Customer Reviews

Mario Party 3

5 star:		(53)
4 star:		(26)
3 star:		(7)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

Well, let me start by saying that you won't fully appreciate this game unless you've played the first two. The original Mario Party was insanely difficult and didn't offer you a whole lot of choices other than roll and hope you don't get screwed, since it seemed like Bowser was everywhere. In Mario Party 2, items were introduced and alternate game modes. You only got to carry one item and they were insanely expensive. Then came Mario Party 3. Well, let me say, I've never seen a game evolve so much from one sequel to the next.

You will enjoy this game if you've ever played a real-life board game with friends or family. Most living, breathing beings who enjoy a little friendly competition with an interactive backdrop will enjoy this game. Even if you lose, which you will from time to time, it's still a lot of fun. I've only explored the battle royal mode, which is just a fancy name for the regular multiplayer mode, and haven't had a chance to explore the other modes. This mode alone makes the game worthwhile. Even if you don't have anyone to play against, its still fun as a one-player game. How so? Well, for starters, it takes four players to play battle royal mode. If you're short, you can substitute a computer player, so essentially, this is a 1-4 player game. Two new characters have been added, Daisy and Waluigi (both from Mario Golf), for a total of eight characters to choose from.

The single defining quality of this game is that now you can save your game file.... The creators had foresight enough to leave three spaces for saving games under a file name. If you're in the middle of a game, you can go to the options menu and choose "Don't Save", "Save After This Turn", or "Save After Every Turn". That alone is beautiful, no longer do you have to sit and finish a 50-turn game, which could take over two hours to finish. In addition, you can set the speed of the messages and actual gameplay. That helps if you're in a hurry and want to get a quick game in.

Now here is probably one of the most useful features of the game, that isn't explicitly stated in the instruction manual. Say four of you are playing and somebody has to leave. Simply pause the game, and there is a menu option that lets you switch players back and forth between human and computer. Say that person is only gone for a few turns, then pause and switch them back to human when they return....

Also, we've gone from no items, to one item, to being able to carry up to three items at the same time. In addition, the prices have dropped sharply, unlike the real world. That's because there were only a handful of items in MP2. Now there are about double if not more and a lot more opportunities to acquire them. The items are what really make the game unpredictable. That coupled with Chance Time and Hidden Blocks makes it truly anybody's game. Don't worry if one player is dominant at most of the minigames. There is still the possibility of outsmarting them for the win. Some of the new items are truly evil in nature and others very practical and well-thought out. For example, the Boo Repellent is essential for keeping the kleptomaniac apparition at bay. The Cellular Shopper lets you buy an item at any place on the board, on your turn. In addition, there's item that lets you call Bowser and sick 'em on somebody of your choosing, a lamp that moves the star at random, a mushroom that makes someone you choose move backward for one turn, etc. The list goes on and on. The unpredictability of MP3 as opposed to MP2 makes the game incredibly more fun.

Simply put, if you like board games then you'll love this. It is truly a party. Worth every bit of the ... I paid. Nintendo certainly knows how to improve upon its predecessor titles. Go get it!

After playing this game for a weekend, I'm still getting used to it. I love the Party mode of all the Mario Party Games. In this third installment there are some good and bad points.

The good points... brand new mini games, it's refreshing to have different games to compete against your friends in. I like that there are different item games, and I love that duels are head to head competitions rather than who can press buttons the fastest. There are great new items from the item shop such as cellular shopper and reverse mushroom that are fun. Also the inclusion of two new players (Waluigi and Daisy) are nice.

The bad points...the game seems to last a little longer than the other Mario Party installments. Individual turns last longer because of so many different spots to land on (it's great if it's you, but terrible if you're waiting for your turn). I hate the shy guy gambling game. The computer characters seem almost superhuman in the mini games sometimes, making it nearly impossible to win, and some of the mini games are stupid. Especially M.P.I.Q.(a jeopardy type game testing Mario Party knowledge).

Overall I do recommend this game. It's still fun in a group like the others and it's different enough from MP1 and 2 to make it interesting.

