Pokemon FireRed is a game boy advance version of the original, Pokemon Red. Its very fun, I mean the graphics are like 500 times better than just plain old Red, more animated attacks, houses & buildings look cool & of course the Pokémon are are like much more colorful than the original & the color is very dazzling the trees are green, the grass is sheen and all that jazz. the sound & music is no longer just ear cramming beeps & sirens, its fluid, even beautiful (the S.S. Anne), and kinda spooky (Mt. Moon).
The story really is not mind blowing, but this game is an RPG & like I said, its fun. You start as a a boy or a girl and a highly acclaimed Pokémon professor, Samuel Oak invites you & his snooty grandson to choose between 3 starter Pokémon (the seed dinosaur Bulbasaur, the fire lizard Charmander, the aquatic baby turtle Squirtle) and then go out into the world as a Pokémon trainer, capturing as much Pokémon as you can & raising them (thats what the game is really all about). As the game moves on, you can face very powerful trainers who have their very own gym, each gym leader revolves around a favored Pokémon type (Brock, he buffs up rocky Pokémon, Misty she likes watery Pokémon), when defeat a gym leader they will give you a badge, when you get all badges you can go to the Indigo Plateau. This game has carried traits from other raising Pokémon games (gold & silver, ruby & sapphire), like new attacks, new creatures, Pokémon abilities & more.
In the end of the game the are some exotic island to be explored, and of course these islets were not in Red (or Pokemon Blue, its new version is Pokemon LeafGreen). But there was something really fantastic about the old Red, I mean when I first played, it was really fun. I remember going going to the lake with my family and playing Blue while we were driving there, I was training a Metapod (a cocoon Pokemon) in Veridian Forest so it could transform into a Butterfree. Yeah, I know Red & Blue are glitchy and cheap, but there was something really fun about it.
