Mario Sports Mix Review (Wii)

Mario and his compadres have a long history of participating in various sports games: baseball, tennis, soccer, golf, the Olympics, etc. It seems the quality of these games has varied as much as the sports themselves. The newest attempt at capturing sports the way they were meant to be played (at least in the Mushroom Kingdom) is Mario Sports Mix. Unfortunately, Mario Sports Mix will land amongst the worst of the icon’s athletic offerings.

Gameplay

Mario Sports Mix contains four “mixed-up” sports: dodgeball, hockey, basketball and volleyball. All of them are pretty simple in their control and execution -- almost to a fault. There is not a lot of depth or finesse to the control schemes; in fact, you can play using the “old school” method of turning the Wii remote sideways. Using this method, you usually are only using two buttons (with a third activating specials).

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