Never played the story mode, only online
Online mode goes as following
You need a Mii, this becomes You, your Mii gets linked to your profile, so the name you use on your Mii will become your ingame name on the Mario Strikers server, don\'t worry about name clashing, i don\'t think that will happen
Anyway, after selecting the online mode, you come to a lobby of sorts, 2 options for group play and pratise i believe using friend codes
and another 2 to do with random match ups, you don\'t need friend codes to play online, at least not on the version i have
Anyways, you select your characters, be it Mario, Luigi etc, after being matched up, and 3 side kicks
When matched to a player the level loads, and the game begis
The game uses brilliantly the Wiimote, it is REALLY fun online, you could lose yourself for hours just random matching against people
infact i reccomend whole heartidly to give this game a chance, you cant go wrong
perfect little multiplayer game
Also you can play tournament mode offline, if you can call it that, where the cpu gets progressively more difficult each match
Dont let the 26-0 victorys put you off if you love megastrike