Mario Party 4
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Mario Party 4 is a card & board game developed by Hudson Soft, released 21 October 2002 on Nintendo GameCube.
What Mario Party 4 is
Mario Party 4 is a card & board game game developed by Hudson Soft and released in 2002. It was published by Gradiente. It is available on Nintendo GameCube only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Mario Party 4 is a 2002 party video game developed by Hudson Soft and published by Nintendo for the GameCube. It is the fourth installment in the Mario Party series and the first one to be released for GameCube. Like the previous games in the series, it features eight playable characters from the Mario franchise—Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, Yoshi, Wario, Donkey Kong, Princess Daisy, and Waluigi—competing in a board game, with the objective of each of the six game boards being to earn the most Stars. Besides the standard multiplayer mode, the game also features a single-player campaign in which the player plays the game with artificial intelligence-controlled players.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and party. It supports multiplayer. Local play supports 4 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.
Where it sits in the Mario Bros. series
Mario Party 4 is the 29th of 66 entries we hold in the Mario Bros. series. The next entry was WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$! in 2003. Its critic score of 50 is 24 points below the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Super Mario World at 100.
How it was received
Mario Party 4 holds a critic score of 50 out of 100. That places it above 8% of the 303 rated card & board game games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 18 points below the year average. Players rate it 62, 12 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
What it launched against
Mario Party 4 launched on 21 October 2002, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, TimeSplitters 2, Age of Mythology and Hitman 2: Silent Assassin. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, TimeSplitters 2, Age of Mythology, Hitman 2: Silent Assassin.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Mario Party 4 yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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