During an interview to promote Nintendo's upcoming holiday line-up, (Nintendo America President) Reggie Fils-Ame claimed to GameTrailers host Geoff Keighley that New Super Mario Bros. Wii will outsell Modern Warfare 2...but only under very specific conditions. Asked whether players will pick up more copies of Mario throughout the season, Fils-Aime was quite confident "Absolutely. I say that unequivocally."
Players start out as Mario, Luigi and a couple of coloured Toads - who knows if more characters might be available later? - and start the time-honoured scroll from left to right. The Wii remote is held laterally and the game uses NES-style controls - d-pad, 1 to dash, 2 to jump. That's it, save a shake that performs a spin-jump or, if you run into another player with dash also held down, picks them up.
@Joe80, As long as you like platforming, you should still like this as single player.
If you have friends to play local multi player, it will be fun, Zelda:Four Swords fun (without the heavy investment needed for Zelda:FS multi).
I have a blast playing Zelda:FS with my sons, so I am going to buy this game day one, and play it with my sons (hope they didn't beat me too badly, since they are much better at platforming game than me).
Nintendo should have had online multiplay with this game. Not every one have friends who can play locally with him (especially those that are 22 - 30, single, living alone, not married yet).
@apujanata, Just read that it doesn't. Maybe it's still fun in single player though. Just wondering because it seems like it might be like Four Swords and really be best with multi.
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Note that this is for the 2009 holiday season in America comparing Modern Warfare 2 (360) to New Super Mario Bros.