Wii Mario Strikers Charged Football

[Rev]

Could anyone point me to where I can get this game for a good price?

I am really eager to get it but everywhere I go its at £39.99!!

Anyone know if this is £30 in Tesco?

I got my copy (after much searching due to it being out of stock everywhere from Toys'R'Us for a few pennies short of £28.

I then had to hunt a nunchuk after forgetting to buy one and ended up having to ask in every store in Ealing, only for them all to be out of stock except Dixons. Which had no Wii peripherals or consoles and only two games on the shelf. But several downstairs. That is how to run a business!

[Darren]

Anyone know if this is £30 in Tesco?

Yes it is.

[scottcr]

online works tonight!

two mates up tonight - played it - loved it.

[kensei]

I fucking hate megastrikes. And shit environmental harzards. Especially when I'm one goal up, randon lightening hits me in the last ten seconds giving the opposition enough time to do their megastrike thing. I'm shit enough as it is >_<!

[scottcr]

well - the other guy has the same problem, you should've taken your chance to megastrike him earlier!

[kensei]

well - the other guy has the same problem, you should've taken your chance to megastrike him earlier!

Well, he wasn't hit by a random bolt of lightening at just precisely the perfect moment.

[mogawoods]

I love the environmental hazards! The lava pit's probably my favourite stadium. Nothing like two random pools of magma to slow a match down, give my reeling brain some much needed breathing space.

[Warszawa]

I'm really enjoying this, and it's probably the first online game that I'm actually really good at. Ordinarily, if I face off against someone with a top 500 ranking in a game, I know that I'm in shit and will get hammered....not so here. I go into every game expecting to win, which is a first, and a fair amount of my "losses" are down to the servers being shit / cunts disconnecting because they know there's a chance Nintendo's revolutionary online system will hilariously gift the win to them.

I was playing against the ultimate Hammer Bros. spammer earlier, a bald, bespectacled man called Greg. His record was suspiciously decent, so I expected that he'd have some sort of trick. Needless to say, he only scored using the aforementioned characters. Time after time he'd use them to score, and while I've got the hang of tackling them during their move, it gets a bit crushing when it's the only thing someone can do - I actually don't normally mind the move and use it myself within reason - It's no more annoying than, say, Toad or Diddy Kong going through on goal and jumping over the keeper.

So, my series against Baldy came down to the final second of the third game. Try as he might to score a winner with his one and only move, he couldn't quite find a way through and it was rather beautiful to me when I scored with half a second remaining...with Hammer Bros. 8)

Does anyone else find themselves barely using the remote-flick challenge now that they've spent more time with the game? It was a key move to me at first, but now it's more or less irrelevant - the normal slide tackle is so much more effective and ten times more rewarding as you smoothly come away with the ball and launch a counter attack.

[scottcr]

The waggle-tackle is handy to use near the edge of the field, allows you to ram your opponent onto the electric fence or, even better, send them flying off of the park. I managed to get 3 of my opponents characters off of the thunder mountain park at the same time... made it nice and easy to get a lovely big sixer mega-strike.

One thing this game demonstrates (along with Zelda) is that how comfortable the split controller is for traditional games.

[rjpageuk]

Does anyone else find themselves barely using the remote-flick challenge now that they've spent more time with the game? It was a key move to me at first, but now it's more or less irrelevant - the normal slide tackle is so much more effective and ten times more rewarding as you smoothly come away with the ball and launch a counter attack.

It party depends on your team, even with a poor tackler the shove move has great range. If you have a good tackler however then stealing the ball is generally the best option.

There are some key times when a shove is the move of choice though, specifically after dry bones/koopa/toad have managed their skill shot and taken the GK out - you can shove the offending attacking to prevent him shooting into the open net. Or against high pass spammers - if you shove the person about to receive the high pass you can get the ball back, it is often difficult any other way.

It is quite common to play against mass shovers online where your opponent does little but shove every player at every given opportunity. It is quite a pain playing against these people but the key is to use your items often as you get so many of them! Items add tons of depth to the game and I am finding now they are the source of quite a high % of my goals (and hence why at the more advanced levels people shove a lot less!)

[Earl]

Wow, talk about a huge jump in difficulty. The last cup is an absolute beast, won the first 2 games and thought I was in for an easy ride, but I lost the next 7. Some by as much as 6-0, either I forgot how to play for 7 games or this is really bloody hard. Anyone beat it yet?

[rjpageuk]

I cant seem to beat Diddy in the final of the second cup

[mixed]

Personally I never use the tackle move. Although fine for the odd Toad leap over the keeper I find the D Pad is just not quite close enough to be moving my thumb up there all the time to tackle.

I really get into swiping the wiimote to smash people over or into electric fences aswell.

[rjpageuk]

Wow, talk about a huge jump in difficulty. The last cup is an absolute beast, won the first 2 games and thought I was in for an easy ride, but I lost the next 7. Some by as much as 6-0, either I forgot how to play for 7 games or this is really bloody hard. Anyone beat it yet?

I just got to this, it is very hard!

I managed to win 3 of the games in total and came second from bottom . This included an 8-2 thrashing by Wario.

They seem to be so fast at everything it is completely different from playing humans online.

