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Mario Strikers Charged Football (Wii) | 
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| From: Nintendo
Category: Video Games
List Price: £39.99
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Rating:  58 reviews
Sales Rank: 613
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Genre: soccer-games
Rating: Parental Guidance
ESRB: Everyone 10+
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
MPN: RVL-P-R4QE
UPC: 045496900212
EAN: 0045496900212
ASIN: B000INV44U
Release Date: May 25, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: All items boxed with instructions and sent via Recorded Delivery.
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Product Description
Mario is joined by other famous Nintendo characters who take on the role of captain. Players then select a host of popular teammates to make up the rest of the team. Players form an original team by combining one of 12 captains with three of eight sidekicks before competing in one of the games many modes. Anything goes in Mario Strikers Charged as players are allowed to utilize a variety of special abilities to clinch important goals. Features: Each captain has their own set of skills, super abilities as well as the ability to perform special shots called Mega Strikes, where the iron ball splits up to five balls and flies at the goal. The defending player must use the Wii Remote to target and aim at and shoot these balls out of the air before they concede a goal. In this game players can also charge energy to the metal ball, making it more likely to find its target when fired at goal. Each of the stadiums in Mario Strikers Charged have various characteristics and contraptions, which influence game play. Players must learn to use this to their advantage to truly dominate the pitch. Multiplayer: Mario Strikers Charged will not only feature an action packed multiplayer mode but will also support the Nintendo WiFi connection service, allowing players to take part in tournaments with people from all around the world. Use the skill the Wii Remote and Nunchuk Controller provide to win the ball, score unstoppable goals and take control of the goal keeper to perform spectacular saves
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If you don't recognise the name, this is the sequel to Mario Smash Football on the GameCube (the name will likely change for the UK release). The original was one of the hidden gems on Nintendo's previous console, but this new game is not planning to be quite so coy. For a start it will be one of, if not the, first Wii games to be fully playable online, as Mario and his usual company of heroes and villains take to the pitch for some truly bizarre 5-a-side action. Although the basic rules of football are observed this is no serious simulation, with special moves galore and lots of Mario Kart style power-ups to pick up along the way.The game uses the analogue stick on the nunchuck to move, with the Wii remote itself being used to tackle by gesturing in the appropriate direction. There's no such thing as a foul in this game so not only do you take possession via a range of painful looking barges but you can also try and push an opposing player off the side of the pitch and into an electrified fence. Other elements not usually featured in the beautiful game include the "mega strike", which is a special move unique to each captain and which creates an automatic shot on goal which the other player has to save with the Wii remote. With football games becoming ever more serious and complicated this should please both sports fans and those simply looking for the next big multiplayer hit.
HARRISON DENT
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VERY good, but... March 13, 2008
Mr. F. Ghillani (UK)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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.
 Strikes the button February 12, 2008
Tachikoma (Birmingham UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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!
Mario Strikers Charge January 1, 2008
dodds (england)
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
i thought that it was really easy to control your players but very difficult to score
Amazing fun December 30, 2007
Mrs. C. E. Hall (UK)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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.
 Football with a difference December 21, 2007
John Evans (Teesside, England)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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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