every town, I will give them credit for that, but they are all HORRIBLE.
Battle sounds were decent, but what did you expect.

Graphics:
The pokemon looked good, the environment, and the humans, looked horrible.

Story:
OK, there is NO story. Its about you, taking pokemon from people. Would be good if it had an actual story. There are interesting henchmen wearing suits simmiler to a power ranger. Then there are the awsome bosses including a person with very sharp fingers, a yellow disco suit and a half red half white afro, a large man whom i can only assume is part monkey, a very strange version of princess peach, a scientist (nothing wrong with him), and a person whom I can only assume is wearing purple spandex and a short hula skirt.

Oh, and on a side note(s):

I have more proof to backup my opinion, this is what a reviewer said...

"im a pokemon trainer but i havnt played this game yet, but my opinion would have to be that this will be the greatest game i have ever played in my life and im only 11!!!!!!!!!"

To the kid who said he would "Wait for NINTENDO to release something Pokemon on Xbox or PS2"...Bravo.

By the way, anyone who says its for kids, I am 15 (yes, old enough to have been there when pokemon red and blue were first released. Unlike half the reviewers). I didnt enjoy it. My 9 year old brother didnt enjoy it.

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