Stars are usually attained by purchase at the specific space on the board where it is set, with the star location changing to another space after every acquisition. The length of a game can vary as the predetermined number of minigames is adjustable in multiples of 5.
A set number of these are required to purchase a star, with the victor being the character with the most stars at the end of the game. A minigame follows each round of four turns, which yields a coin prize for the winner. As with most board games, each participant takes turns in rolling a dice block (1 to 10) to determine the number of spaces moved on the board. Players can arrange their characters into opposing pairs, or play independently in a battle royale. The game features 8 playable characters, although they do not have any different gameplay attributes from each other (save for favouring certain items when controlled by the AI ). Mario Party 4 is based on an interactive board game played by 4 characters from the Mario series, which are controlled either by the player or the game's Artificial Intelligence (AI). It won the Family Game of the Year award at the Interactive Achievement Awards of 2003, and was followed by Mario Party 5 in 2003.Ĭharacters must hit a dice block to move forward on the board the mushroom represents an Item Shop. Mario Party 4 was met with positive reception, although there were several complaints regarding a lack of originality and slow pacing during games. Each turn is followed by a minigame in which characters compete for coins they can use to purchase items and stars. Each character's movement is determined by a roll of a die, with a roll from each player forming a single turn.
The objective is to earn as many stars as possible, which are obtained by purchase from a single predefined space on the game board. Like the previous games in the series, it features eight playable characters: Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, Yoshi, Wario, Donkey Kong, Princess Daisy, and Waluigi from the Mario series, who can be directed as characters on 6 themed game boards.
The game is the fourth installment in the Mario Party series and is the first game in the series to be released for the GameCube. Mario Party 4 ( Japanese: マリオパーティ4, Hepburn: Mario Pātī Fō) is a 2002 party video game developed by Hudson Soft and published by Nintendo for the GameCube.