Mario Party: Island Tour (2013) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Mario Party: Island Tour

Mario Party: Island Tour lets you take the fun on the road with your Nintendo 3DS system! Face off against friends and family in the all-new, ultimate Mario Party – a portable minigame extravaganza that’s…

55 21 November 2013 ESRB E

What Mario Party: Island Tour is

Mario Party: Island Tour is an adventure game developed by NDCube and released in 2013. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo 3DS only. It carries an ESRB E age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Mario Party: Island Tour lets you take the fun on the road with your Nintendo 3DS system! Face off against friends and family in the all-new, ultimate Mario Party – a portable minigame extravaganza that’s bursting with gameplay possibilities. If you’ve never played a Mario Party game before, you’re in for a treat. There’s always something new to see on the Party Islands. In this ultimate showdown you can take on the road, blaze through the 7 new game boards, some of which take just minutes to play. Wrangle goombas and blast out of cannons as you tilt, tap, and draw through new minigames harnessing the unique functionality of Nintendo 3DS. Compete in new multiplayer modes including mind…

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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and party. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Mario Bros. series

Mario Party: Island Tour is the 64th of 66 entries we hold in the Mario Bros. series. It arrived 8 months after Game & Wario. The next entry was Mario Kart 8 in 2014. Its critic score of 55 is 19 points below the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Super Mario World at 100.

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How it was received

Mario Party: Island Tour holds a critic score of 55 out of 100. That places it above 11% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 15 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Mario Party: Island Tour launched on 21 November 2013, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, Super Mario 3D World, Injustice: Gods Among Us Ultimate Edition and XCOM: Enemy Within. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, Super Mario 3D World, Injustice: Gods Among Us Ultimate Edition, XCOM: Enemy Within.

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