xtreme_power - Changes in Fire Red and Leaf Green compared to the originals:
- Improved graphics and sound.
- Stacks of info on how to play the game, move info etc..
- Compability with Colloseum, Ruby/Sapphire and presumably Pokemon Box.
- Wireless link adaptor support.
- 9 new islands (click
here for island images and info).
- Various mini games.
- Pokemon learn different moves.
- Obtainable moves/pokemon from Gold/Silver and Ruby/Sapphire (Move tutors).
- Ruby/Sapphire features (e.g. genders, breeding/eggs, 2 on 2 battles, playable female character, shiny Pokemon, Pokemon special abilities and personalities, battle tower).
- Other slight changes (for example after you battle the Elite Four for the first time they change their Pokemon).
As for differences betwen Fire Red and Leaf Green these are the exclusive Pokemon in each game (taken from some GameFAQs page):
Fire Red Exclusive:
Ekans, Arbok, Oddish, Gloom, Vileplume, Psyduck, Golduck, Growlithe, Arcanine,
Shellder, Cloyster, Electabuzz, Scyther, Wooper, Quagsire, Bellosom, Elekid,
Scizor, Murkrow, Qwilfish, Delibird, Skarmory.
Leaf Green Exclusive:
Sandshrew, Sandslash, Vulpix, Ninetales, Bellsprout, Weepinbell, Victrebell,
Slowpoke, Slowbro, Staryu, Starmie, Magmar, Pinsir, Marill, Azumarill,
Slowking, Magby, Misdreavous, Sneasel, Remoraid, Octillery, Mantine, Azurill.
Fire Red looks a lot better IMO...
Anyway the game. Yeah glad to see it out in English... not that the Japanese version was hard to play seeing how the storyline and most of the game is the same as the originals.
I'm tempted not to play this through seeing how I've already played through the Jap version and will pick this up on it's official US or UK release, not to mention have played through the originals too many times to count, but I somehow can't resist not playing through this. Pokemon may have lost a lot of what it had going for it back in it's day but the games are still fun to play...