Reception
Currently, reviews of the game have been generally positive with an average critic score of 80% at Game Rankings and 79% at Metacritic. Official Nintendo Magazine praised the pick-up and play feel of the game, giving the game 91%. Eurogamer also favored the added strategy and feel to game, giving it an 8/10. UK magazine NGamer criticized the game for its low amount of game modes, but overall felt that it was a definite improvement over the Nintendo GameCube original, giving it 78%. Edge magazine was concerned about the overwhelming power of the Mega Strike feature, also citing "The eventful, minute-long matches and frantic to-and-fro make Mario Strikers a suitable curtain-raiser for online gaming on the Wii, but a balanced and deep extreme sports game this is not.", giving it 6/10. IGN UK gave the game an 8.7 out of 10 and an editor's choice award. UK based website Mansized scored Mario Strikers Charged a full 5 out of 5 stars, particularly praising the game's enjoyable multiplayer options. GameSpot gave the game a score of 7.5 out 10. Hyper's Rico Shavez commends the game for its "great net code and immediately fun". However, he criticises it for its "lack of options, being shallow and its lightweight single player".
GameTap stated "The reason why it’s not fun at times isn’t because it doesn’t replicate the craziness--but rather that the AI becomes so incredibly cheap in the later tournaments and that there really isn’t much to the overall game aside from just beating the crap out of everyone to make way for a shot on goal", giving the game 7/10.
GamingTarget gave the game 7/10,citing: "To sum things up, Mario Strikers Charged is a fun, yet brutal anti-soccer game for all ages, but unfortunately the graphics leave something to be desired".
GameTrailers gave the game 7.4/10 citing the game was the first great Wi-fi game for Wii in America.
Nintendo Power gave the US edition 8.5 out of 10, criticizing the limited single player modes while praising its online and offline multiplayer capabilities.
GamePro gave Mario Strikers Charged 5 out of 5, praising the great online support, lots of game modes, and its fun battles.
As of March 31, 2008, 1.77 million copies of the game have been sold worldwide, with 240,000 being sold in Japan.
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