Mario Strikers: Charged Football

Genre: Football (aw wait, let me specify: European football, which is American soccer or what? WHERE YOU KICK THE BALL WITH YOU FOOT GODDAMIT)

Release: 2007

Platform: Wii

Graphics: Good. Funny effects, but not that much that you aren't able to grasp what the hell is going on on the screen.

Story: It's a fantasy-football-game. There is none. Teams play against each other. Each team has one captain, which is always one of the more iconic figures of nintendo, like bowser, mario, peach, waluigi and so on, and 3 team members, which are side-characters like koopas or drybones.

Every ingameplayer has different stats, some are slow but shot really hard, some are very good at getting the ball and passing, and so on. You can freely choose your team.

You can foul, you can do tricks, you can do hilarious cool shots, you can use items which spawn after good shots or fouls by your enemy.

It's much fun, go out and play it. Even better if you have a buddy who is also on your skill-level.

RATING: 7/10

Mario Party 8

Genre: Minigame-Collection
Release: 2007
Platform: Wii
Graphics: Typical for the Wii, I say.

Story: Ahahahahah, story? Nope. Oh wait, there is one: a fair is in town, and you go play the minigames.

The minigames themselves are not that bad, the problem is that it takes too long to get to know them. You are playing the board-game-game-mode, roll the dice, your character moves on the next field, a minigame starts, a screen pops up, where there are some vague explanations on what to do now, but nevertheless you and your mates play one practice-round before starting the real thing, because you don't know what to do.

This takes a long time. But there is a plus: all of that is commented by a funny moderator-commentator-guy.

And by funny I mean "annoying as shit".

Also he is speaks slow. Very slow. Too slow. I hate him. I hate the rest of the game. Everything is slow. Even the animations. You roll the dice. For something that feels like 5 seconds or something. And the walking. It's just the same. They are all so slow and annoying and I hate everything.

Awesome Fact: Even if there is nothing awesome to say about this game, there is one fun fact: if you play the game as a drinking game it just gets funnier and funnier. And it works great as a drinking game, you can talk much during the rounds, since everything is so annoyingly slow as fuckfuck. :F

Rating: 4/10