"Clear for Contact"

This fall, prepare for the game that all of Japan is raving about, Contact. You play as a young boy known as Terry, who has been dropped into a mysterious world by a strange professor who's ship has crashed.

Terry goes along in an average life when all of a sudden a strange ship falls from the sky and crashes into you. In enters the professor who is in a never ending battle with an evil group known as the Klaxon army. Immediately, the professor recruits you and your abilities to recover strange green gems, known as power Cells, in order to return to his home planet before the Klaxon army reaches them first. Without a second thought, you are dropped onto a deserted beach, and sent into the world to learn the customs, adapt to the environment, follow the path you choose, and help destroy the klaxons, with a little help from the professor's trusty canine who will follow you and learn from you.

With an adaptable system and alterable environment not seen since Fable, Nintendo has gone out of its way to make amazing games. All surroundings, living or inanimate is destructible, and is a key role in choosing your path. From the beginning, you are given the choice between helping people and destroying the army and its monsters and becoming a hero, or murdering the people and becoming the most feared force of evil. With jobs in between such as chef, ninja, fisherman, and more, which give special abilities that come with each, and are important and changeable throughout the entire game as you unravel the mystery. How did he get there, who is the professor and the klaxon army, and what do they want the power Cells for.

Also announced is a special Wi-Fi enabling you to cross paths with others like you, and become friends or foes. Almost creating the first MMO designed by Nintendo and for the DS.

With pastel back drops, and amazing boss battles and monsters, its easy to say that this will be a classic, but we'll have to see later this fall, when it arrives in America.

Reviewer's Score: 9/10, Originally Posted: 07/10/06