Mario Strikers Charged

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Mario Strikers Charged (in Europe and Japan Mario Strikers Charged Football) is Mario world's vision of football (soccer). In this game we play football while we throw items, tackle other players and use special moves to score up to 6 goals of one shot.

A simple football match is turned into an epic encounter between well known characters of the Mario world. Items, special moves and no rules turn the field into a battlefield. When you play realistic football games, you always end up with the urge to tackle other players, make special moves and even throw bombs at other players or leave banana peals laying around; Mario Strikers Charged allows us to do that and more. When a player makes a charged shot, he can make up to 6 shots and the opponent will have to intercept them with the Wiimote pointer.

A remarkable feature is the amount of available fields since the beginning and all the fields have some characteristic elements such as not having borders, which allows players to fall down, or having a giant block that will smash those who pass under it. You also have the classic inactive field in case you don't like when the field itself is an important factor in the game.
Each character has a special ability that's activated the same way the other items do, for example Luigi and Mario will grow giant and Donkey Kong will smash the ground.
Unlike the previous game (for Gamecube), in this case we can choose each of the secondary players, each one with different abilities. And as in the previous one, we can unlock different modes and special elements for the game as we advance in the game.
Design in the game is well done, it's a little bit mor grunge than the previous game and the soundtrack is pretty good, although I must say I prefer the previous game's.
To sum up, this is another Party Game you should have around to play with friends. It's recommended for the social player, but it also has the online feature. There are no restrictions, this game is just fun.