Pokémon Rumble Blast (2011) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Pokémon Rumble Blast

Pokemon Rumble Blast, the first Pokemon game created exclusively for the Nintendo 3DS system, is an action-packed Pokemon adventure in 3D! Battle against waves of opponents, connect and play with friends, and…

58 11 August 2011

What Pokémon Rumble Blast is

Pokémon Rumble Blast is an adventure game developed by Ambrella and released in 2011. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo 3DS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Pokemon Rumble Blast, the first Pokemon game created exclusively for the Nintendo 3DS system, is an action-packed Pokemon adventure in 3D! Battle against waves of opponents, connect and play with friends, and collect more than 600 different Toy Pokemon! As you advance through each stage in Pokemon Rumble Blast, your Toy Pokemon will face dozens of Pokemon at once in fast and furious real-time battles! You'll also run into giant Boss Pokemon, whose massive size and strength will make them especially tough to defeat and who can become powerful allies if you're lucky!

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It supports multiplayer. Local play supports 2 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Pokémon series

Pokémon Rumble Blast is the 174th of 306 entries we hold in the Pokémon series. The next entry was PokéPark 2: Wonders Beyond in 2011. Its critic score of 58 is 16 points below the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Super Smash Bros. Melee at 100.

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How it was received

Pokémon Rumble Blast holds a critic score of 58 out of 100. That places it above 14% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored 10 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Pokémon Rumble Blast launched on 11 August 2011, within three weeks of Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Tropico 4, Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor Overclocked and From Dust. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Tropico 4, Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor Overclocked, From Dust.

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