Ahmed
BrentonAll things Pokemon
October 10th 2006 13:59
Ah Pokémon, how long has it been?
You can find heaps of stuff for kids at the official Pokemon website.
How about letting the little tyke battle it out with his or her own Pokemon at the ‘Pokemon Crater’. It features a battle system where you can battle other ‘trainers’ and a trading system. The first question you are asked upon signing up is your age, which probably helps the software tailor itself to the age group you select. The gameplay revolves around exploring a very crowded map with other real life people and either starting a battle with one of them or finding another Pokemon to capture. The battle screen isn’t all that it could have been, lacking in animations and pictures, but it gets the job done and is easy to get a hold of. While I have to say I am upset with the somewhat adult nature of their advertisements, I think children will be more obsessed over the Pokemon.
‘TPPC Online’ is also another online Pokemon RPG type game. It is more complicated than ‘Pokemon Crater’ and the little tyke will probably have to read a little bit of text to understand what he or she is doing, but it is still probably more than enough to keep him/her happy for a while. You might need to sit down with him/her and see if you can help them play. The battle system is very boring, the interface is dull and unintuitive. Depending on how much the little tyke likes Pokemon he/she may not enjoy TPPC very much as it is lacking in colourful pictures which ‘Pokemon Crater’ has lots of. It still is very Pokemon though.
Depending on the reading level of your child he/she might enjoy going through an interactive Pokemon story in Pokemon Journey. It simply is an interactive story, it does contain some light game elements, it really is just a nice interactive and colourful story for a six or seven year old boy or girl to go through.
Hopmon is a shareware Pokemon arcade/action game. It is shareware which means that it has a demo version you can play for free but is limited in functionality (in this case levels), however you can register it to gain access to all its functions for a fee. You can get it (and register it if you so desire) here.
There is actually a little free PC game someone made, you can get it here. It is a rather short game based on the all too popular 'Pokemon' series. Note you will also need something called Directx 9.0 installed on your computer to run ‘Pokemon PC’. You can download it here, make sure you install it afterwards too. Pokemon PC is fairly short and, dare I say, boring? The graphics are 3D and colourful enough to keep Mr/Ms Pokemon Fanatic busy enough for quite sometime based on how much they love the series despite it lacking in the gameplay department.
Point of mention about Pokemon PC, it is in a zip file, to unzip it so you can install/play it you should download winrar and install it. Afterwards you can right click on the zip file and click on 'extract here' to extract the files.
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