Mario Hoops 3-on-3
Get that magic touch. There are plenty of basketball games out there, but none with the hands-on control of Mario Hoops 3-on-3. Players use the touch screen to get their game on as they execute tricky…
Mario Hoops 3-on-3 is a sport developed by Square Enix, released 27 July 2006 on Wii U and Nintendo DS. The main story takes about 8 hrs to finish.
What Mario Hoops 3-on-3 is
Mario Hoops 3-on-3 is a sport game developed by Square Enix and released in 2006. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Wii U and Nintendo DS. It carries an ESRB E age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Get that magic touch. There are plenty of basketball games out there, but none with the hands-on control of Mario Hoops 3-on-3. Players use the touch screen to get their game on as they execute tricky dribbles, special passes and sweet shots - all with strokes and taps of the stylus. Players choose their teams of three characters from the Mario universe and hit the parquet. Power-ups like Red Shells and Bob-ombs can turn the tide as they chase down coins - they will affect the score, so players collect as many as they can as they drive to the hoop. Whether playing against friends on a local wireless connection, jamming through a tournament or just playing mini-games, there's a mode for…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.
Where it sits in the Mario series
Mario Hoops 3-on-3 is the 413th of 668 entries we hold in the Mario series. The next entry was Game & Watch Collection in 2006. Its critic score of 60 is 17 points below the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Super Mario World at 100.
How it was received
Mario Hoops 3-on-3 holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 21% of the 1,610 rated sport games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 5 points below the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 8 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 15 hrs, roughly 1.9 times the length of the critical path.
What it launched against
Mario Hoops 3-on-3 launched on 27 July 2006, within three weeks of Persona 3, Dead Rising, Prey and Civilization IV: Warlords. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Persona 3, Dead Rising, Prey, Civilization IV: Warlords.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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