Super Mario 3D World

Super Mario 3D World is a 3D platformer action game for the Wii U, and a follow-up of the Nintendo 3DS installment Super Mario 3D Land. The game builds upon the previous installment, following a similar 3D…

94 21 November 2013

Platform Action

Super Mario 3D World is a platform developed by Nintendo, released 21 November 2013 on Wii U. The main story takes about 10 hrs to finish.

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What Super Mario 3D World is

Super Mario 3D World is a platform game developed by Nintendo and released in 2013. It is available on Wii U only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

While having a walk in the Mushroom Kingdom, Mario, Toad and Peach, and Luigi happen on one of the many green pipes, yet a special one. A fairy, which they'll learn is Princess Sprixie, comes out. Bowser is chasing after her, though: he kidnaps her and vanishes through the pipe. Mario and the friends of his can't but promptly jump into the pipe, and they find themselves in the Sprinxie Kingdom, tasked with rescuing the princess.

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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It supports multiplayer and includes co-op. Local play supports 4 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Mario series

Super Mario 3D World is the 501st of 668 entries we hold in the Mario series. The next entry was Mario Party: Island Tour in 2013. Its critic score of 94 is 17 points above the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Super Mario World at 100.

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How it was received

Super Mario 3D World holds a critic score of 94 out of 100. That places it above 98% of the 2,372 rated platform games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 24 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 89, across 449 votes.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 10 hrs.

What it launched against

Super Mario 3D World launched on 21 November 2013, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, Injustice: Gods Among Us Ultimate Edition, XCOM: Enemy Within and Call of Duty: Ghosts. It reviewed better than all of them.

Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, Injustice: Gods Among Us Ultimate Edition, XCOM: Enemy Within, Call of Duty: Ghosts.

Cheats and codes

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