Super Mario Strikers - Gamecube Game (Retro Fam)

This is definitely my favorite game of the year (including 2005). I'm incredibly surprised it's not as big as Mario Kart yet. Before I bought it, I was thinking, "eh, soccer?", and "eh, sports?", but really, it's so much more than a soccer game. The difference between Mario Strikers, or Mario Soccer, and any other soccer game is great. You throw turtle shells, you tackle people, you bomb people, you freeze people, you kick people in the face with the ball and make them dizzy (including the goaly, resulting in an awesome goal), and of course the super strikes are really fun, but challenging as well. That's another thing about this game, it's also challenging. There are four different difficulty levels that work out perfectly. Obviously you should start out with rookies and move upward. I've been playing several hours a day for about three weeks now and I'm still working my way up to beating someone on the legendary difficulty.Fifty dollars is a small price to pay for this game, I swear on it. So go out and buy it... thank me later.

My older brother (21) AND i (17) have been obsessed with soccer our whole life. The skill involved, the team work, the tricks, the quick plays... If you believe like me that super mario sports games are the best title of sports games out there, then this game is definitely meant for you. Every super mario sports title is well thought out with smart cpu opponents, there's never a "cheap" way to score or a repetitive move that's always successful. Super Mario Strikers combined love for soccer with love for Mario sports titles. The game is fantastic. Solid four on four soccer (you choose 1 of 9 captains and then 3 other players). Initially your amazed by the brutallity of the game, shells and bombs, tackling and showboating, and like alot of reviews said that aspect is alot of fun, but it gets old... No no no, as long as you see past the items you'll realize the amount of skill the game takes. Hitting a player withotu the ball fives the opposing team an item, the game's equivalent of giving a penalty (tons of skill there, no items if you don't hit). Plus you can turn the items off, and the game stands as a five star game without it. Guy complaining about certain options not working; in the options there's cheats, to use the cheats you must unlock by winning tournaments, which makes sense because the cheats simply add extreme's to the games. This is the game that nobody beats me at, and this is the game my brother and I play together everytime we see each other. The game's fantas.

So I may be biased comparing this to Mario Strikers Charged (I played Mario Strikers Charged before this) it seems to be harder.