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Mario Strikers Charged Mario Strikers Charged
Amazon Price: $49.99
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Release Date: July 30, 2007
ESRB: Everyone 10+
Publisher: Nintendo
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Release Date: July 30, 2007
ESRB: Everyone 10+
Publisher: Nintendo
MiiPlaza.net User Rating:
(528 Ratings)
Amazon Customer Rating:
(41 Ratings)
MiiPlaza.net User Status: 357 currently playing of 870 owning the game
(528 Ratings)Amazon Customer Rating:
(41 Ratings)MiiPlaza.net User Status: 357 currently playing of 870 owning the game
Feels alot like the one for the GameCube though.
If it wasn't for the online mode, i would never got this game, since I don't like football games, but I really don't regret it!
Get it while it's hot!
Awesome
Wenn man es ein paar mal durch hat wird LANGSAM Langweilig.
Aber durch WI-FI behält man den Spielspaß.
First things first, this game has got nothing to really do with proper football. Yes, the characters do go around kicking the ball with their feet like you do in a 5-aside football game, but that's where the similarity ends.
No, this game to all intents and purposes is actually more akin to an updated version of Speedball 2 found on the old megadrive.
You basically choose a captain, two wingers and a defender (the goalie is always Kritter) and proceed to score goals by ANY means necessary. This includes pummeling opponents into submission, scoring 6 goals at a time a la megastrike, using special skills exclusive to each player to for example, become supersized and trample everyone, and also to use power ups available to all (eg firing off red shells at people).
So far so good, the game has that added Nintendo quirkiness and cartoon hilarity we've all come to expect of an in-house title.
Then we get to the (supposed) best part being the online multiplayer. There are two ways to play. Either with a friend whose code you've mutually entered into your consoles (I can't help but think the dev's mucked up here....rather than use our existing Wii codes, you have to remember ANOTHER code (this time 12 digits) that's entirely seperate and put THAT in instead just like DS online games), or online with a stranger in a ranked match.
This is both the pinnacle and the downfall of the game. The good parts are that when playing with someone else on your team, it's GREAT fun. One person acts as the striker and the other wards off opponents. The other good part is that it's good to FINALLY see Ninty get off their backsides and start up their much promised online system for the Wii. Little touches like always giving you points no matter if you lose, resetting the leaderboard every week, and being able to play against your mates in a "friendly" are great imo....
......BUT, then there are the many negatives. Firstly, if you play on your own, you don't really stand a chance either online in WFC, or offline trying to unlock characters. Even the AI cheats quite a bit (at one point whilst trying to unlock DK Jr I had NO players on the pitch at all......his UFO saw to that).
Then you have the "matching" system which is quite bad too. If I'm ranked somewhere around 5000th, why do I get a random rank game against someone who's ranked 20th? Apparently, your win:lose ratio matters here, but it doesn't seem to work at all.
Additionally, I would have liked the ranking system to take the number of players into account. If I am playing on my own, I would like to only play against other single players because it is virtually impossible to win against an opponent who has 2 players. Conversely, if I'm playing with a partner I'd like to play 2player opponents only as otherwise the matches are too easy for us (when we play aginst someone who is solo). Adding this factor would, I think, have improved things immensely (as it is you don't know if your opponent is 2 people or not, but it's easy enough to tell from their tactics when online).
In fact, you'll be lucky to get online AT ALL a lot of the time....far too many server or "failed getting stats" errors for my liking.
Then there are the Pansies (aka the Disconnectors) who are usually ranked quite high and seem to not like losing....so they DISCONNECT just before the match ends ensuring that not only do they not lose, but that I also do not gain a win against my name. Yes, this happens with any online service, wether PC/XBL/DS or whatever....but I seem to find it more and more here on this game on the Wii than anywhere else.
This means that things end up getting very frustrating rather than enjoyable....and when I stop enjoying a game, it's time to trade it in.
Don't get me wrong, I highly recommend this game if you're a 2 player party that can progress quickly through it, but as a single player and online it can get annoying, so it has to drop some points I'm afraid. I'd like to award it 3.5 stars, but will generously give it 4 out of 5 instead :)
I had never played the first Mario football (or Soccer!) game on the Gamecube and I never even considered buying this until it had been out for a few weeks.
It was only when it occured to me how curious I was to play games online with the Wii that I decided to get this.
It is so much fun but, to me, I don't know whether it's worth getting without the ability to play online. That's not saying it's bad but online is what makes this game as good as it is!
P.S. If you have the game and can play online, please feel free to add my MSC Friend Code. I'd really appreciate it if you did and it would be helpful if you sent me a MiiPlaza.net message telling me you've added me.
Thanks.
Im addicted im neglecting zelda because of it i think its the fact that im playin against other people and not just the computer
BUT PEOPLE WHO DISCONNECT IN A MATCH BEWARE!!!!!
(oh i think it minuses 1 loss from the suffering persons profile)
5 stars