Mario Strikers Battle League

Mario Strikers: Battle League, known in Europe and Australia as Mario Strikers: Battle League Football, is an upcoming association football/soccer video game developed by Next Level Games and Nintendo EPD and published by Nintendo. It is the third game in the Mario Strikers series. Mario Strikers: Battle League is a five versus five association football/soccer video game. The game maintains the main premise of the sport, where players maneuver players around a field in efforts to pass and shoot a ball into a goal to score points, with the team with the most points at the end of a game winning the game. Items often function in the same way as Mario Kart or Mario Tennis - banana peels can be placed on the field and characters will slip on them, while shells can be shot at characters to temporarily knock them over. No "out of bounds" exists on the field, instead, an electric fence is placed around the field, which players can check and knock opposing characters into. Additionally, collecting a glowing orb that appears on the field allows the player to perform a "Hyper Strike" and score a 2-point goal if the move is charged up without interruption. In the game, the player picks a major Mario franchise character like Mario or Princess Peach - and a team of three other characters to round out the rest of the team. All characters have various strengths and weaknesses, and Battle League additionally allows for the customization of equipment on characters as well, affecting character's stats for things like speed, strength, and pass accuracy. Up to eight players can play local multiplayer matches, with player using just one Joycon each, allowing for four versus four game, with the computer handling goalkeeping.