Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness GameCube game

Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness

2005

Overall rating: 3 out of 5

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If you?re an avid Pokemon trainer then you?ll be used to conducting your adventures on your handheld system. The only time you?ll have been able to battle with your beasties on bigger Nintendo consoles is when using the Pokemon Stadium or Colosseum on N64 and GameCube respectively. Would you be excited, then, if you knew that there was an all new Pokemon capturing, training and battling RPG coming to the GameCube? We?d certainly imagine that you would. Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness is the real deal, and the first time that the ?Cube has played host to a bona fide Pokemon RPG. Gale of Darkness takes you to the world of Orre, and you are charged with solving the mystery of Shadow Lugia. Journey the land challenging trainers of the dark Shadow Pokemon, who once captured, or ?snagged?, must be purified before you can use them. You?ll remember the sinister CIPHER organisation from Pokemon Colosseum, and once again you must get to the bottom of their plot. As well as the Shadow Pokemon you can capture regular Pokemon, and even wild Pokemon, previously thought not to exist in the land of Orre. So, you?ll soon have quite an array of fighting beasts at your disposal, though at first you?ll have to make do with just Eevee. Pokemon fans brought up on the sprite based stylings of the Game Boy and Game Boy Advance are in for a treat with full 3D graphics showing the animals and world in their full glory. And the storyline is involving and exciting ? just what you?d expect from a Pokemon title. As well as all this, you don?t lose the multiplayer gameplay you?re used to on handhelds ? the game also has a multiplayer mode facilitating play for 2 and 4 player battles.

Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness details

Format:	3 GameCube
Players:	1
Genres:	Adventure, Role-playing, Strategy
Developers:	GENIUS SONORITY
Rental release:	Currently unavailable

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Yawn

By a customer from Hampshire , 20 Apr 2006

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If you've played Pokemon Colleseum then you know the score with this one.

Run around, solve puzzles, Snag Shadow Pokemon, Purify there hearts and so on. It's not that it's a bad game, it's just that it's so similar to the orrginal that it's really not worth playing, unless you really want to get involved with the story. Even that didn't really hold my attention as it was far too similar to what ahd gone before, including a lot of characters and locations. I don't even think there were any new Pokemon to speak of.

This is really only for die hard fans of the series and personally if this is any indication then I think Nintendo need to put this one to bed and stop flogging a dead horse.
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By Hellkat (2 reviews) , 02 Jul 2012

Please can you get a hold of this game, I love everything to do with pokemon and already have pokemon colloseum on nintendo gamecube!!!

Please get it soon
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Yawn

By a customer from Hampshire , 20 Apr 2006

If you've played Pokemon Colleseum then you know the score with this one.

Run around, solve puzzles, Snag Shadow Pokemon, Purify there hearts and so on. It's not that it's a bad game, it's just that it's so similar to the orrginal that it's really not worth playing, unless you really want to get involved with the story. Even that didn't really hold my attention as it was far too similar to what ahd gone before, including a lot of characters and locations. I don't even think there were any new Pokemon to speak of.

This is really only for die hard fans of the series and personally if this is any indication then I think Nintendo need to put this one to bed and stop flogging a dead horse.
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