Are you sure it is not an official trailer for a real Mario game? If so, I think that Mario Striker's Charged (a 2007 Wii sequel to the 2005 Nintendo GameCube game Super Mario Strikers) fits the closest to what you have described because it is one of the few games in the series to have receive an E10+ rating from the ESRB but it's not bloody but more realistic than other the Super Mario Bros. games.
Also, from what I read about the game, the playable team captains were Mario, Luigi, Peach, Daisy, Yoshi, Wario, Waluigi, Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong, Bowser, Bowser Jr. and Petey Piranha. The game also featured sidekicks for your teams including Birdo, Toad, Boo, Koopa Troopas, Hammer Bros., Dry Bones, Monty Moles and Shy Guys.
Are you sure it is not an official trailer for a real Mario game? If so, I think that Mario Striker's Charged (a 2007 Wii sequel to the 2005 Nintendo GameCube game Super Mario Strikers) fits the closest to what you have described because it is one of the few games in the series to have receive an E10+ rating from the ESRB but it's not bloody but more realistic than other the Super Mario Bros. games.
Also, from what I read about the game, the playable team captains were Mario, Luigi, Peach, Daisy, Yoshi, Wario, Waluigi, Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong, Bowser, Bowser Jr. and Petey Piranha. The game also featured sidekicks for your teams including Birdo, Toad, Boo, Koopa Troopas, Hammer Bros., Dry Bones, Monty Moles and Shy Guys.
I'm sorry to ask you about this approximately 10 days after the last post on here, but have you tried looking up on YouTube for any fan-made modifications of an existing game or any official released trailer for a real Super Mario Bros. game that was released on the Wii (I believe that several of the trailers for the games are still up for years after they were already released; I'm sure you probably saw a trailer for a fan-made modification that you believe saw on TV) and see if they fit your description?
Either that, or was it the cancelled 2007 Wii sports game Super Mario Strikers, as ApolloJustice has pointed out, is the only closest thing to what you have described aside from my guess on Mario Strikers Charged (the game was cancelled for Nintendo not being happy with the game's amount of violence and clashing with their code of honors; though there is no official trailer for the cancelled game or a prototype leaked to the public, a video showing the character animation prototypes and a video on it from Unseen 64's video series on cancelled video games exist).
I'm sorry to ask you about this approximately 10 days after the last post on here, but have you tried looking up on YouTube for any fan-made modifications of an existing game or any official released trailer for a real Super Mario Bros. game that was released on the Wii (I believe that several of the trailers for the games are still up for years after they were already released; I'm sure you probably saw a trailer for a fan-made modification that you believe saw on TV) and see if they fit your description?
Either that, or was it the cancelled 2007 Wii sports game Super Mario Strikers, as ApolloJustice has pointed out, is the only closest thing to what you have described aside from my guess on Mario Strikers Charged (the game was cancelled for Nintendo not being happy with the game's amount of violence and clashing with their code of honors; though there is no official trailer for the cancelled game or a prototype leaked to the public, a video showing the character animation prototypes and a video on it from Unseen 64's video series on cancelled video games exist).
I'm sorry to ask you about this approximately 10 days after the last post on here, but have you tried looking up on YouTube for any fan-made modifications of an existing game or any official released trailer for a real Super Mario Bros. game that was released on the Wii (I believe that several of the trailers for the games are still up for years after they were already released; I'm sure you probably saw a trailer for a fan-made modification that you believe saw on TV) and see if they fit your description?
Either that, or was it the cancelled 2007 Wii sports game Super Mario Strikers, as ApolloJustice has pointed out, is the only closest thing to what you have described aside from my guess on Mario Strikers Charged (the game was cancelled for Nintendo not being happy with the game's amount of violence and clashing with their code of honors; though there is no official trailer for the cancelled game or a prototype leaked to the public, a video showing the character animation prototypes and a video on it from Unseen 64's video series on cancelled video games exist).
I thought Mario strikers was released.
Mario Strikers Charged for the Wii was released in 2007, I just kind of mixed up both the game that was released and the one that was cancelled (plus, it's actual name was Super Mario Spikers and another working title for it was Mario Volleyball before the developers at Next Level Games decided to add in wrestling elements into the game). It doesn't help that they both have very similar sounding names and were both developed in 2007 (just to clarify again, Mario Strikers Charged WAS released, but Super Mario Spikers never got too far into development beyond a functional prototype shown to Nintendo).
Here is more information on Super Mario Spikers to avoid confusion with Mario Strikers Charged:
I probably should have clarified that these looked like realistic humans, like those you'd see in Grand Theft Auto, but they were dressed like Mario characters.
I probably should have clarified that these looked like realistic humans, like those you'd see in Grand Theft Auto, but they were dressed like Mario characters.
This revelation raises the question if the trailer you were looking for was actually a fan-made modification for a Grand Theft Auto game that was released on the PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360. As far as I know, the Grand Theft Auto series has one of the most popular and dedicated fan modding communities that creates new content and makes re-skins of existing characters. The same can be said for the Super Mario Bros. franchise (which now has its own official level creator called Super Mario Maker for the Wii U and Nintendo 3DS), The Sims series (which allowed custom content from the start), and even Jurassic Park: Trespasser, a PC game that barely sold 50,000 copies and was noted for being too admittedly ambitious for the time and having several bugs and glitches, have dedicated modding communities willing to create new content and levels for the games they love and maybe fix up some bugs the original game suffered from.
Back on track, if you said that the Super Mario Bros. characters looked like realistic humans in the Grand Theft Auto series, I suggest looking up on YouTube for a specific game in the series and search for fan-made modifications for that said game, I'm sure you'll find plenty of mods of the game in question and maybe find one similar to your own description.
I probably should have clarified that these looked like realistic humans, like those you'd see in Grand Theft Auto, but they were dressed like Mario characters.
This revelation raises the question if the trailer you were looking for was actually a fan-made modification for a Grand Theft Auto game that was released on the PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360. As far as I know, the Grand Theft Auto series has one of the most popular and dedicated fan modding communities that creates new content and makes re-skins of existing characters. The same can be said for the Super Mario Bros. franchise (which now has its own official level creator called Super Mario Maker for the Wii U and Nintendo 3DS), The Sims series (which allowed custom content from the start), and even Jurassic Park: Trespasser, a PC game that barely sold 50,000 copies and was noted for being too admittedly ambitious for the time and having several bugs and glitches, have dedicated modding communities willing to create new content and levels for the games they love and maybe fix up some bugs the original game suffered from.
Back on track, if you said that the Super Mario Bros. characters looked like realistic humans in the Grand Theft Auto series, I suggest looking up on YouTube for a specific game in the series and search for fan-made modifications for that said game, I'm sure you'll find plenty of mods of the game in question and maybe find one similar to your own description.
I guess I also should have clarified that I didn't mean that I thought the game had any relation to Grand Theft Auto. I said the characters looked as realistic as humans in video games looked at the time, and Grand Theft Auto was the first game to come to mind. When I say "realistic", I mean like on the level of Grand Theft Auto, Hitman, Call of Duty, etc.. This couldn't be a game from any of those franchises as it was a fighting game.
What channel did you see the commercial? cable or terrestrial?
There's no way of telling. This was a long time ago, and I only vaguely remember any of it. Honestly it could've been a dream or something, but it feels like I remember actually seeing it.