Mario has proven his sporting prowess time and time again over the years, with numerous golf, tennis, baseball and even Olympic outings. And, as announced during Nintendo's E3 keynote, the Brooklyn-ite has a lot more juice left in him. Must be all those electrolytes!
Coming next year, Mario Sports Mix will see the plumber and his usual gang of Mushroom Kingdom cronies take on four more sports: volleyball, hockey, dodgeball and basketball.
Mario is no stranger to basketball, taking to the court in 2006's Mario Hoops 3-on-3 on DS. He's also put in some time with hockey and volleyball in GameCube's Mario Party 5. Dodgeball? Does Super Smash Bros. count? Stay tuned to Nintendo Life for more on this one!
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Awesome! Too many games I want!
Hoops 3 on 3 is my all time favorite Mario Sport game!
Hang on a minute. On the forums a few months back I said they should do a Mario and Sonic WiiMotionPlus Sports package. This is slightly different but nevertheless spooky!
Oh, and an insta-buy in all probability. I hope they release it in the UK unlike super sluggers.
Shame there's no wiimotionplus golf. I hope this is motionplus capable btw, to make it interesting....
It has to be the game Martinet was teasing on Twitter. Dodgeball FTW!
Mario meets Wii Sports I like.
I'm a big fan of Mario's sports outings, so this was a nice little treat. Volleyball in particular looks like good fun (though all of the sports seem to borrow heavily from Mario Hoops on the DS)
This looks fun. The sport in this that I'm most looking forward to is dodgeball.
Not interested :-/
@Jimmy712: It's just 1 game with 4 sports. Better now?
I usually try to avoid Mario sports games, but I think I may give this one a buy hoping there will be more sports games added to this.
This isn't something for my taste, i hate to play sports games with Nintendos characters if i wanna play sport i buy EA Sports titles with real world characters.
My sons have been playing a lot of Sluggers and Strikers lately (after topping out on SMG2 around 55 stars each) so this is a must own for us.
I think it's funny Sony was showing off beach volleyball on the Move right after this. Though I'm sure at some point I'll own the Move, maybe when it comes packaged with the PS4.
I'm still waiting for Mario Football.
Super Smash Bros. does count. If you can dodge a Bob-omb, you can dodge a ball.
I'm still waiting for Super Mario Sluggers (Baseball) !!
I like what i See. Love Mario Strikers, Tennis and Golf. Hopefully this will be just as good.
Best idea for Mario Sports
Looks fun!
Man, this is what I was hoping for... MARIO DODGEBALL!!!
Haha, dodgeball, never would've thought Mario would actually hit that sport. I'm looking forward to this one! I just hope it'll get here, unlike Mario's Baseball Wii game...
@Dragoon: Same. Where's mah Mario Football Nintendo? o:<
Anyways, I'll probably end up getting this one.
Looks amazing, buying this day 1.
Seems really cool. I'm not a fan of sports titles though.
@Klaupaucious,
My thoughts exactly. We'll see when the review drops.
Who´s developing this? If it´s an inhouse game I may be interested. If it´s Hudson or some third party... hm.
Nice choice of sports. All of them sound fun. Can't wait to show Waluigi what I think of him in the form of a dodgeball!
This really looks fun, Im pumped!
Mario's also been in hockey in Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games.
I'm So Getting This!
@ThatGuy: Square Enix!
Definite buy for me.
can they ever make a game like this online for the wii plz "mario party online , wii party online , mario sports online...
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