Pokémon Colosseum (With Free 59 Slot Memory Card) (GameCube)

Pokémon Colosseum features a range of battlegrounds, ranging from out in the middle of Petalburg Woods to within a giant stadium with thousands of onlookers. You choose to fight the battles either against the computer, a friend or in a team battle with four people, but whatever you decide suddenly your Pokémon and all their amazing moves will be in super realistic 3-D--they look even better than they do in the cartoon. Using either the GBA or the normal GameCube controller makes the battles really come alive as you fight for honour or one of the many unlockable secrets.

The only problem with Pokémon Colosseum is that it's out so long after Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, but if you can wait that long this an absolute must-have for any Pokéfan. --David Jenkins

Overall impression? - rather good so why are you still reading this...buy it!


pokemon colosseum   December 19, 2004
 10 out of 12 found this review helpful

This game is great for pokemonfans.Pokemon colosseum is about snagging pokemon and purifing pokemon with your two best pokemon (Espeon and Umbreon).Pokemon colosseum has two modes story is about snagging pokemon and purifing them and colosseum battle is where you can battle in colosseums or challenge mt.battle(mt.battle is where you have to face 100 trainers and defeat them)or you can link up with your friends and battle each other and get pokecoupons to exchange them for rare items.And you can trade with the gameboy advance games Pokemon ruby,saphire,fire red and Leaf green.


Pokemon Gotta Snag em all!   December 8, 2004
 6 out of 15 found this review helpful

i got this 31st may 2004 and its briL!!!!!!!! Tjis game is all about a boy an evil boy whon works for team snagem but he betrayed them stole the snag machine and went off to save pokemon. He finds a girl which you name and she can spot shadow pokemon the pokemon that have been snaged and turned evil. wow.
your job is to find the shadow team making shadow pokemon and destroy them. wow. you fight master ein, venus, miror and dakim also the hardest one i found hard, evice the evil mayor of phenic city. wow. no its not just. wow. its brilliant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! . wow. tahts mostly that but the hardest person is your imposter the hardest thing to do is purify every single pokemon but theres an award ................... ho-ho!!!!!!!!!!!!! the legendary bird but first you need to complete mt. battle. wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.wow. o by the way go on runescape.com. gotta snag em all!


Not as good as hoped.   November 25, 2004
 5 out of 7 found this review helpful

I think the thing that really attracted me to the original game was the fact that you could capture (not steal) over 149 pokemon. Although, this is still, one of the better games on the gamecube-despite me being rather critical of it.

The game sees you, an ex-pirate who has left his group on a journey (another one!) The plot is essentially that some evil group have been making shadow pokemon! You need to steal these pokemon, which your lady friend can see, and bring them back to their senses. Unfortunately, plot wise thats pretty much it, but there is plenty to do, dont get me wrong.

Graphically, this game is good. The locations are genuinely big and really reflect the nature of the area through the music. The pokemon are well modelled and genuinely look and fight well, but as with most games in this era, the looks aren't the be-all and end-all of it. The gameplay is what stands out. So there are only 60 pokemon AND NO STARMIE DAMN YOU! But the fact you REALLY have to fight for them (and die) is what makes it so rewarding. You now fight with two pokemon at a time, and this actually works well. HOWEVER, the computers pokemon are incredibly hard to capture, they can break out of super-balls with incredible ease, and this adds to the frustration. There are various gyms you can go to, TMs to unlock and an incredibly 100 battle arena that becomes increasingly more difficult as you go on. Along with that, there are the colleseums to go to. Putting it bluntly, there is a lot in this game that will keep you coming back for more.

So whats dissappointing-the fact that most of the hardcore fans of the original will be dissappointed, that only a few appear from red, blue and yellow, but they're nearly all from silver, gold, ruby and saphire. For those of us with a poorer memory that means even more names to remember, and for the action fan amongst us, this game is still turnbased and you have to wait whilst the computer takes its go, it can turn into a game of chess more or less.

Other than that, its good. Worth adding to your collection