a good installment in a franchise that will JUST NOT DIE
Like every other pokemon game this one starts with you getting a free Pokemon form your small town professor and starting your quest. What is your quest? Thats hard to narrow down because there is just so much to do in this game that it's awesome. You can become the ultimate pokemon trainer and defeat all 8 gym leaders to move on to the elite 4, perhaps you'ld rather enter your pokemon in a contest to win ribbons or maybe you just want to complete your pokedex and well you at it "Catch em' all!"
The developers went all out with this game including tons of fun things to do. Innovative things like the 3D touches to the graphics and the poketech (a watch that takes up the bottom screen which has several applications that are fun to play with) really make the game shine. They also including online play, which is good, but jumping through hoops just to get to talk with the trainer your facing isn't really worth it.
I haven't played a pokemon game since Pokemon Silver and I'm am throughly impressed. A game with hundreds of hours of enjoyable game play for $44 (Cdn) is definitely a steal!