14 DAY TRIAL // Ever since the release of the Wii console from Nintendo and the possibility of Wii owners to play online using a friend code-less system provided by the company, the concept never seemed to take any shape at all. Until recently that is. An interview with Next Level Games (Mario Strikers: Charged Football) speaks openly about friend codes, being less painful that gamers originally thought.
Gamers.fr asks: "And for Mii codes, how is it going?" Next Level Games Producer, Justin Dowdeswell answered: "Every Mii created generates a Mii code that will never change after its creation. Therefore this code will be used for all other online games in the future," posts EvilAvatar.
Yes but is this happening soon? Are they working on such Mii-code-using title at the present, or are they just confirming the possibility?
Mario Strikers: Charged Football is not your average football game, but an exciting and engaging emphasis on each team's captain, each having unique abilities and enhanced skills, which allow them to really influence the outcome of a game.
Team captains feature a Super Ability which can be used to send their opponents into nonexistence, ranging from Mario growing to giant proportions and trampling other players, to Peach taking a photo and freezing the entire opposing team on the spot. In Mario Strikers: Charged Football, gamers can also choose 3 side- kicks (from a total of 8), with each of them having unique features, allowing for tactical team customization.
As for the control scheme, the Wiimote encourages the player to make instinctive physical movements to achieve the desired effect within the game, with basic movement and strikes executed using the analogue stick, buttons and nunchuk.
In a game such as Mario Strikers: Charged Football, a code attached directly to the player's Mii sounds devastatingly appealing, but would't have Nitntendo said anything by now if all this was so simple? Wasn't a Pokemon title also supposed to have this friend code thing? Maybe I'm mixing them up...