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New Super Mario Bros. Wii Wii
  • Publisher: Nintendo
  • Release Date: Nov 15, 2009
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Metascore
87 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 80 Critics What's this?

User Score
8.6 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 295 Ratings

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  • Summary: New Super Mario Bros. Wii offers a combination of cooperation and competition. Players can pick each other up to save them from danger or toss them into it. Mario, Luigi and two Toads are all playable characters, while many others from the Mushroom Kingdom make appearances throughout the game. Players can even ride different Yoshi characters and use their tongues to swallow enemies, items and even balls of fire. In some areas, players use the motion abilities of the Wii Remote controller. The first player to reach a seesaw might make it tilt to help his or her character reach a higher platform - or might maike it tilt incorrectly just to mess with other players. New items include the propeller suit, which will shoot players high into the sky with just a shake of the Wii Remote, and Mario’s new ability to transform into Penguin Mario. At the end of each stage during the coin battle multiplayer mode, players are ranked based on the number of coins they have collected. [Nintendo]… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 75 out of 80
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 80
  3. Negative: 0 out of 80
  1. N-Europe
    100
    A truly great Mario title and a bold and brilliant new multiplayer direction for the series. Buy it now!
  2. Nintendo Life
    100
    New Super Mario Bros. brings all of the classic fun from past Super Mario Bros. releases together in one amazing greatest hits-style gameplay experience and does so in a way that only Nintendo themselves can do. If you only buy one game for your Wii console for the rest of your life, make sure it's this one.
  3. Edge Magazine
    70
    Despite the lack of ingenuity on display, NSMB Wii's thrash of four players does bring uproarious anarchy to the sofa for short periods of time. [Dec 2009, p.86]
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 69 out of 84
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 84
  3. Negative: 6 out of 84
  1. NateSc
    10
    wow....frustrating fun you can't stop playing. I cannot find a fault in this game. The final fight is amazing. Some of it gets tricky but nothing impossible. Also, the more people...the 10 times funnier it gets. Still fun first player but still. The games takes about 4 non stop days to beat but maybe 2 weeks if played on occasions. Get it or rent it now!… Expand
    • 2 of 2 users said yes
  2. Suffering
    5
    Just too, too hard!
    • 2 of 8 users said yes
  3. Neilh
    0
    Possibly the worst game ever played. To say the controls are sluggish would be the understatement of the year. It isn't that the game itself is hard in design, it is on par with other fun 2D mario games, however the developers went way over the top with handicapping the player with slow, laggy movements. You might as well be trying to play this game with mittens on.… Expand
    • 2 of 10 users said yes

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