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Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash

Grab your friends and family and dive into multiplayer mayhem with Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash on the Wii U console. Along with the fun and dynamic gameplay known to the franchise, surprise your opponents with a…

60 20 November 2015 ESRB E

Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash is a sport developed by Camelot, released 20 November 2015 on Wii U.

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What Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash is

Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash is a sport game developed by Camelot and released in 2015. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Wii U only. It carries an ESRB E age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Grab your friends and family and dive into multiplayer mayhem with Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash on the Wii U console. Along with the fun and dynamic gameplay known to the franchise, surprise your opponents with a new move to the series, the Jumpshot, which sends the ball flying down the court. Change the sport up with new Mega Battles, using the Mega Mushroom to gain an advantage over the competition. Claim your spot in Mario Tennis lore in singles (1v1) or doubles (2v2) as you play with and against family, friends or the CPU using returning and new characters to the series.
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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 and Single player.

Where it sits in the Mario series

Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash is the 544th of 668 entries we hold in the Mario series. The next entry was Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam in 2015. Its critic score of 60 is 17 points below the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Super Mario World at 100.

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How it was received

Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash 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 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 9 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash launched on 20 November 2015, within three weeks of Fallout 4, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Star Wars Battlefront and Just Cause 3. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Fallout 4, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Star Wars Battlefront, Just Cause 3.

Official trailer

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Quick answers

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When did Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash come out?
Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash was released on 20 November 2015 for Wii U.

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