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Mario Super Sluggers is in stores today, giving gamers something besides Wii Fit and Mario Kart to play. Offering baseball fun using 40+ characters from the Mario universe, Mario Super Sluggers puts arcade action gameplay and special power-ups familiar to Mario fans front and center. Playing the game is much like Wii Play’s version of baseball using Wii Remote: swing the Wii Remote like a bat or make a pitching motion to throw a pitch. Finally, the game allows you to import your Mii’s to customize things a little.

The single-player game sends you on a tour of Baseball Kingdom, where you’ll encounter characters with different baseball skills that you must defeat in order to get them to join your team. These characters serve as team captains, who have special abilities on the field (like Mario being able to pitch a fireball, as an example). Just like real world baseball - and life in general - , some players play better together than others: different character combinations result in good chemistry for a team. In the world of Mario Super Sluggers, this could result in amazing catches in the outfield or the ability to interfere with fielders.

The next seven days look to be good times for gamers everywhere - beginning with Tiger Woods 09 and Disgaea 3 and ending with Mercenaries 2. Others highlights in the next seven days include Call of Duty 4 GOTY Edition for PC, Vampire Rain: Altered Species, Mario Super Sluggers and N+. More after the jump:

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