New Super Mario Bros. Wii

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Platform	Nintendo Wii
Release Date	12/11/2009
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Super Mario is the reason platform games exist today, and New Super Mario Bros Wii follows the same formula from 25 years ago.  You have to get from one point to another, defeat or dodge different enemies, evade traps and collect power-ups along the way to assist you in your journey.  But the best feature of all – up to three of your friends can join you on your quest.

So gather your friends or family together and have fun.  New Super Mario Bros Wii will provide you with hours of entertainment.

New Super Mario Bros. Wii Product Information

A Classic Mario Adventure that Everyone Can Enjoy – at the same time
Developers at Nintendo have dreamed of creating a simultaneous multiplayer Super Mario Bros.™ game for decades. The Wii console finally makes that dream come true for everyone. Now players can navigate the side-scrolling worlds alone as before or invite up to three others to join them at the same time on the same level at any point in the game for competitive and cooperative multiplayer fun. With the multiplayer mode, the newest instalment of the most popular video game franchise is designed to bring yet another type of family entertainment into living rooms and engage groups of friends in fast-paced Super Mario Bros. fun.

Features:

• New Super Mario Bros. Wii offers a combination of cooperation and competition. Players can pick each other up to save them from danger or toss them into it. 
• Mario™, Luigi™ and two Toads are all playable characters, while many others from the Mushroom Kingdom make appearances throughout the game. Players can even ride different Yoshi characters and use their tongues to swallow enemies, items and even balls of fire. 
• In some areas, players use the motion abilities of the Wii Remote™ controller. The first player to reach a seesaw might make it tilt to help his or her character reach a higher platform – or might make it tilt incorrectly just to mess with other players. 
• New items include the propeller suit, which will shoot players high into the sky with just a shake of the Wii Remote, and Mario’s new ability to transform into Penguin Mario. 
• At the end of each stage during the coin battle multiplayer mode, players are ranked based on the number of coins they have collected.

New Super Mario Bros. Wii Review

The best thing about New Super Mario Bros. Wii is that it takes the best aspects of past games in the series, and using a 25-year-old formula it feels fresh. It feels like the original Super Mario Bros, combined with SMB3 and Super Mario World. The best aspects of the DS version have also been retained, and the game’s big hook, 4-player co-op, is the new kid on the block. In a way it almost feels like it has been 25 years in the making. With every new Mario platform game Nintendo tweaked something different, and made slight adjustments. It's hard to believe Nintendo developed the last side-scrolling Mario 15 years ago (well two if you count the DS version of the same game, but we're talking consoles here for effect). 

Super Mario is the reason platform gaming exists today, and why it was so popular last decade. Your aim to get from point A to point B within a time limit in a side-scrolling 2D world. Along the way you’ll encounter a range of different enemies and acquire interesting power-ups to use against them. The world itself is one big puzzle with traps, warp pipes, bottomless pits and giant metal spikes just a few of the environmental issues you’ll have to find a way around.

New Super Mario Bros. is played with the Wii remote on its side to replicate a NES controller. Most of the game is controlled using the D-pad and the 1 & 2 buttons. A small amount of motion control is used in conjunction with one of the two face buttons; pulling the Wii Remote up with certain power-ups will trigger a spin attack, while the same motion while holding down the 1 button will pick up a nearby item. The motion controls are simple, and exactly how they should be. They don’t over complicate the otherwise basic control scheme, which is perfect for a game that requires you to make split second decisions. If you’re dashing through a stage at full speed the last thing you need to worry about is which button(s) to push, when you have less than a second to judge if Mario can make the jump. Due to the NES-like style of the Wii Remote and the basic motion controls New Super Mario Bros. Wii feels a lot like the original NES/SNES games, and that’s exactly how it should be.

New Super Mario Bros. Wii is the perfect example of taking a classic game series, finding the best from each instalment and putting it all together to make something special. The single player is exactly what veteran Super Mario fans have been waiting for, while the multiplayer is great with a couple of mates, and even better for gamers new to the series. New Super Mario Bros. Wii is a must have for any platformer fan, and the must have Wii game this year.

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