Game name: Beyblade G-Revolution
Console: Gameboy Advance
Publisher: Atari
Developer: Atari
Genre: Action
Release Date: 26th November 2004
Video Review link: Click to go to the BeyUK Youtube Review page

So let’s start out with the story. The game begins with Tyson’s Weird Grandpa waking up, telling him it’s time to train. Once you get out of bed and find Grandpa, he eventually tells you about a Dragon in the family sword. Wait a second? When did that happen in G-Revolution? Didn’t that happen in Beyblade 2000? Any ways, you’ll find a lot of strange parts of the story in this game that had nothing to do with G-revolution, like later on when you must defeat a bunch of bullies in an ally because they’re stealing other kid’s bit beasts. Wait second again; didn’t Carlos also do that in Beyblade 2000? And there were never gangster kids that Tyson had to defeat in G-revolution. You’ll also find the most annoying part of this game is seeing Michael with the Beyblade Ultimate Frostic Dranzer and Kenny with a Draciel. Why couldn’t they have taken a little more time to do research and make them have the correct beyblades. Like I said, there will be plenty of more parts of this game that you might find random. Later on though, the story starts to sound more like the Anime when you finally get into the world championship, and eventually also when you must finally fight Kai. The story is okay, but not fantastic.

The graphics in the game are surprisingly good. Their comparable to the Pokémon advance game graphics, and much of the time you’ll feel as if you were playing some different version of Pokémon. So the graphics are overall good.

The game play is always the most important to any game. Battling in this game is what people buy this game for any ways. The game play consists of attacking, defending, combos, bit beast attacks, and using the engine gear. Attack and defending are similar in that there are 3 levels of attack. Blue, green, and then orange for the most powerful. If you have a successful hit or defend, you can then pull a combo with the d-pad of weak, medium, or strong. It makes no sense to have weak, medium, or strong different though because using weak all the time would be worse then using Strong all the time, which are just as easy. The Bit beast release is the most powerful attack and best part of the game. There are three levels you can release the Bit beast at, depending on how filled up in 3 levels your gauge is. The more filled up it is, the more powerful the bit beast. Unfortunately, almost all of the bit beast releases look the same and it becomes repetitive after a while, as does the fighting period. The engine gear is extremely hard to do, because you must hold B and A at the same time, and even still this never seems to work for me. If you win a match, you get the beyblade of the opponent, experience points, and credits to buy parts and beyblades. The more you battle, the stronger you get. You can also customize you beyblade in this game. This is one of the most important aspects of attacking and defending, because if your blade is stronger in a certain stat, it will not only cause much more damage, but you will also be able to cause damage more of the time to your enemy. If you upgrade, you could go from 25 attacks to 150 attack.

Overall the game is an okay game. For the average gamer, they may not find much with this game, and therefore shouldn’t worry about buying it now. If you are a fan of beyblade, I would check it out. The game is fun to trail back through the anime and lift your beyblading spirit. I give this game an overall rating of 7.0.