Pokemon Battle Revolution

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You say you want a revolution? You'll find nothing of the sort

Words: Raymond Padilla, GamesRadar US

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The other multiplayer option lets you and up to three friends duke it out on your television while controlling your Pokemon with your DS. This feature is more necessary than neat - battling would be pretty stupid if you could see what moves your opponent was selecting.

Viewing Pokemon Battle Revolution as its own game is a mistake. It only offers a few days worth of play on its own and isn't much fun at all to newcomers. The game is at its best when used as an accessory, albeit an expensive one, to Diamond/Pearl. Earning items in PBR and transferring them to your DS, properly training your Diamond/Pearl Pokemon and testing their mettle online in PBR -- these are the two areas where the game excels. Even though millions of people have purchased Diamond/Pearl, not all of them will be able to get the most out of PBR. We can't recommend this game for most players, but if you've sunk dozens or hundreds of hours into Diamond/Pearl and have your Wii connected to the Internet then it's a good, not great, complementary purchase.

You'll love

Fantastic looking Pokemon and attacks
Excellent goodies for Diamond/Pearl
Potentially challenging online play

You'll hate

Stock Pokemon are laughable
Fortune Battles are annoyingly stupid
Online options are lacking

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Thegoldshine - 11 months 30 days ago

I totally agree.

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Thegoldshine - 11 months 30 days ago

I think I will get it though.

I have spend more than 110hours on my game(that may not seem like a lot for hardcore gamers of PokeD&P) but for me, that is a lot of hard spend time.

I have decently groomed pokemon, which know pretty good moves.
(Although that IV and EV stuff is too hard for me to grasp.)

One of my accomplishments that I am proud of is that in Pokemon Diamond I caught Dialga with a Ultra Ball(No Lie-NO Action Replay).

Ok well thanks.
~Thegoldshine~

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behx2011 - 9 months 8 days ago

well i reeeeeeally wished i had read this review before i ended up spending 50 dollars on it! now i just feel quite dumb. i don't own a DS so i pretty much just wasted my money....i thought i would be like Pokemon Colleseum or the other game that was for the gamecube that was pokemon i really wished they wouldn't have gotten rid of the adventure like the other two games...im really pisssed off about this

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