Previous 2-D Mario games could have all kinds of different levels that were tailored specifically to a single player, but New Super Mario Bros.

Wii entirely by yourself, it’s hard to shake the feeling that the other three players are missing. If everybody dies and there’s no one left to pop bubbles, you fail the level.Īlthough you can access any level you’ve discovered in the single-player game from the multiplayer menu, you can also go through the entire game’s main story mode with anywhere from one to four players, who can drop in and out between levels.īringing friends along for the ride seems like the optimal experience. If a player dies, he floats back a few seconds later in a bubble, which the other players must pop to release him. Everyone’s competing to collect as many coins as possible, and that means that you’ll be intentionally firing turtle shells at your pals.Īlthough I preferred Coin Battle, the cooperative gameplay also works well. In Coin Battle, all thoughts of working together to clear the game’s levels go out the window.

This goes double when you’re playing the competitive mode. You might be playing with three Mario experts, but the fact that you’re all stuck in the level together means that everyone’s carefully laid plans can be quickly thrown awry when one of your friends does something you didn’t expect - jumps over you and knocks you into a bottomless pit, nudges you off a platform, accidentally kicks a turtle shell at you.

Most of the time, that’s exactly what multiplayer New Super Mario Bros. Players can spread out quite far around the game’s levels and still be visible.īut this doesn’t mean it’s not utter chaos. Wii‘s main attraction, the four-player mode. The fact that the camera can zoom out so far allows for New Super Mario Bros.

These games feature 3-D graphics and 2-D gameplay, creating a world that’s less visually interesting than the best hand-drawn games Nintendo produced, but also much more malleable: The camera can zoom in and out the level can transform dramatically as you play. Wii, released this week for Wii, is largely patterned after New Super Mario Bros., an excellent 2006 title for Nintendo DS that brought the videogame company’s longtime mascot back to his roots.

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