Online soccer goes supernova with Mario Strikers Charged July 30, 2007
New Controls and Wi-Fi Features Give Nintendo’s Soccer Smash a Wicked BoostREDMOND, Wash., July 30, 2007 - It’s gonna take more than a good pair of shin guards to protect Mario™ and his turbo-kicking teammates in Mario Strikers Charged™, Nintendo’s blistering new soccer title for Wii™ that launches today. Earthquakes, firestorms and electric shockwaves are just a few of the otherworldly hazards in this ball-chasing battle royal. And with players from coast to coast competing online, this wildly unpredictable pitch is for neither the faint of heart nor the heavy of foot. It’s not just soccer, it’s soccer - Mario style.
Mario Strikers Charged introduces nine sensational new stadiums, plus a host of new characters with their own special abilities and power moves. Players create their own teams by mixing and matching captains and sidekicks, then use the Wii Remote™ and Nunchuk™ to face opponents in single-player or multiplayer modes. Mastering Striker Challenges or the tournament-styled Road to the Striker Cup will unlock new elements and cheats.
The excitement extends beyond your living room as Nintendo® Wi-Fi Connection, Nintendo’s wireless gaming service, enables players nationwide to meet and compete online. Participants are ranked using a positive structured points-based system, and rankings are reset to zero each week to keep the competition fresh and fierce.“Mario Strikers Charged incorporates unique Wii controls such as flicking the Wii Remote to tackle the ball from your opponent or using it to block shots on the goal,” says George Harrison, Nintendo of America’s senior vice president of marketing and corporate communications. “There’s no better way to keep a game challenging and fun than to invite more people to join the action. With Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, we’re creating a real community where players at any experience level can take part in the fun.”
Mario Strikers Charged is rated E 10+ for Everyone 10 and Older. For more information about the game, visit www.MarioStrikersCharged.com. Remember that Wii features parental controls that let adults manage the content their children can access. For more information about this and other Wii features, visit Wii.com.
The worldwide innovator in the creation of interactive entertainment, Nintendo Co., Ltd., of Kyoto, Japan, manufactures and markets hardware and software for its Wii™, Nintendo DS™, Game Boy® Advance and Nintendo GameCube™ systems. Since 1983, Nintendo has sold more than 2.4 billion video games and more than 420 million hardware units globally, and has created industry icons like Mario™, Donkey Kong®, Metroid®, Zelda™ and Pokémon®. A wholly owned subsidiary, Nintendo of America Inc., based in Redmond, Wash., serves as headquarters for Nintendo’s operations in the Western Hemisphere. For more information about Nintendo, visit the company’s Web site at www.nintendo.com.
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I went to get this today; but the local GameStop is getting it tomorrow. Looks awesome.
I`ve been calling my local walmart and game crazy, but they don`t know if it arrives tomorrow or until the weekend!!! I can`t wait anymore!! Does someone already has it?
The game is definately good. My friend bought it about last month.
[...] Mario Strikers Charged introduces nine sensational new stadiums, plus a host of new characters with their own special abilities and power moves. Players create their own teams by mixing and matching captains and sidekicks, then use the Wii Remote™ and Nunchuk™ to face opponents in single-player or multiplayer modes. Mastering Striker Challenges or the tournament-styled Road to the Striker Cup will unlock new elements and cheats. (more…) [...]
i can’t wait for this game i have it on pre order and im gettin it tommorow can’t wait to play online
Well.. I’ve had this for months now (living in Europe) and we’ve been playing it with friends. One thing that is painfully clear from the start is that the single player campaign (you can play it with friends too though) is insanely hard. There are 3 cups and by the time you get to the second it’s all blood, sweat and tears. It’s also very unforgiving, if you lose in the final knockout rounds you have to restart the entire cup having lost over 45 minutes of hard “work”. After the final knockout rounds there’s a boss match as well with a best out of 3 system in effect and if you lose that… you guessed it, back to the start.
The online play is OK and you can play with your friend on your Wii against someone else and their friend which is nice but about 30% of the connections over the Internet have been bad so much that the game starts lagging. 30% is a lot. The game rates the connection before you start a match against someone and asks you if you wish to play at all with that connection. Often even if it says the connection is 4 stars it might disconnect you. And no, the problem is not with my router.
Anyway, it’s a fun game with an insane amount of buttons (the new special “multi shot” done by your team’s main player breaks the flow of the game a bit but all in all it’s not too bad) but the campaign mode being overly hard really killed it for me. Why didn’t they go the same direction is Mario Kart for example and have difficulty levels (you clearly can set a difficulty level yourself in normal VS matches) for the campaign mode?
All in all it’s quite cool but I’d give it 7/10 for the difficulty and so-so online play. Plus it kind of ends short unless you have friends to play it with a lot. Doesn’t really work as a party game either because players who are picking it up for the first time will have no chance against those who played it before. The fps also suffers a bit at times when the camera goes to show the audience around the stadiums but that doesn’t matter a lot. However, if you set your camera back as far as possible for the matches (and that way is clearly the best to see where your players are) there are some visible vsync tearing problems. Kind of like Heavenly Sword or Ninja Gaiden Sigma for the PS3. I hope vsync doesn’t become an issue for console games..
What I’m saying is get the game if you want but it’s not the best soccer game around and definitely not the best mario game. Although it’s not like the Wii itself has a lot of those currently.
I’ve had it for a couple of months, too. And although I haven’t played it as much (because I got some other games), I think it kinda rocks. My connection has always been good when going online and getting my @$$ handed to me.
I agree with what you said about the difficulty level, though. itwould have been nice to be able to select a difficulty level.
But all in all, I would give it an 8/10.
Yeah, reading back on what I wrote, I must clarify that I’ve played maybe 30 online matches all in all (give or take a few) and might have just had bad luck with the unstable connections. But as you said, there are some really good players out there who really seem to dig the game so hooray for them
Continue rockin’.
I’ve had it for about month now (I live in UK). Its a brilliant and fun game, my friend and I have had lots of fun playing online as a team. I’d give it a 9/10.
I already have it!!! Friend Code 232034 974502
Add me and send me your FC too.
i also have it and its a great game, my info, mario strikers code: 141840 660406