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| Mario Kart (Wii) | 
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Category: Video Games
List Price: £39.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  111 reviews
Sales Rank: 2
Platform: Nintendo Wii
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
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MPN: WI-RVLRRMCE
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UPC: 045496901004
EAN: 0045496901004
Release Date: April 11, 2008
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Product Description
Take your place on the starting grid and prepare for high-speed racing action in Mario Kart Wii. Use the Wii Wheel (included) to steer your way round 32 tracks and race against friends to see who is king of the road! You can slow down the opposition or give yourself a handy speed boost by using a variety of helpful items, or pull off spectacular stunts on your way to the finish line. There's even the option of mixing with Mario and co. by racing as your Mii. Get in gear and join a race that everyone can enjoy!
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Drivers, start your engines! Nintendo is bringing Mario and his friends with their finely tuned racing machines back and this time to the Nintendo Wii. With 3 different control styles and a Wii Wheel included in the box, Mario Kart Wii is bound to be the best in the series. The worldwide race is on with a whole new set of tricks, tracks, and ways to play! Place first in Grand Prix circuits or clear skill-based missions. Mario Kart Wii draws on courses and battle arenas from every game in the series - not to mention tons of new ones - the true king of the Mushroom Kingdom racing circuits will finally be crowned. 
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New Intense Tracks and Tricks
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Cool new car designs
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Mario and his friends are back and ready to race once again in Mario Kart Wii! Experience new tracks, enhanced Wii graphics, extraordinary gameplay and much more! Place first in Grand Prix circuits or clear skill-based missions to open up increasingly difficult and thrilling circuits. Players can have multiplayer races on any open courses or battle in arenas. Also included with Mario Kart Wii is the Wii Wheel! Now you can feel like your Mario and steering to avoid obstacles and doing incredible stunts - in the safety of your home of course.
Game Features:- The Wii Wheel transforms the Wii Remote; controller into a steering wheel that feels natural in anyone's hands, while the Wii Remote and Nunchuk; controller offer a classic control style for the Mario Kart veteran. In either configuration, players can perform speed-boosting tricks with a shake of the Wii Remote.
- Players can race as their favourite Nintendo character, or even as themselves! Mario Kart Wii lets players race with their personalized Mii; characters. And racers will see other Mii characters they have created cheering from the sidelines on some race courses.
- Players can compete with up to three friends in their living room. Or challenge up to 11 opponents via Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection in the biggest Mario Kart race yet. All tracks and modes of play are available via Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, and players can visit the Mario Kart Channel to compete in tournaments, check rankings, see when their friends are playing and download ghost data.
- Cruise new tracks and arenas or tour classic courses from Super Mario Kart;, Mario Kart; 64, Mario Kart;: Super Circuit;, Mario Kart;: Double Dash!!; and Mario Kart; DS. Tired of riding on four wheels? Bust out one of the new motorbikes for special tricks and techniques.
Characters
Nintendo favourites Mario;, Luigi;, Peach;, Yoshi;, Donkey Kong;, Wario;, Bowser; and Toad;, plus a host of new faces-including your own! Get into the game and put your Mii; character behind the wheel. Special Powers/Weapons/Moves/Features
Whether racing around an obstacle-filled track or battling in an arena, drifting and tossing items are the keys to Mario Kart success. Players can shake the Wii Remote while launching off a ramp to pull off a trick that will temporarily boost their speed. When riding a bike, players can gain additional speed by flicking the Wii Remote up and popping a wheelie Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection:
Keeping in the tradition of Mario Kart, Nintendo has pushed multiplayer racing even further utilizing the Wii's built in Wi-Fi Connection. There are two options for races and battles over Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection: up to 12 people via Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection or up to 10 people via Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection with two people playing locally.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 106 more reviews...
 Amazing, Best One Yet!! July 19, 2008
I got this game a couple of days after it came out and i am glad i did. It is a great party game that is fun for everyone that plays on it. I have played on it with six different friends and family and they have all said it was great and i agree.
GAMEPLAY
The gameplay is fantastic, the items and way that you can play online against the rest of world is great and a good feature, also the way they have set up tournaments and ghost battles is fantastic and really does give another dimension to the game. As well as this, i like the way you can use both the wii wheel and nunchuck with the wiimote as controls and it uses the features of the wiimote excellently.
GRAPHICS
The graphics on this game are just normal wii graphics, nothing more nothing less but dont let this put you off, the fun and the way you play the game is great and really does take your mind off the graphics, which arent actually that bad anyway. Really, you cant compare the graphics to anything on the PS3 because there is not a game anything like this one on the PS3 or XBOX 360.
GAME FEATURES
This game includes a grand prix to complete on 50,100 and 150cc classes with 50cc being the easiest and the 150cc being the hardest, the grand prix is great and really is one of the factors that keeps you addicted and stuck to the game. Also, the time trials, battles and just normal races help improve your game and get you ready to compete online or in a grand prix. THe online play is fantastic as long as you have wireless connection of course. It is a good idea how you can pick whether you want to play friends, continentally or worldwide as if you are a rookie at this game it is a good idea to just do continentally first to get used to it.
