Pok�mon Colosseum
Pokémon Colosseum is the Gamecube incarnation of the world famous Pokémon video game series. Pokémon Colosseum follows the Pokémon Stadium video game series.
The game was released in Japan on November 21, 2003, and was released in North America on March 23, 2004. Pre-orders for the game started on February 9, 2004 and those who pre-ordered the game were able to get a special bonus disk that contains the normally unattainable Pokemon, Jirachi, as well as a fix for the now infamous time/berry bug in Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire. Europeans saw the game released on May 7, 2004, but without a bonus disk.
This title features support for the Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire games. It will also feature support for the titles, Pokémon Fire Red, Pokémon Emerald and Leaf Green.
It does feature all 386 known Pokémon. The game does feature a first for the Pokémon titles, a brand new true 3D RPG that allows you to capture Pokémon that you couldn’t normally catch in Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, allowing you to also transfer them to Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire eventually. This includes Pokémon like Ho-oh and the Legendary Beasts Raikou, Entei, and Suicune. There is a rumor that you may be able to capture Celebi in the game, but currently, he only makes a couple non-obtainable appearances in the game. In Japan, people who pre-ordered received a bonus disk with various items and Pokémon, including Celebi. It also adds a new Pokémon type, Shadow Pokémon, which cannot be traded to any game until they lose their Shadow type.
While it is the first 3D Pokémon video game with an RPG mode, it doesn't allow you to use rental Pokémon, the way Pokémon Stadium did. This is probably done because you can obtain Pokémon in the RPG mode, thus meaning that you can still use most of the features in the game without a GBA game or rentals.
Pokémon Colosseum also puts significantly less importance on the non-RPG aspects of the game than Pokémon Stadium and Pokémon Stadium 2. For example, there are no minigames, nor is there a Gym Leader Tower, and there does not appear to be a "round 2".
This new RPG takes place in the fictional, arid Orre region, features “shadow” Pokémon and a brand new “team” (like Team Rocket of previous games). This team is attempting to turn all Pokémon into evil Pokémon and it’s the player’s job to stop them. In another twist to the Pokémon series, this will be the first game ever that you can capture (or snag as they call it in this game) Pokémon that is controlled by another trainer to later “purify” them.
While it will have limited storage ability, the other Gamecube game, Pokémon Box, has taken over the storage duties from the stadium games.
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