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Wii News by Tom Bramwell
The Wii version of Mario Strikers is due out on 25th May, Nintendo said today, and will offer online multiplayer via Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection.
As with Mario Smash Football and SEGA Soccer Slam, from which it seems to draw "some" inspiration, Mario Strikers: Charged Football is a fast-paced game of five-a-side that sees players performing acrobatic special shots once they've built themselves up to it.
That'll be true here, but there are some twists. "Super Abilities" are a bit more elaborate, with Mario blowing himself up to huge proportions to trample the opposition, and Princess Peach taking photos that freeze the other team to the spot. "Mega Strikes", meanwhile, split the ball into five separate spheres that have to be defended to avoid a goal.
Your chosen team captain will be the main "named" character, like Mario or Luigi, as usual, but you'll also be able to pick three side-kicks from eight offered based on their specific characteristics, potentially adding a bit of tactical depth to a game that usually revolves around the main players.
Control is much as you'd expect for the most part, with movement on the Nunchuk's analogue stick, but this being the Wii there are a few nods to the motion sensor, with Wiimote flicks used to body-check opponents, while Mega Strikes from opposing players can be batted away from the goal by using the Wiimote to block them with a set of on-screen goalkeeping gloves.
You'll also be able to take advantage of various power-ups, with fouled players given special treats to help avenge themselves, including red spiky shells, or a chain chomp that chases the opposition around the pitch.
As for the multiplayer - which is in addition, we should say, to a multi-tiered three-cup single-player game and an exhibition-style "Domination" mode - you will be able to team up with a friend in a group of four to play two-on-two games on one console, as well as going online to take part in ranked and unranked matches against people across the world, with global leaderboards keeping track of your progress.
The fact that you can play two-on-two offline led us to wonder whether you could do the same on that old Internet. Sadly Nintendo hasn't got back to us about it yet, but we'll be sure to let you know when someone does.
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RM2KMaster
03/04/07 @ 11:20
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No otherworldly characters in this Mario sporting game?
No Sonic? No Final Fantasy? No Max Payne? Nintendo is losing it... |
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richardiox
03/04/07 @ 11:31
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Is that May for PAL release then? I didnt think a US date had been announced and it seems odd to get ours before theirs.
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ryohazuki1983
03/04/07 @ 11:33
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pushed to may 2008 no doubt ;)
forget strikers how about mario kart online for the Wii - that would be nice! Wii needs some decent games, as much as i like the Wii I end up playing VC games and surfing the net when some1 is using the PC more than actually playing Wii titles. I was thinking of selling it and getting a US Wii, as games are released way ahead of europe and we just get forgotten about, i wanna play games like paper mario, thats released this month over in the US but we have to wait till end of november. Nintendo should be making the most of all the hardware sales and put out decent games otherwise all the hype will just die down and the wii will be forgotten about. Cmon ninty! |
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Ok, someone needs to explain to me why Mario has to appear in EVERYTHING that comes out of Nintendo? Can I really be the only one who's dead tired of seeing that fat plumber everywhere? Why can't they just make a great football game without Mario and shells and cute tomatoes and pink fairies in it?
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@ryohazuki1983
End of november for Paper Mario? Seriously? Where did you hear that info? I am wishing that I had gotten an American Wii now too! As for this game being released in Europe before the US - its probably down to the fact it is based on proper football and our cousins across the pond prefer to play their version fully armoured.
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ryohazuki1983
03/04/07 @ 11:43
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@QJ
I looked at the release dates on various online shops - amazon have it listed as end of nov, although I know that most of the time these are a shit source.... |
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The Bodybuilder
03/04/07 @ 12:03
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One of the main questions I was was whether the wii and the wiimote can do pro evo justice.
My question seems ot have been answered. |
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mostly_harmless
03/04/07 @ 12:16
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I love how this game is being dismissed without anyone having played it, just because it isn't Mario Galaxy!
Mario, a pick-up and play dynamic, and the usual sprinkling of Nintendo daftness. Sounds perfect for several areas of the Wii demographic. But of course, Nintendo should shelve such potentially profitable and relatively quick to produce games until an entirely different development team has finished work on a monstrously large and complex game on which much of the company's ongoing reputation hangs. Obviously. You know, this does remind me of my other big hobby (photography). I'm a long time customer of one of the few 'real' camera manufacturers left (who are also Japanese, also have a reputation for greatness tinged with marketing and supply inadequacies, and also begin with the letter 'N'), and they're constantly being hounded for just releasing 'consumer' lenses (consumer being the photoworld's equivalent of 'casual'), whilst delaying the 'pro' (read 'hardcore') glass. Not that that means anything, I'm just rambling in my old age. PS - Yes, where IS Super Paper Mario? |
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GrandpaUlrira
03/04/07 @ 12:23
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Mario Strikers was great with friends. The only people moaning are those who haven't played it.
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SuperGamerMatt
03/04/07 @ 12:53
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Why can't they just create a normal football game for Wii without fuckin Mario to make up for the lack of PES on the Wii???
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I don't really understand the Mario hate. The reason he works as a franchise is because 99% of the time, those games are good games.
I'd play a Mario-based sports game vs. an EA 'real' sports game any fucking day of the week. I find any sport transalated to game form fucking boring. If you like 'real' football etc, go outside. It just proves how ignorant some of you are thinking this is just 'a football game with cute characters'.
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gingerlink
03/04/07 @ 13:21
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so this is going to be our first online game?
you gotta think about it like that as well, wait, pokemon battle revolution comes in america in june, which is their first online game.... WE GET ONLINE WII BEFORE AMERICA!!!! 1UP!!!! *ahem* |
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Nintendo are spoiling us. Nooooooooooottttttttt. Can we skip all other games and just get Mario Galaxy please - after which I can then sell my Wii and buy a proper console.
Why don't you just sell your Wii now? CEX will give you £180 cash just for the console. Super Mario Galaxy won't be worth the price of a console and game; so sell your Wii and you could have £180 to go towards a PS3. |
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One of the main questions I was was whether the wii and the wiimote can do pro evo justice.
My question seems ot have been answered. You want to keep off the steroids mate; what kind of question is that? It's a pity that the 360 can't do PES justice; or it's a pity that Konami make poor PS2 ports. |
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The Bodybuilder
03/04/07 @ 16:31
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>"It just proves how ignorant some of you are thinking this is just 'a football game with cute characters'. "
You mean to tell me an arcade football game with cute gmaing characters, isn't infact a football game with cute characters? And you call us ignorant? Yet you somehow equate your dislike for sim-based sports game as boring? NEWSFLASH FOR YOU. Millions of people clearly disagree, and this is the same reason why people are still uncertain of the wii. It seems, even with the wiimote, ninty only cater to ninty fans. And if you're not a ninty fan then tough luck. |
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The Bodybuilder
03/04/07 @ 16:33
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>"It's a pity that the 360 can't do PES justice; or it's a pity that Konami make poor PS2 ports. "
Very true. Can't see what that's got to do with my comment, but still true none the less. |
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