SHELF LIFE (How long you can play on it for without getting bored)
The shelf life for this game is probably one of the best for games on the wii for the simple fact that no one race is the same and that there is so many different courses its hard to get bored. Also with all the features as well it is hard to not play this game regularly.
This game is great is you have 2 or more controllers to play multiplater of just on your own, it really doesnt matter it fun either way,
GAMEPLAY 9/10
GRAPHICS 7/10
GAME FEATURES 10/10
SHELF LIFE 9/10
Abosoluntly Brilliant!! July 17, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This game is obviously the best game.
The graphics are brilliant the set up of the game is easy to use, and the steering wheel makes it even more exciting. You can also choose from the a varies of characters (more then the ds version). Some of the tracks are the same as the ds versioon such as "yoshi falls" and "Delfino Square" but the new items and characters makes them even better. Also you can go online and play with your friends however you may get frustrated when other users cheat, which when they fall they recover back on the track in about 1 second (if that makes any sense).
Overall the game is very very entertaining and would recommend it to anyone who has second thoughts on this game
 Mario Kart on the Wii? I nearly wet myself when I heard... July 14, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Well, not quite; but I hope that gives you an idea about how excited I was that it was coming out. But as I've had time to mellow, and reflect on the latest edition of this ever-popular franchise, it almost seems like a completely different game to the wondrous, bright thrill-ride in my mind.
Mario Kart Wii is an interesting game. It grapples with a lot of 'new stuff' that wasn't a complication for the franchise last time out. With online racing, the Wii-mote and twelve on-track racers, things sure have moved on. There have been some good successes, and some not so good ones.
The visual presentation is very Nintendo. Bright colours, an upbeat and bouncy soundtrack and an undying loyalty to the retro gamers has set a good precedent for the new flagship racer for a console that dearly needs one.
But it can't quite hold itself as a great game. Sure, it's a good one, a very good one, possibly. Leaving (or joining) your kids to play online or off will almost doubtless be a fun, safe thing (as two can play online at the same time, but you can't communicate with other racers, which feels a bit patronising, and puts up resistance to a loyal, thriving Mario Kart community). But for those of us looking for more, the cracks will begin to show.
There are sixteen new tracks, which is pretty standard, but even with the thirty-two total, it'll soon feel like it's not quite enough. Especially since quite a few of the tracks are various incarnations of the same 'worlds'.
A magazine, I can't remember which, raised great points in that the focus has definitely moved away from the huddled-family environment (and done further damage to themselves by not encouraging online communications and communities), and that most skills or expertise go straight out the window in this edition. These are great points because, quite simply, they have.
I have four GameCube controllers, four Wii-motes and four Nunchuks, and only once, have my three siblings and I all jumped onto the couch together for a good family bash. This is because, it's really not that good. I can't quite put my finger on it, but the new style of gaming feels a bit, well, pointless.
'Mario Kart: Wii' still retains that hectic, exciting feel, but the driving style, despite all the new gizmos and the so-called 'expert mode', have all been engineered to help your little sister finish first (by making it as stupidly-easy as humanly possible). Only some of the tougher tracks will provide an obstacle, and in the harder Mario Kart GP difficulties, a weapon-savvy approach.
The only tactics that really remain lie in the weapons and your position on the track. Nintendo seem to be aware of this, and it can be fun. But it doesn't quite make up for the general lack of skill in this game that really let a lot of the more serious gamers down.
Overall, 'Mario Kart: Wii' is continuing to tow the latest Nintendo publicity campaign for easy gaming. It's a pick-up-and-play, disposable racer (even the design for the Wii-wheel isn't really trying to encourage you to keep gaming past half an hour or so, with the acceleration button awkwardly placed). With some depth, but almost no skill required, you won't be finding yourself spending much time on this after the first (action-packed) week or so. This is, overall, a little underwhelming, and I wonder if, these days, Nintendo are trying a bit too hard to get your grandmother into video games.
A Modern Classic July 7, 2008
Having played Mario Kart games for nearly 15 years from the early days of the never beaten SNES version, I had hoped for an improvement on more recent versions of the game, Mario Kart DS excepted.
Graphically and gameplay wise this is not much of a step up from the much maligned double dash on the cube. However the tracks are a little better developed with many secrets to dicover that rewards continuous play.The move to 12 racers is inspired and gives the races a frantic feel not seen since the original SNES version.
The control methods are varied enough to suit everyones tastes. The wheel is a nice idea, if a little gimmicky, that is a little unresponsive and particularly difficult to use on some of th more advanced tracks. I found that the cube controller was by far the winner.
What sets this game apart from the more recent mario kart games is the online play. The worldwide set up is easy and connects you quickly to players all over the world. Surprisingly the races proceed without any lag or any significant connection problems. This makes it hard to understand why nintendo made such a fist of the Super Smash Bros online play. The one player games are not particularly challenging, however there is always a good challenge to be found online.
This is an essential purchase, even for those who are not mario kart fanatics.
 Mario Kart still rules June 29, 2008
There's not a lot that can be said about this game that hasn't already been said in the myriad of previous reviews.
It's a fabulous game, pure enjoyment throughout - there's nothing new really - it's just an update on mario kart, but why try and fix something that 'ain't broken?!
Online play is tremendous, adds even more longevity to the game.
If you're looking for a fun, easy to play game, look no further than mario kart.
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