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New Super Mario Bros. Video from E3.
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Overview
OLD SCHOOL,ALL NEW
set up for both single player and two player cooperative runs through a field, a desert and a fortress the return of Super Mario Bros.Side-scrolling series drew big crowds of old-school gamers at the show.Just when you think you've seen everything the series has to offer, you see something new.The bulk of the action takes place on the top screen, with the bottom screen reserved for a progress bar and item storage.When you need one of your stored items, such as a mushroom or a fire flower, you tap it to make it drop into the playing field.When the brothers Mario sink certain pipes, they go underground and the action transfers to the bottom screen.
Classic enemies-Goombas and Piranha plants grow to enormous proportions. And,in the E3 version's most inspired moment, the 3-D rendered player-controlled character also grows to screen-filling size, allowing you to become godzilla to buglike enemies and brick walls.
E3 attendees who have the original SMB titles burned into memory-the ones who were calling New Super Mario Bros.(the working title) the DS game of the show-were dazzled by its variations on the familiar SMB themes.For those who know Mario's place in platforming history,this is one to watch for.
platforms swaying left and right like palm trees in a tropical storm, swinging ropes and supersized mario.Some things are comfortably familiar in Super Mario Bros., and others are wonderfully different.
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