I have this game in Japanese, and it's really fun. Everyone should buy this game. I have 1 and 2, and this is much better than both. 2 was like the same as 1, but dumber. 3, however, has two main modes: Battle Royale (normal) and Duel modes. The Duel mode is where you control one of the eight characters (the old 6 plus Princess Daisy and Waluigi) and you have an 'friend' (called 'kyara' or characters) such as Boo, Koopa, or Goomba and the object is to defeat your enemy by having your 'character' defeat the opponent. Also, you can have up to three datas. This is useful if you have many people who play. The American version, however, will probably have less because the translators are so stupid (In the Japanese version of Zelda: Majora's Mask, you could have three datas, in the American only two. I have both so don't argue).

When you start to play, there are two choices: Party mode and Story Mode. Party mode is what all MP players are accustomed to, whereas Story Mode is a new one-player mode that takes you through all boards, and you must win one to move to the next one.

The new mini-games are awesome. My favorite is Goro Goro Yukidama, which is this one that's like a snowball fight. As far as I'm concerned, there are no old mini-games. None are repeated, and if they are, they are with such large twists that they are no longer recognizable. There are more memory mini-games, rather than ones where you just push A or B over and over.

By the way, don't trust '12-year-old gamer' from NY, because he clearly has no clue what he's talking about. He also hasn't played the game. He claims that by April 4th the game was 70% done. I had the game WEEKS before April 4th.

Feel free to e-mail me at PunkvilleUSA@home.com

This game is fun, like the other Mario Party games. It has all the stuff from the other games (Well, not the mini-games, which is why I gave it four stars). You hit the dice block, you get the coins and the stars and win the mini-games.

Mario Party 3 has a deeper story than the others. It's not just some argument that just happened to come up. It's not part of a play or production. In this game, a rare Millenium Star forms and falls on Mario's lawn chair. So all his friends come by and try to claim it, because it's a cool thing to have or something.

The star says he will only be owned by the most worthy guy or girl, so Lakitu comes and drops a board game down called Mario Party. The group is about to play, then the Millenium Star shrinks everyone and sends them into the game.

A new thing in this game, besides the new mini-games and new boards, is the dual board, where you play against one person and try to deplete his heart container. You can also play as Daisy or Waluigi, but not in story mode.

Anyway, I am recommending this game to everyone.

What a great game! Now there are two new characters: Waluigi (a mix between Wario and Luigi) and Daisy (another girl character). There are over 70 new minigames and no old ones. I like all of them. There is now a story mode and a party mode. The Story Mode is a single player mode where you go through all of the boards in order to earn "stamps". If you earn all the stamps, you're done with story mode. Party Mode is where you can party with multiple players on a Battle Royal Map (from the classic Mario Party games) or on a Duel Map (2 player special map). The story is that the Millennium Star, a star born once in a thousand years, falls down by Mario and his friends. They all start arguing about who should keep it. They decide to play Mario Party to figure out who is the Superstar. You should definitely buy this game. Have fun and good luck!

I admit that I bought this on the first day it came out. I loved MP2 and knew that this would be better. I was not disappointed. The mini-games are more fun, more challenging, and more frustrating, but they aren't incredibly difficult. They are also original enough that you don't mind playing them many times (which you do) in the process of beating the one player story mode.

The graphics are rather simple, but still vibrant enough to be enjoyable. The different boards in battle royal are great. I enjoy the pitfalls and obstacles, especially when you friends get hit with them. I really enjoy that you can play different "games", such as the battle royal maps where you play the typical MP game, or the battle rounds where you actually go around a board and beat up your opponent with partners who are enemies from earlier Mario games such as Koopa and Boo.

If I had kids, I would definitely suggest this as a kid-safe game. The violence that it does suggest, which isn't much, is cartoon style and somewhat hidden. The main example is Waluigi beating up Bowser. The "whupping" is behind a big cloud of dust, so you don't actually see anything. There is no sexual content and no bad language. However, your child will need to be able to read, or play with an older child that can in order to really understand the game.

The main drawback that I see is that the text is hard to read. It isn't very clear on the screen and you have squint to read it. I would prefer that they made it a little larger and use a different font as sometimes it is hard to decipher. Overall, it is a very good game, even to a young adult, like myself.

This is the second best Mario Party game, besides Mario Party 6. This game includes the same 6, Mario, Peach, Donkey Kong, Luigi, Yoshi and Wario. But there is an added 2, Daisy and Waluigi! This is Daisy's thrid game and Waluigi's second.

The boards are in 2-D but rock out loud. THe best one is Blooper Sea, this board has the best Mario Party music ever! The minigames are well thought out. There are a fair few action ones alot of puzzles and many CRAZY ones. Toad is back along with Baby Bowser and the King Koopa himslf BOWSER.

