It looks pretty cool to me. I can't wait for more pre-release shots!
I'm definitely calling for Onyx/Ivory/Chrome when it hits stateside.

What?

Not sure if you've played other Pokemon games but the whole game revolves around the idea of a young boy from some little town going off to great cities to beat the best trainers in the world.

It's never been a game where each town is meant to be a village.

Goldenrod? Meant to be a huge city.. That's why people all over Johto talk about it.

Heck, the game has a high speed cruise ship and you're worried about too many cars? lol

I love those shots and my thinking is that this is the first year they've figured out how to use this sort of tech to have all this good stuff. It just sucks we won't see the game till next year.

Looks ok. Hopefully Nintendo will try something new and make it different.

I bet that nobody will agree with me, but I think that a Custom Robo-like battle system would be great for Pokemon. They still have their four moves and HP, EXP, but you control them completely. It would be a great twist for the series, anyway. It would be a day 1 purchase for me if they did that.

That would be awesome, RWP. I might actually buy another Pokemon game if they did that.

Agreed.

That would be fun, except that it would no longer be a sweet turn-based RPG game :/

... I hate turn-based RPGs though

I wish they would leave Pokemon alone. Just for 1 year.

So, sort of like a fancy pokemon rumble? I might like that...
_{I think I'd like it even better if you could choose the battle system you wanted to use!}

I think they should change the Battle scene aside from just two pokemon standing face to face and unleashing particular moves to lower the HP of the opponent. let's see how they can improve this.

Loving the look of this. I wonder though... given that GameFreak have said previously that they have 3DS development kits, and given the lower angle and total 3D employment here (DPPt and HGSS used 2D when inside most buildings), could Black and White be a game to 'bridge the gap' between the two consoles? Like when Oracle Of Ages/Seasons came out, putting it in a GBA would open up a special GBA-only shop. So whilst this is marketed and released primarily on the DS, reckon we could see it in real 3D when plugged into the 3DS? That would be awesome.

I would probably end up buying one if it was like that.

scans
http://www.serebii.net/index2.shtml

why should they? they're not going to change the basics of what makes pokemon pokemon. clearly they can't do 600 different pokemon in 3D.

Woah, Dice! Those scans are pretty cool. I can't wait for these games!

I think this just may contribute to the world ending in 2012.

finally, there will be some way to know which unnamed NPC is talking to you.
looking very good!
i just hope they dont end up making a whole industrial region filled with cars, giant buildings and pollution...

How I feel about Pokemon nowadays:

LOL