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Mario Strikers Charged Football (Wii)
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Mario takes to the soccer pitch once more, bringing his own unique 'fighting football' style for the first time to Nintendo's Wii console, with Mario Strikers Charged Football. In this follow-up to Mario Smash Football, you use the skill provided by the Wii Remote and Nunchuk Controller to win the ball, score unstoppable goals and take control of the goalkeeper to perform spectacular saves Mario is joined by other famous Nintendo characters who take on the role of captain. Then select a host of popular team-mates to make up the rest of the team, before competing in one of the game's many modes. Anything goes in Mario Strikers Charged Football as you can utilise a variety of special techniques to clinch goals. Each captain has their own set of skills and Super Abilities as well as being able to perform special shots called MegaStrikes, where the ball splits into six and flies at the goal. The defending player must use the Wii Remote to aim at and shoot these balls out of the air before they concede a goal. You can also charge the ball with energy, making it more likely to find its target. Each of the stadiums in Mario Strikers Charged Football have various characteristics and contraptions, which you must learn to use to your advantage to truly dominate the pitch.
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4/5 |
VERY good, but...
(March 13, 2008) |
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Mario Strikers Charged is an AWESOME game! A huge advantage is that you can play online, and it was the first online game you could play on the wii.
WHAT IT IS ALL ABOUT :
The very basics of football: you need to score more goals than you conceed, but with our nintendo characters as players and a no-foul policy. Also, there are crazy stadiums (some resembling obstacle courses!) and a ball that charges itself to give more power to shots and passes... (!)
This means each team has an artillery of weapons and moves in its different (or same) characters, who have individual skills and strenghts. The team is composed of:
a goalkeeper, same for every team, incredibly agile and quite unrealistic, making it impossible to score unless the ball is charged up or you use a super move/shot.
a captain, to choose from Nintendo's known characters: Yoshi, Donkey Kong, Mario, Wario, Luigi, Peach, and more. Each one has unique special moves and is definitely the person who makes the difference for his/her team.
3 "sidekicks", the three players who will compose the team with the keeper and captain. You can choose 3 same ones (e.g. 3 koopas) or tailor the team to your strategy ;)
SOLO EXPERIENCE:
You play tournament after tournament where you start off in a league and have to qualify to play the cup. Very good in that you can obtain golden boot (most goals) and defensive wall (goals conceded), and you unlock captains each time you conquer a tournament. The tournaments become increasingly harder the more you advance, and the next tournament will always be harder than the last.
MULTIPLAYER EXPERIENCE:
Genius idea, you can play against anyone, literally, and accumulate points depending on your result. Addictive!
PROS:
A bombardment of action, literally. You can do so much in this game sometimes you forget you are playing football and feel you're in a battlefield or in a wrestling ring!
Different approach to football games, very well made game and very enjoyable!
CONS:
(SOLO GAME) - unfair. Once you choose your team to start the tournament, you cannot change it in the following games. This is stressful because your opponents differ widely and so do the stadiums (some stadiums are quicker than others e.g. muddy) but you're stuck with the same team until you lose or you win it. But the most annoying feature of the solo game is not this, it is the fact that if you lose in the knock-out round, you're out, there is no continue or try-again, that is literally it, you HAVE to start again. (!!!!!!) This is the most stressing game i have ever played, because when you have played 12 games to reach a final and face an incredibly difficult scenario, if you lose you have to play another 12 to give it another go. This is ridiculous and this is why I have not given this game a 5 stars that it would deserve. I have to emphasise on the difficulty of the game being quite unfair the more you advance. The computer literally does not make a mistake, and knows where to score...
CONS:
(MULTIPLAYER) - a huge negative factor for the on-line experience is the childish people out there who clearly consider a video game to be the most important thing in their lives. I guarantee you will not find someone who owns this game that has not found themselves "disconnected" when they are winning or about to win a game and claim the victory and points. This is because the person you are playing against has unplugged their WII and caused the connection to crash, not counting the result so they don't get a loss, meaning you don't get the win either. Extremely unfair and stressful too.
for the UK readers - Online mode is for one player only,unlike the advertisement with the Arsenal player (ian wright?) suggests when he plays with someone else. This is false marketing!!!!!! One of my friends bought it EXCLUSIVELY because he thought he could play 2 players vs 2 players online...
Overall, i recommend this game because it is a classic and a must have. Be prepared for a bit of stress though.
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5/5 |
Strikes the button
(February 12, 2008) |
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Top class game. Mario Strikers is a 5-a-side football based (loosely!) game. It's sort of a tie between the Premiership and Aussie Rules and NFL all roled into one manic, wipeout-speed, violent football game.
To be honest, like any "football" game, it is better multiplayer, esp 4 players (fully supported), and my favourite at the minute is 2 player cup mode. Two players can go through all three cups as one team, like a cooperative story mode.
All modes of the game are thoroughly enjoyable, and don't disappoint for pure manic adrenaline filled fun. Shaking the wii-remote to tackle is a stroke of genius and really does make you feel involved in the game and the characters. And speaking of the characters, they all have different "powerups" that do different things in-game. Normally i hate games that try and make characters "different" and then when you play with someone who knows it really well it just ends up as a white-wash. But, i like these. They work well and there isn't a "winning combination", it's all very well balanced thankfully!
The only major negative i find is the difficulty level above 3 (out of 5) are incredibly difficult single player however this could just be my ineptitude... Bring it down a notch and its perfect!
So overall, brilliant game, multiplayer mayhem, single-player still very playable, get it! |
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4/5 |
Mario Strikers Charge
(January 01, 2008) |
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i thought that it was really easy to control your players but very difficult to score |
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4/5 |
Amazing fun
(December 30, 2007) |
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At first, I didn't think much of this game. But now after 3 or so days I LOVE IT! I can't stop playing it.
The reason I didn't give this game 5 stars was because it can be very frustrating at times. I have already thrown the wii remote to my head and nearly knocked me out due to being so mad. This game is a very fun game. It's really addictive and is a very well made enjoyable game on most occasions. It also can be very good on wi-fi, but again can be frustrating.
Highly reccomended and a must buy to all mario lovers out there + a really funny football game, a great game to play with the family.
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3/5 |
Football with a difference
(December 21, 2007) |
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Mario Strikers Charged Football is something that is extreme i mean it is hard the game starts easy and before you know your opponent is scoring 13 goals in less then 1 minute. If you remember Sega Soccer Slam this is kind of like that but with Mario characters.
This game looks ok and at times looks a little cheap but it can be fun the online mode is pretty good though i could never spend all day on it that would get boring.
The music is not bad but it is nothing special. I find the power shots annoying as your trying to play then goes into graphics where the player jumps so high and power kick or with their hands. Then the game puts you as the goalkeeper trying to save the ball is annoying because it puts you right off the game.
Other then this its an alright game i would never say it is the best game on the Wii because there is far better games believe me. |
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