A role playing game similar to all the other main Pokemon titles, the story for Pokemon: Emerald takes place over land and sea and pits you against the Team Aqua and Team Magma from Saphire and Ruby. This time around, Pokemon will show off their moves prior to battle, perhaps as a sort of taunt.

Nintendo also added some new options to the game. A new Battle Frontier area has you play through seven big battles. The Battle Dome places you in a tournament in which only three Pokemon can participate. The Battle Tube has you select from three entrances and attempt to make your way to a goal.

POKEMON EMERALD displays the same respectable quality of graphics as displayed in previous Pokemon games and players will feel as if they are in a Pokemon episode or comic book. As with the television series, Pokemon would not be complete without the appropriate corresponding sound effects from characters and battles and this game does not disappoint. In addition to the expected features, POKEMON EMERALD is the first Hoenn Pokemon adventure that lets the player trade and battle wirelessly. The player can experience all new areas and exhilarating plot twists. From foreign neighborhoods to choosing from three Pokemon, begin the quest to become the world's best Pokemon trainer. Practice, skill, and intuition are key in balancing strategy, craftiness and reasoning to win. Both experienced and novice Pokemon fans and trainers can find the opportunities to develop and utilize these skills in preventing imbalance in the world. Each area that is entered before the final battle is an exercise in training to perfect the skill needed to achieve the ultimate goal.