The story is that a magical star has transformed the Mushroom-Kingdom into a pop-up book, the only way to change everything back is to complete solo mode! The items are really cool, some Items i've seen only twice and I've played the game millions of times! There are many options such as making every-one move faster on the board, and skiping CPU Minigames and battles.
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Here is a list in wich you should get Mario Parties...( and my favs. going in order)
~Party 6
~Party 3
~Party 5
~Party 4
~Party 1
~Party 2

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Mario Party 3 for the Nintendo 64 is one of the best games ever made by Nintendo. Mario Party 3 keeps the good parts of the first two versions, but enhances the gameplay and adds much more fun to it. It is a great board-game style video game. In Mario Party 3 you can play in one player mode (which can be very frustrating), 2 player, 3 player. Each mode includes one computer player for you to play with or against.

In every mode you pick the amount of players who are playing, choosing from several different characters including Mario , Luigi, Peach, Wario, and new characters form Mario Tennis. You can choose to play up to 100 turns in your game and as little as 15 turns for each player. When it is your turn you spin a dice and move to a space that many spots away which may give you three or more coins, make you lose three or more coins, have to do a battle mode, or a variety of other things.

The best part of Mario Party 3 is the Mini-games. There are over 70 new mini-games in this game which you play after every player has had a turn. You either play all on one team, 3-on-1 or 2-on-2 (if you play in 4 player mode) based on how you do on your turns and what you get. The mini-games are a variety of neat games where you have to survive 30 seconds while shells are shooting around, grow your plant the tallest from a rain cloud, a game like 3 card monty, and many, many more. Your goal in the game is to make it to the square where the star is and to earn as many coins as you can. At the end of the game you get awards for the most stars, coins and for the least amount of times you have landed on certain squares. Then you can go into a library with all of the mini-games that you used and can play them as much as you want, when you want, and you can also buy new mini-games.

I highly recommend this game to any Mario fan or anyone familiar with the Mario Party series.

If you ever tried this, u would fall in love with it. Yet, watch out!! a the mini-games are new. No "Hot rope jump" or "Skateboard scamper". Here, you have "Cheep cheep chase" and "Eatza pizza". All though some of the mini games & board games can be a rip sometimes...I still like 1p (story) mode. I already have 3 faces on the stone behind the castle. Anyway, you would love this if you rented it or owned it. Now, theres even Boo repellant to drive him away when he comes calling. Theres eave a Koopa card to widthdraw all the coins in the bank!!! It's really amazing. Try it for yourself.

If you've played the other Mario Party games, then you know how this game is played: just like a board game. The Duel Board Map is a great addition, with battles and heart pieces (HP's), and I'm really glad that the stupid outfits were taken out of Mario Party 2. There are also lots of new items, and you can carry up to three at a time. However, one problem is that the one-player Mini-game Coaster (or Island, if you've played Mario Party 1) was replaced with a retarted one-player "Story Mode" that takes itself way too seriously and thinks that it's more of an RPG. I also don't understand why there are three save files. Who needs three save files when the story mode isn't worth saving?

But if you only play Mario Party games for their Mini-games, you're in for a treat. There are lots of new Mini-games in Mario Party 3, and although some are more fun than others, they're all new and creative. Here are some of my opinions on them:

Totally awesome new Mini-games: "Mario's Puzzle Party", "Tick Tock Hop", "The Beat Goes On", "Locked Out", "Slap Down", "Ridiculous Relay", "Motor Rooter", "Popgun Pickoff", "Etch-and-Catch".

Totally retarted new Mini-games: "Eatsa Pizza", "M.P.I.Q.", "Curtain Call", "Hide and Sneak", "End of the Line", "Coconut Conk".

Totally awesome old Mini-games that should've been included: "Shell Shocked", "Speed Hockey", "Running of the Bulb", "Mario Bandstand" (NOT "Toad Bandstand"), "Shy Guy Says", "Move to the Music", "Bobsled Run", "Look Away", "Archer Rival", "Cake Factory", "Grab Bag".

Totally awful new Mini-games that I hope you never have to play: Any of the "Game Guy" games. These games can only be won by pure luck, and if you lose, you lose all your coins. Very annoying if you were planning on getting a star that turn.