E3 '09: New Super Mario Bros. Wii

wat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Juz da same as da 1 on da DS

Its clearly different as you can see it has 4 players, and a different graphics style.

If it ain't broke don't fix it!

WHO THE F*** TALKS LIKE THAT

The spiritual sequel to the hugely popular NSMB DS from a few years back, it features classic 2D Mario game-play with 3D, pre-rendered, characters and lovely, highly detailed backgrounds.

I highly doubt that those characters are prerendered. Why go through the trouble to prerender if the system would have no problems running the 3D graphics engine? This looks to me like full 3D engine, just sidescrolling.

Being as they are fairly small on the screen, especially with 4 players, it's a bit difficult to tell but either way I don't think it would make much graphical difference. Nor is this a particularly important point, but, whatever. Game is fun to play, as it's a Mario game. I don't know if it will be fun with friends or not. But what I do know is it feels just like the DS version. Which is a good thing.

I was definitely not intending to sound negative about it. It just didn't really excite me either. I like "real" Mario games when they have new exciting game play ideas. The tanooki tail and suites in 3. The huge world map and cape and Yoshi in world, the water pack in sunshine (yes I liked sunshine) and the planet hoping, gravity fun of Galaxy. The big change in this one is 4 player which, from my brief experience, doesn't seem all that great. Also Galaxy 2 is just more Galaxy, which is fine, but again, not exciting.

I didn't mean to insinuate you were sounding negative.

I just said the SNES days are over, and so are the times they needed to prerender simple 3D characters and put them in a 2D environment as sprites. It's a lot more of a hastle than just keep it 3D.

My bad, first paragraph was for you, second was aimed else where. I should really quote both.