E3 2010: Mario Sports Mix Coming Next Year
Posted by Jon Wahlgren
On his way to conquering every sport ever played (Updated with trailer!)
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!
#1
Jimmy_721 said:
Awesome! Too many games I want!
#2
Jimmy_721 said:
Hoops 3 on 3 is my all time favorite Mario Sport game!
#3
LEGEND_MARIOID said:
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....
#4
TwilightV said:
It has to be the game Martinet was teasing on Twitter. Dodgeball FTW!
#5
Splat said:
Mario meets Wii Sports I like.
#6
Kid_A said:
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)
#7
FonistofCruxis said:
This looks fun. The sport in this that I'm most looking forward to is dodgeball.
#8
irken004 said:
Not interested :-/
#9
Klapaucius said:
Why do we need this? We already have Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games. And Wii Sports Resort.
#10
ToastyYogurt said:
@Jimmy712: It's just 1 game with 4 sports. Better now?
#11
HappyHappy said:
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.
#12
Rusty_Nail said:
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.
#13
rjejr said:
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.
#14
Peacock said:
I'm still waiting for Mario Football.
#15
MetalMario said:
Super Smash Bros. does count. If you can dodge a Bob-omb, you can dodge a ball.
#16
SKTTR said:
I'm still waiting for Super Mario Sluggers (Baseball) !!
#17
dres said:
I like what i See. Love Mario Strikers, Tennis and Golf. Hopefully this will be just as good.
#18
Rhansley64 said:
Best idea for Mario Sports
#19
Kidpit said:
Looks fun!
#20
Terra said:
Could be fun, but with a lot of the other stuff coming, I actually don't care much for this. We've had our fill of Sports games already, so I thought Nintendo would've stopped by now. Nevermind, this will still sell pretty well.
#21
MasterGraveheart said:
Man, this is what I was hoping for... MARIO DODGEBALL!!!
#22
Yosher said:
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...
#23
Waymores_Blues said:
@Dragoon: Same. Where's mah Mario Football Nintendo? o:<
Anyways, I'll probably end up getting this one.
#24
LinktotheFuture said:
Looks amazing, buying this day 1.
#25
TheLonelyGamer said:
Seems really cool. I'm not a fan of sports titles though.
#26
Token_Girl said:
@Klaupaucious,
My thoughts exactly. We'll see when the review drops.
#27
That_Guy_from_Faxana said:
Who´s developing this? If it´s an inhouse game I may be interested. If it´s Hudson or some third party... hm.
#28
Fuzzy said:
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!
#29
93jam said:
This really looks fun, Im pumped!
#30
TheKingOfTown said:
Mario's also been in hockey in Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games.
#31
LuigiandYoshifan said:
I'm So Getting This!
#32
KnucklesSonic8 said:
@ThatGuy: Square Enix!
Definite buy for me.
#33
Gameday said:
can they ever make a game like this online for the wii plz "mario party online , wii party online , mario sports online...