[Beertiger]

Wow, talk about a huge jump in difficulty. The last cup is an absolute beast, won the first 2 games and thought I was in for an easy ride, but I lost the next 7. Some by as much as 6-0, either I forgot how to play for 7 games or this is really bloody hard. Anyone beat it yet?

Nintendo games are some of the hardest around and completely at odds with the image the company is trying to present. We as gamers are used to getting touched in a bad way but I'd hate to hear the expletives used by the casuals picking this up on the off chance they might play against Ian Wright online.

[Jolly]

I came back from 7-1 down to win a game 8-7 online yesterday. Credit to the guy, he didn't quit.

In fact I tend to use the win/lose ratio as a kind of wanker litimus test. If they've lost more than they've won, they're less likely to quit.

[diggler]

Is there no penalty for people quitting?

[GC Zombie]

It is supposed to add a loss and subtract 5 points if you disconnect. But after having Perple with very few losses disconnect on me I figure they have found a way to do it without penalty.

[Cerebral Assassin]

It is supposed to add a loss and subtract 5 points if you disconnect. But after having Perple with very few losses disconnect on me I figure they have found a way to do it without penalty.

I Think that if service goes down due to Nintendo then wins and losses for that series don't count but if a player disconnects they lose points

[Spuddles]

Well I started with a new mii online and during a match the other person disconnected/ server fault and subtracted a loss from me

Although i was already on 0 losses so it took me down to -1 losses and also gave me 2 wins for my trouble

[Warszawa]

I'm getting annoyed by the 'error getting data' shit after matches. My record today is 9-0 but thanks to Nintendo's shitty servers it's listed as 5-2.

[A Hen]

Went online. Game started. Opponent played as Daisy. Kick off. He got the ball. Before I could react, he mega-striked, and fired off six mega-fast shots (much faster than I've seen so far in single player, where I can usually save them). I saved none of them. Kick off. Before I could even press a button, he got the ball and did it again. And again. And again. After amassing a vast lead, he stopped using mega-strikes, and proceeded to beat me using normal shots. I at least scored one goal, managing to get the score to something like 33-1.

Frankly, I'm scared to go back online.

I haven't been so outclassed since Dreamcast Quake III, where someone took pity and began using his fists against my rocket launcher. Oh man.

[drewthmsn]

Went online. Game started. Opponent played as Daisy. Kick off. He got the ball. Before I could react, he mega-striked, and fired off six mega-fast shots (much faster than I've seen so far in single player, where I can usually save them). I saved none of them. Kick off. Before I could even press a button, he got the ball and did it again. And again. And again. After amassing a vast lead, he stopped using mega-strikes, and proceeded to beat me using normal shots. I at least scored one goal, managing to get the score to something like 33-1.

Frankly, I'm scared to go back online.

Never have I been so trounced, except Dreamcast Quake III, where someone was so much better that he thrashed me using his fists, while I fired ineffectually with the rocket launcher. Oh man.

I did this to someone this afternoon, was 9-0 up after 16 seconds or something, although it ended 12-1. Bit weird.

[rjpageuk]

Why couldnt you stop him megastriking - you must have had quite a lot of time?

Were you playing 2v2? I noticed a fairly common strat in 2v2 games which is for the 2nd player to shove everyone out of the way allowing the 1st player immunity for megastrikes/skillshots although it isnt a fullproof method.

[A Hen]

Why couldnt you stop him megastriking - you must have had quite a lot of time?

It didn't seem like I had more than a split second, but I was drunk, so maybe I was just being dozy! And no, it wasn't a 2v2 game.

Edit: I was playing as Bowser, who is slow, and Daisy ran rings around him. My team were boring old Mr. Average Koopas, too, so weren't particularly fast. I think this is why. (Also, he was ace and I was shit).

[Jolly]

This is one of the reasons I play as Peach with two Toads. You can run rings around The Chunkies.

[Sarlaccfood]

Just had a great series, after losing the first game by a scratch to quite a well matched opponent I quickly ran to put the dinner in the oven, I came back to see the gloves on my screen waiting for me to save a megastrike, after saving every shot I see the score is 2-0 to him, so he'd even scored a few times before the megastrike. Which meant he must have known by the way my players where standing still that I wasn't at the controls. The snidey cheat. Two brilliant and well matched games later I come away with winning the series while my housemates wonder why I've been screaming "take that you cheating bastard!" repeatedly for the last ten minutes.

Great game

[mixed]

The kids next door came round to play this earlier

They absolutely fucking loved it

particulary 2 v 2 online

Please note everyone.

Try not to get annoyed if you come across someone repeatedly hammering Monty Mole's dirt drill as they are probably 8 years old and pissing themselves laughing.

[Massive Invisible Dog]

The kids next door came round to play...absolutely fucking loved it...particulary 2 v 2...Please note everyone.

Try not to get annoyed if you come across someone...repeatedly hammering...dirt drill...they are probably 8 years old and pissing themselves

[scottcr]

I just got beat 3 series in a row online... as usual, a couple of weeks after release, I completely lose it online and get pwned by kids who dedicate half their lives to this game. At least that's what I keep telling myself.

Didn't stop it from being a laugh though... fingers crossed, the servers seem quite stable now.