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| From: Nintendo
Category: Video Games
List Price: £39.99
Buy New: £31.90
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Avg. Customer Rating:  121 reviews
Sales Rank: 9
Platform: Nintendo Wii
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
MPN: WI-RVLRRMCE
Model: rvlrrmce
UPC: 045496901004
EAN: 0045496901004
Release Date: April 11, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Brilliant! June 7, 2008
Fantastic game, won't go into too much detail as others have done that already!
Excellent game and if your friends have this aswell, you can play on line, well worth every penny!
 Magic mushvroom (but not always a fungi to be with) June 5, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
It's beautiful, bright, cheerful, colourful and good-natured. Everyone loves this game, including me. Any negative reviews would be churlish and unfounded. So for the sake of balance I'm going to start this review by listing all of Mario Kart's BAD points.
1.The menu system is cumbersome with not enough escape routes. For example, you pick your player class, then your vehicle, then the race series (on Grand Prix mode). It's then that you realise that you want to play a race series that is unsuitable for the character class you've picked: for example, you've picked a light character when a heavy character would be more suitable. A decent menu system would let you pick a different character at this point, but instead you have to press B all the way back to the first menu and choose again. Likewise, if you want to quit a race series because you've finished 12th on two consecutive races and have no chance of getting a podium finish (this happens A LOT) you press the pause button and want the option to re-start the series with the current character settings. Unfortunately the option is not there, and you have to go all the way back to the root menu and select everything again. Bor-ing.
2.If you're used to playing more `serious' race games, you will be struck by how slow the game seems. It seems quick enough once you've played it a bit though.
3.The wheel. Great gimmick and one of the things that sold the game to me, but not much use as a controller. It's not precise enough when you get to the trickier 150cc races and you'll revert to the more ergonomically friendly nunchuck option.
4.All that unlockable content! Well, the mirror courses require you to get gold cups in all the 150cc races, which is rather tough because of the `catch up' nature of the game. Basically, to get anywhere near the front of the pack you have to (a) hold a perfect line on every lap, (b) get lucky enough that you are not zapped off the track by the AI racers, and (c) get the right power-ups that enable you to zap the miraculously good AI pack leaders out of the way. Failure in any of these areas (the last two of which are down to sheer luck) results in you getting mercilessly zapped, rammed, spun and shunted off track by every single racer in the game. How many times have I been in first place for two straight laps, and then relegated to 12th with half a lap to go on the third lap? Lots. How many times have I wanted to clobber my Wii to death with the nunchuck used in its traditional martial art sense when this happens? Again, lots. All it takes is one red shell followed by every other kart ramming you and preventing you from recovering, and it's game over. Not fair!
5.The bikes. Far too much glide around corners, far too vulnerable to ramming, and not as much boost available as there is to karts. Not really worth having, on the whole. Oh well.
6.Battle mode. Don't even get me started.
7.The driving rating system. You get a rating for how well you drive on a race series (two stars, one star, A, B, and so on). Some unlockable content requires you to get one or two stars on every race series. However, at no point are you informed HOW you were rated. So, you win every race, and maybe even get the fastest lap one every race (not often, mind you), but you still end up getting a B rating or something rubbish like that. How is this rating made? We may never know. Frustrating!
8.Game options. Number of laps? Car view? Sound and music? Power-up availability options (PLEASE let me disable the blue shell!)? Er, no. Being able to view the car from a bit further back would be the top of my wish list for options, since it is not always easy to see where you're going, especially when you get the `grow massive' mushroom. You take up so much space on the screen that you're liable to drive right off the track because you can't see where you're going!
9. On the same subject, some power-ups are more trouble than they're worth because if you go too fast, you can't corner well enough to stay on the track. But you have to use them in order to pick up new power-ups that might be useful to you. Why can't you just dump stuff you can't use? A catch 22 and no mistake!
Still, let's not be too harsh. After that, this game is all good. If someone came up with crack cocaine-coated peanuts, they would not be as addictive as this game. It looks good, it plays very well, the sounds and music are nice, practice pays off well most of the time, and it combines pick-up-and playability for the newbie with some ridiculously tough challenges for the veteran. Most of all, it's an awful lot of fun. Multiplayer is a right laugh, and that's when the catch-up features, a fault in the single-player game, become a virtue. Well deserving of its bestseller status, but not without its flaws.
Great fun - just don't take it too seriously June 4, 2008
My Mother-In-Law bought me this for my (32nd) birthday. On my birthday she phoned from work (where unfounded rumours of 'hubby coercing' were spreading) asking if I had been coerced into asking for it by her son (Hubby). I promised her that I wanted the game, having had all the grown up Manly Wii stuff like Pro Evo yawnoid & Frustrating Tiger Woods (impossible) golf, I simply wanted a Fun Game. A game I had loved on another console YEARS ago (can't remember which) AND which doesn't disappoint on the WII. I love it, my husband loves it, our mates love it. Yes when you are 1st you get Red missiled & Ghost splattered but so? For a terrible, terrible gameplayer like moi, it's great. When you are first you can block others from catching you up & when you are last you get all the good stuff like the bullet that transports you through the dodgy bits. Childish as I am, I love it that the others do the 'Simpsons Nelson' 'haw haw' when they pass you & that your own character gives a punch of triumph when some other character gets stunned by your banana/red square. My gift had the steering wheel included - it's not about skill but all about fun. I feel like my 4 year old goddaughter when using it. One slight turn to the left and the kart is spinning up the left side (power steering, I guess) a slight jolt to the right & the same happens. I spend the whole race arm crossing to the left, arm crossing to the right, shouting at the telly, swinging my body round trying to 'swerve' my virtual kart with real body weight. It's not for the inhibited and not for the serious palyer. My only gripe? My husband talked me into playing the Grand Prix under HIS name (instead of mine) and I only got 6 hours sleep as I thought we had been playing for 30 mins and not 2 hours - hell was I grumpy at work the next day! Buy it if you're young at heart. And if you are just young, you'll whoop the bottoms of the grown ups, trust me!
It beats MarioKart 64... just June 3, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you have a wii, buy it. In my case it's what made me buy the wii. If you don't have wi-fi, still buy it!
I read a couple of the low star reviews saying things in the tone of "you've raced the perfect race, and someone hits you with a wario shell and you come 5th"....
my opinion... RUBBISH
This game has been put together with great thought and love for the mario kart franchise.
All the usual suspects are there, with more.
You can play as your mii.
It has enough unlockables to keep you plugging away, no mean feat seeing as i gave up on ff12 after completing it, and being given a guide after.
As for the online option, where do i begin.
The only complaints I have, tho probably unfounded are about battle mode...
Team battle???? Whats the point, I want to fight for myself thanks. And I genuiniely believe this could be game of the decade for Nintendo if they had put one simple thing in.... MarioKart 64 Block Fort, oh the hours of joy sustained by that in the late 90s. I guess they just want me to buy it with wii points on the 64 version, grr, clever boys.
All in all tho, believe the hype, I bought my wii with Zelda and Mario Kart 5 weeks ago, and Zelda has only has 30 mins of my time. An Awesome Video Game
wow racing game May 31, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
this game is so addictive. put a load of mario characters on buggys on wacky tracks pricless. nintendo have created a monster. and with the wii steering wheel gadget. that makes this game.
the graphics are very good for Wii cartoony and colourful. a briliant package.
i have played this online thats where the game opens up. simply awesome.
10 out of 10 for nintendo.
if you buy one game for Wii this year this has to be it.
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