A lava level! What will they think of next? An ice level, probably. Except now we could run into and bounce off each other, we discovered - using each other's heads as impromptu stepladders to reach those high-up coins. Within seconds we were all running and bouncing around with ease and it felt just like old times. As veteran Mario fans it wasn't hard for us to get to grips with the controls (apart from Bertie, who had to be told to hold the Wii remote horizontally instead of vertically, but he's the youngest and extremely next-gen). But to really understand how important this difference is and how much it changes the Mario experience, maybe you need to have a play. In fact, the only difference seems to be that there are four characters on-screen (Mario, Luigi, yellow Toad and blue Toad, in the demo on show at the Expo). Please hammers, do hurt 'em.Īs you go, you encounter familiar power-ups like super-sizing mushrooms and fire flowers. You run from left to right within a 2D landscape, collecting coins and jumping on enemies along the way. At first glance it looks just like the Mario games of old, all blue skies and green pipes and yellow question boxes. But the Eurogamer Expo marks the first time UK gamers get to play NSMB Wii, and yesterday morning was the first time the four of us got to play it together.Īs you'll know if you read Oli's E3 preview, that's how the game's meant to be played. The Eurogamer editorial team voted NSMB Wii game of the show at this year's E3, causing a bit of consternation. It wasn't the first time we'd seen the game in action. You'd also have heard giggling, shouting, cackling, cheering, jeering, ridiculing and a lot of swearing. If you'd been standing nearby you'd have heard the familiar plink of gold coins and boing of bouncing plumbers. Goodness knows who they were, but sadly they had to dash off to do something more important leaving me, Tom, Bertie and editor Matt Martin to try out Nintendo's latest offering. Wii area, where four of Eurogamer's finest had gathered.
Apart from the 48 people in blue t-shirts running round shouting, "Where's Rupert / the bag of ethernet cables / the 17 missing Xbox 360 units," of course. At 10.30am yesterday morning, all was quiet on the Eurogamer Expo show floor.
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