Product Details

Product Description

Every hundred years a comet passes over the Mushroom Kingdom and rains down stars and stardust, and as Princess Peach andthe citizens of the kingdom are celebrating the centennial event, Bowser and his legions attack by launching asteroids at the Mushroom Kingdom and crystalizing the Toads! Knowing that Bowser is after Princess Peach, Mario runs to save her. Things go awry as Bowser summons a massive spaceship, abducts Peach’s entire castle and hits Mario with a massive magical attack. The next thing he knows, he finds himself on a mysterious moon high above the Mushroom Kingdom! Navigate Mario through a bevy of exciting new worlds and the depths of space, with all new enemies, power-ups and attack skills, as he collects the Stars needed to save Princess Peach! Two player functionality ESRB Rated RP for Rating Pending

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Nintendo
• Released on: 2007-11-12
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platform: Nintendo Wii
• Dimensions: .40 pounds

Features

• Join Mario as he ushers in a new era of video games, defying gravity across all the planets in the galaxy
• Players can run, jump, and battle enemies as they explore the many planets
• Press buttons, swing the Wii Remote and Nunchuk controllers, and use the Wii Remote to point at and drag things on-screen
• Perform mind-bending, low-gravity jumps across wild alien terrain
• For 1 to 2 players

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
Mario returns and takes his next adventure into space. Follow him as he travels from planet to planet bending the rules of gravity. Players experience perspective shifts as they run upside down through alien worlds. Meet challenges like surfing on a ray in an ocean in the clouds, rolling a ball through a treacherous garden, or floating in a bubble over a poisonous swamp. Control Mario with the Wii Remote and use the Nunchuk to perform his special moves. A special co-op function allows a second player to collect star bits for Mario or take care of enemies in his way. This title also includes opportunities to change Mario into a Boo or a bee.

Customer Reviews

Easy, Maybe, it redeems itself over and over.
This has to be one of the best, smartest and most fun Mario games I have ever played. When I saw the previews of the game on some of the websites last year I was skeptical.

I was unsure how running around a small globe in space would be all that fun. I was completely wrong. It is very fun and intuitive. Some of the boards are extremely tricky, no not as a puzzle, that part is generally easy.

The trick comes in when trying to figure out when to do your special moves.

There are some levels you can revisit when a comet comes into the galaxy, making it randomly different level. The level can be faster, or backwards or any number of odd ways.

Generally it takes a few trys to get the bosses, but they are doable.

All in all one of the best games for the Wii I have played and one of the best Mario games too!

Highly recommended.

awesome game
Super Mario Galaxy was awesome. The game is a challenge and can get frustrating. Super Mario gets you pumped up to play it again and again. It takes lots of concentration, so do not play it when annoying people are around to screw up your game! Highly recommended by our family.

Great gameplay, but needs story.
Lets get this out of the way-’Galaxy’ is the best platformer in years and I wholeheartedly recommend it for great family fun. ‘Galaxy’ has consistently fun and fresh game play that getting the stars will be a pleasure. The only problem here however, unlike the awesome Zelda, theres not much in terms of story. The peeps at Nintendo seem to have only focused on game play and just threw in some quick story accessible from the game’s “reading room”. Ten, twenty years ago this was fine because games weren’t art, but today’s great video games need more than pitch perfect game play which is what ‘Galaxy’ has at the very least.

Awesome game play, but forced ‘add-on’ story is not acceptable today in video games. ‘Galaxy’ is great fun, but thats it- no hilarious dialogue or much in the way for story. Nintendo has to focus more on story if they want to get the sales numbers it deserves(Halo).

Buy ‘Galaxy’ because its fun. If you want something more like a story you simply wont find it here which in this new day and age of video games is simply not enough. Step it up Nintendo!