Pokémon Colosseum

"...even with the lack of gameplay variety in its quest, Pokemon Colosseum is one hugely challenging game, and it has enough originality, not to mention a whole assortment uniquely catchable creatures, in its design to encourage both newbies and veterans alike to experience a new style of Pokemon adventure."

"Although it doesn't boast as many activities as its two predecessors (Pokemon Stadium One and Two for N64), Pokemon Colosseum still has the charm of the older games. Colosseum is missing the mini-games and rental Pokemon (Pokemon instantly prepared for battle) that children enjoyed in the two Stadium games. Our younger testers missed these two features, while an older tester found Pokemon Colosseum more engaging because of the new-to-GCN story mode. The lack of a rental Pokemon feature can discourage younger children from battling more experienced players."

"The plot is all about cursed Dark Pokemon that can't be trained like normal ones and only certain psychic humans can tell them apart from the real thing."

"Colosseum largely gives fans what they want, which is lots of real freaky-looking monsters and lots of battling."

"Nintendo finally gives us the 3D Pokémon RPG fans have been waiting for... sort of."