I'm reviewing Mario Super Sluggers in the Children's Software Section, though it might equally fit in the Games Section. However, the marks might be very different. Although it is a sports game, Mario Super Sluggers is not the kind of deep, rich, challenging baseball game hardcore sports freaks are looking for. I suppose most of them would have gotten that from the anthropromorphic mushrooms, dragons and fairy princesses on the cover, but I promise you some gamer sites will evaluate this program as if it was designed for dorm room play. Note to my college-student daughter: If you're playing video games with baseball playing mushrooms you can pay for your own tuition.
Mario Super Sluggers is a family oriented game for casual baseball/video game fans. It features the Nintendo fantasy cast in over the top, power-up baseball. Yes, you use the Wii Remote to swing and pitch, but this is game will no more teach you the fundimentals of baseball than those arcade games of yester-year that mixed pinball and baseball.
What you will have is simple fun: expected mini-games, some unexpected strategy particularly on the defense, and lots of chance to play with Mario and the Nintendo gang.
