Mario Hoops 3-on-3
| Mario Hoops 3-on-3 | |
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North American cover art
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| Developer(s) | Square Enix |
| Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
| Director(s) | Shin Azuma |
| Producer(s) | Toyokazu Nonaka Hiroyuki Miura |
| Composer(s) | Masayoshi Soken |
| Platform(s) | Nintendo DS |
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| Genre(s) | Sports |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
| Mario Basketball 3on3 Original Soundtrack | |
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| Soundtrack album by Masayoshi Soken, Koji Kondo, and Yukio Kaneoka | |
| Released | October 18, 2006 (Japan) |
| Genre | Video game soundtrack |
| Length | 41:26 |
| Label | Square Enix |
| Aggregate score | |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| Metacritic | 69 out of 100 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| Edge | 7 out of 10 |
| EGM | 6.17 out of 10 |
| Eurogamer | 6 out of 10 |
| Game Informer | 6.5 out of 10 |
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| Game Revolution | C |
| GameSpot | 7.1 out of 10 |
| GameSpy | |
| GameTrailers | 7.1 out of 10 |
| IGN | (AU) 7.4 out of 10 (UK) 7 out of 10 (US) 6.8 out of 10 |
| Nintendo Power | 7.5 out of 10 |
| The Sydney Morning Herald | |
| The Times | |
Mario Hoops 3-on-3, known in Europe as Mario Slam Basketball and in Japan as Mario Basket 3on3 (マリオバスケ 3on3 Mario Basuke 3on3?), is a sports game developed by Square Enix and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS in 2006. The game is the first in which Mario and Final Fantasy characters appear together as playable characters, and the second Mario game developed by Square Enix, the first one being Super Mario RPG. It is the first Mario basketball game ever to be released, although characters from the series have appeared in the Nintendo GameCube version of NBA Street V3. The game was released on the European Wii U Virtual Console on May 26, 2016 and it was released on North American Wii U Virtual Console on November 3, 2016.
The game features a series of three versus three basketball tournaments on different courts, each of three games. The game uses the Nintendo DS's touch screen extensively, and features items and coins from the Mario series. Critics praised the game for being amusing and fun, but criticized the weak AI and limited multiplayer options, with full basketball games only being playable across two players locally who each had a copy of the game.
The gameplay of Mario Hoops 3-on-3 is centered on basketball games, structured into tournaments that the player must win in order to progress. The tournament ladder is made with graphics based on the original Super Mario Bros.. Each tournament consists of three games with two halves of two and a half minutes each. The one exception is an extra game with the Final Fantasy team at the end of the final tournament. The player can win a tournament by winning the three games on its ladder. Upon winning, the player is awarded either a gold cup, a silver cup or a bronze cup. These cups correspond with winning by more than 200 points cumulatively across the three matches, 100 points, or simply winning all three games.
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