Quote:Amidst poorly translated Japanese, and innumerable statements of "I had a lot of fun working in this game, it is very cool," we were able to gather a few new tidbits of information about Pokémon Colosseum.
The developers repeatedly stressed that this is a completely new game. Pokémon Stadium and its sequel for the Nintendo 64 were really nothing more than extensions of the Gameboy game, allowing you to battle friends with your own Pokémon in 3D. However, Pokémon Colosseum goes one step further, adding a brand new 30+ hour long RPG adventure which makes the game stand by itself as a title, instead of just acting as an add-on for Pokémon Ruby & Sapphire. One developer even went so far as to say that with the inclusion of the RPG mode, Colosseum is really two games in one, and that should help attract people who have never even played a Pokémon game before.
Battles will still work the same as they always have. The two-on-two battles from Ruby & Sapphire are back, but there are some new concepts thrown into the mix that are completely new to the Pokémon world. The major new concept, as far as battles go, is the ability to snag other trainers' Pokémon. The mechanics of this have yet to be revealed, but we can assume it works in the same way as catching a wild Pokémon. The developers also mentioned a new feature called 'purifying' although they gave no details as to exactly what it is, or how it works.
As in Pokémon Stadium, your Pokémon can be uploaded to the game from the Game Boy version. A new feature in Colosseum though, allows you to use your Game Boy Advance system as a controller. This can give you an advantage when playing against human opponents, because your commands are input on the GBA screen, and aren't visible on the main screen.
Contrary to the fact that the developers specifically mentioned the target demographic hasn't changed, they did say the RPG mode is an 'older', 'darker' Pokémon game, and even the game characters themselves are older and more sophisticated. Although the roots of the game are still intact, this new adventure will be nothing like any of the games seen on a Game Boy system. The world in the game was actually designed to mimic pictures the developers had seen of Arizona. So we can expect a mostly desert landscape. They also mentioned the CPU opponents have been made significantly more difficult.
Every year 989 sports does a media event, called "Game Before the Game" with a player from each Super Bowl team, in which they play a game of NFL GameDay against each other. Every single year, the team whose player won the GBTG ended up winning the Super Bowl.
This year, it was between Steve Smith of Carolina and Troy Brown of New England.
Quote: The media and celebrities turned out in droves to watch the 9th Annual NFL GameDay Game Before the Game. Hosts Deion "Prime Time" Sanders and Pat O'Brien warmed up the crowd and introduced this year's players: Steve Smith of the Carolina Panthers and Troy Brown of the New England Patriots. The two players seemed a little nervous at first, a fact that Deion Sanders was more than happy to point out to all. But once the game got underway, both players showed that they had come prepared. The Patriots had gotten the ball first, and drove impressively down the field to score the first touchdown of the game on a run by Antowain Smith up the middle. However, Steve Smith of the Panthers answered quickly on the next drive with a touchdown of his own, on a powerful run by Stephen Davis. And the game was on.
A key play occurred midway through the second quarter. The Patriots had the ball and were driving to score, but then fumbled at the 5-yard line, where the ball was recovered by Carolina. Steve Smith quickly capitalized on this costly mistake and scored his second touchdown of the game, taking a 14-7 lead into halftime.
Steve Smith led his Panthers to another score to open the second half, and then took a big risk by going for 2 points on the conversion. He was successful and took what seemed to be an insurmountable 22-7 lead. But Game Before the Game veteran Troy Brown of the Patriots was far from finished, quickly scoring to make it 22-14. Steve Smith answered once again with another long run for a touchdown by Stephen Davis to go up 29-14. Things looked gloomy for the Patriots.
Troy Brown rallied once again and set up an exciting finish by scoring his third touchdown of the game, bringing his Patriots to within 8 points of the Panthers late in the fourth quarter. The Patriots then attempted an onside kickoff, but Carolina was able to recover it and then ran out the clock. At the end-game whistle, Steve Smith and the Carolina Panthers were the champions of the 9th Annual NFL GameDay Game Before the Game.
Final Score - Panthers 29 Patriots 21
So if history continues, this means I'll be happy tonight. Hey, GameDay might be a crappy franchise now, but the results don't lie:
Quote:All Game Before The Game Champions - All Super Bowl Champions
2004 Champion: Steve Smith, Carolina Panthers
2003 Champion: Keenan McCardell, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Fidel castro isnt a threat to the U.S and really isnt the worse dictator in the world , He doesnt have any genocide under his belt. Fidel castro can be a cooperative leader and he has helped for example in custody cases were parents kidnaped their kids and ran to cuba Mr Castro orderd that his country would not be used to child kidnapers as a saunctuary and helped return some kids to the U.S personally,Killing castro would be murder . I think their no reason to have Saunctions on Cuba because everyone else is trading with Cuba and he isnt building massive nukes with that money.
First Dead Phoenix died, then they made an online Resident Evil game for PS2, then there's the $40 price for straight ports of old games, and the somewhat mediocricy of P.N.03, and now?
I thought the GUI editor thing would be really cool, but it took over the signature editor too. I looked for a way to switch to code mode, but couldn't find anything. I hate to say it, because I sound like my whiny Unix professor who does nothing but make MS jokes all class, but I really prefer typing in the html myself so I can make the important little changes. Is there a way to make this an option, or is it already an option that I am too stupid to see, or is it not possible?
Speaking of which, has the stupid linked border always been around the Five Iron Frenzy pic in my sig? I'm sure I set the border to 0, and I never noticed it when I was using Opera at home, but here at school I am stuck with IE and now I see the border. So I don't know if it's a new thing or a IE thing or an Opera thing...
Quote:Following a week of media reports that, in addition to several new shows announced earlier this month, Cartoon Network would be adding Gundam Seed to its programming in late April, Cartoon Network has confirmed to ANN that they will indeed be airing the newest addition of the Gundam franchise and that it is scheduled to being on the Saturday Action block on April 17th.
AWN, points out that the late April premiere will roughly coincide with the release of the first volume of the Gundam Seed manga, due to be released by Del Rey on April 30th.
