NMS: Pokemon Battle Revolution impressions

by David Hinkle { May 25th 2007 at 12:10PM }

Our overlords at Joystiq got their hands on the upcoming Pokemon Battle Revolution while at the Nintendo Media Summit, which takes place on an island called Poketopia, which has ten different Colosseums to battle in. Of course, the object of the game is to become the biggest and baddest Pokemon trainer. Nintendo encouraged people to control the game with their DS at the show, as well as upload their own captured critters from Pokemon Diamond & Pearl for use in the game.

Nothing much else can be reported, however, as Joystiq lets us know that the game looks impressive and is chock full of the classic Pokemon gameplay. We expect to see you online come June 25th when the game releases in the United States.

Gallery: Pokemon Battle Revolution

Tags: nintendo, nintendomediasummit, nintendowii, nms, pokemon, pokemonbattlerevolution, wii

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

scuzy @ May 25th 2007 3:23PM

is that release date for canada too? tell me it is. please please tell me it is!

Phil @ May 25th 2007 1:04PM

Uhm, the gallery is all sorts of broken.

David Hinkle @ May 25th 2007 1:24PM

How so Phil?

Dave

Mr Khan @ May 25th 2007 4:16PM

Are those real render models?

If so, that's pretty rockin' virtually no obvious polygons there

But i give this game a "meh" for concept, especially since the actual DS game has wireless battling

I have some friends who are rediscovering pokemon right now, though, and a few of them are really after this

Nushio @ May 25th 2007 4:42PM

Phil's right. I can see no images when clicking on the gallery.

I really don't know the point of this game, besides random online battles. You can't even voice chat with your opponent, thats a huge minus for me.

The $50 bucks price tag is just the opposite of icing on cake.

JC Fletcher @ May 26th 2007 1:11AM

Mr Khan: the concept is "the N64 games, but on the Wii." Pokemon Stadium was itself exceedingly meh.

Rei @ May 26th 2007 1:48PM

"Our overlords at Joystiq got their hands on the upcoming Pokemon Battle Revolution while at the Nintendo Media Summit, which takes place on an island called Poketopia, which has ten different Colosseums to battle in."

wait....the Nintendo Media Summit takes place on Poketopia? And there are ten different Colosseums? What kind of summit is this? ;-)

Mr Khan @ May 26th 2007 4:20PM

@ JC

yes, but back then, you needed to buy a cable to battle with friends at all on the GB versions

Pokemon Stadium/Colosseum made the peer to peer battling experience relatively easier, but now that the actual game has easily accessible online battling, its no longer necessary (unless you just want the challenge)