Mario Strikers Charged, Great Control, Good Online, and a fun single player mode make this game worth the money.

User Rating: 8.8 | Mario Strikers Charged Football WII
By FoxMcCloudDS | Review Date:
Hello there fellow gamestopians, I am here today to give my first pre-release review for Nintendo's Wii system. When you first slide this game into your Nintendo Wii, and start it up, you will notice some similar things from the direct predecessor, Mario Strikers for the Nintendo Gamecube. One new thing is an all new online mode, this is possibly the most talked about new feature coming out of Mario Strikers Charged. You will still have your tutorial, and your vs. mode, but you will also notice Nintendo added an all new "Challenge" mode to the game. In this mode players will get to try to beat 12 very tricky challenges and mastering them all wont be easy. Mario Strikers Charged is noticeably more difficult then the first, but with the smooth control system, and the tutorial in the main menu, you will be striking your way to victory within the first hour of the game. Personally I was very surprised that Nintendo made some of the things in the game to unlock next to impossible. My favorite new feature Nintendo added to single player was the power skills that is specific to each character. Personally my favorite is when you get about 12 yards away from the goal with the hammer brothers, and throw hammers at the goalie then quickly shoots the ball in for the much needed point.

Now there is one question floating around that I have heard multiple times; Is Nintendo finally bringing good online gaming to the Wii? the answer lies within Mario Strikers Charged. Gamers around the world can go online and battle their friends using friend codes as usual, or the can use a search system similar to that of Mario Kart or Tetris DS. Unlike the DS games or Pokemon Battle Revolution, the search is very quick, and most people will pick up another player within 3-5 seconds. Nintendo also added a great new online leader-board right into the game. Now you will be able to see how you stack up against your friends and other gamers. Now with this being said nintendo is slowly moving closer to getting that great online community everyone has grown accustom to with Playstation Online and XBOX Live. Now we have saw him time and time again, as Mario hit's the golf course, the tennis court, the baseball diamond, and of course the battle field in the infamous Super Smash Brothers series. Mario Strikers Charged for Nintendo's Wii stands tall with all the other Mario sports games, and for fans of the series is a definite must buy. If you are new to the mario sports games series, this is going to be a great game to try out, because its colors truly do shine through the others as being my personal favorite mario sports game to date. I actually don't know if you would be able to consider Mario Strikers Charged to be a sports game, because it is so fun, and so action packed, it feels a lot more like Super Smash Bros. felt when it first came to the Nintendo 64. Mario strikers deserves a high score for being the first good online game for the Wii, and for kicking the snot out of EA's FIFA series. I give Mario Strikers Charged for the Nintendo Wii a 9/10.

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