First off, if you're from Europe or Australia, you probably ..
Added 2022-12-01 13:11:08 +0000 UTCFirst off, if you're from Europe or Australia, you probably know this game as Mario Smash Football! It was released in 2005, and to me, 2000 to 2005 was the BEST ERA of sports games! You had NHL Hitz which was a fabulous, and probably THE best, hockey game ever released. Fast paced action and crazy good hits. It was the peak of NFL Blitz. It was a time where NCAA games were still being released and you could play with your favorite college game. It was a time where you had competition in the real sim sports games for NFL, Madden, NHL. 2K, EA Sports, and a bunch of other franchises were battling for our attention. It pushed studios to innovate and make the games different. Nowadays, Madden and NHL release the same damn game year after year with a few roster changes, and that's about it. In other words, it was a time were the "politically correct" wasn't stopping sports games from being games. And I loved the competition and the vast choice we had. Anyways...this brings us back to this great sports title of Super Mario Strikers (Or Smash Football). The game's developers had worked on NHL Hitz Pro before development of Strikers, which served as an influence for the fast-paced and physical nature of the game. If you have played Hitz, you can definitely see that influence while playing. It was the last Mario game to be released on GameCube. You had Super Mario Strikers Charged in 2007 that was released on the Wii (never played it)...and then you had to wait 15 years until Nintendo decided to give us a new instalment to this franchise. I'm guessing Mario Golf and Mario Tennis were way more popular since we didn't have to wait for that long for these two games to get back on the platform!!!
