Mario Kart Wii

since this section is relatively dead, i thought id put a little preview in here
i took this of gamespot because it looked interesting
if you want to read the full article go here
http://www.gamespot.com/wii/drivi...d=6186170&tag=topslot;title;5
i read the majority of it and took the best parts

You'll initially have a total of 12 characters to choose from, broken down into three classes. The light class is made up of Baby Mario, Baby Luigi, Baby Peach, and Baby Koopa. The medium class is made up of Mario, Luigi, Peach, and Yoshi. The heavy class is made up of Wario, Donkey Kong, Waluigi, and Bowser. As you progress, you'll unlock more racers, courses, vehicles, and, most importantly, support to use your Miis. Each racer will have three vehicles to choose from in the kart and bike categories. Each vehicle will have an automatic or manual setting. Before anyone freaks out and thinks the game is going in some new realistic direction, don't. The setting refers to the game's powersliding controls. Automatic lets you automatically powerslide around corners, while manual lets you do it yourself. The downside to automatic is that you won't be able to be daring and gain speed boosts, while manual lets you tempt fate and charge up your boosts by drawing them out.

On Mario Kart Wii's main menu screen you'll find the same assortment of modes from the previous games along with some interesting online additions to the mix. There are four basic game modes with a slew of variations under each. The single-player game has you participating in 50cc, 100cc, and 150cc races. The new wrinkle here is that you'll be required to use a kart in 50cc races and a bike in 100cc races, and you can choose your own set of wheels for the 150cc races. You'll find the usual grand prix, time trial, versus, and battle variants for online or offline play. The multiplayer mode lets you play with up to four players in split-screen offline. When you're online in the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection-powered multiplayer mode, you'll be able to race with 11 other players for a total of 12 online. A nice feature of the online mode is the option to have two people play online from the same Wii for some proper team-based action.

The final gameplay-focused mode was the Mario Kart Channel, which is basically a hub for sharing information and testing your skills. You'll find leaderboards that let you check on how you stack up next to your friends, as well as ghost data from other players that you can download and compete against. You'll be able to check out worldwide player rankings for each course, along with those players' Mii designs and controller configuration preferences. Lastly, you'll find a tournament option, which is essentially a challenge mode featuring various missions for you to complete and which will ultimately offer new downloadable challenges courtesy of the WiiConnect24 feature. Outside of the game modes you'll find a license option that lets you check out all manner of tracked stats on your performance. Besides the single-player game, we got a peek at the battle mode options, which included balloon battle and coin runner games.

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Wow thanks for the preview. Whens this come out anyway? I'd love to get this, I absolutly loved the one for the ds and PLUS this one can go up to 12 players on line as opposed to the 8 on local play with the DS! And i thought that was a blast! Woo! And the option to play 2 players on one wii online sounds awesome and convenient as well. Sounds like it's going to be pretty good, can't wait.

robby are yo blind? its on the first pic! may 1st!

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i cant wait for this either!
it comes out may 1st

im amazed this hasnt had more hype

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Everyone is too consumed with Super Smash lately to care about this game haha. . .TUNNEL VISION ision ision *echoes*

I agree with Kabal and this game needs a bit of a graphics toon up for its final release, I know its still in Alpha and I shouldn't worry but I am just pointing out that the graphics are a bit rough in the screen shot.

Last edited by Shas'o Keljel on Tue Mar 04, 2008 11:13 pm; edited 1 time in total

Yea i think they do to. . .only downfall is that unlike the xbox and ps3, the wii isnt really going to be forking out the "good graphics" games do to their lesser graphics abilities. . .but they should at least push for the best that they can. . .those screen shots sure dont max out the capabilities of the wii.

They shouldn't need awesome graphics, Wii games have a cartoony feel which is too be expected and top notch. They should at least to that but as I said, there is no doupt they will, just commenting on the screen shots poor graphics quality

lets hope its better than those screenshots

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haha then you say

"They shouldn't need awesome graphics"

Dual personalities? or were you just so shocked that you agreed with me on something that you had to go and change your opinion?

I never said they didn't need them, I just said they were a little rough and need to be tuned up and smoothened which by all means probably will be done. And the agreement origanally was that I think that no one cares because of how close brawl is.

Too shay! Oh well. . .both games look cool. . .im still happy with playing it on gamecube so whether this game comes out or not, im overall pleased with how is is doing thus far.

In truth, I've sort of been looking for Wii Mario Kart and I was wondering when it would be made. All I hope is that its online.

i think may 1st is the euro release date.

i was under the impression they didn't announce a us date yet. still, can't wait to play it Smile

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if you see that i'm on the site, i'm normally up for any game.
hit me up on aim, or send me a text.

oh yea ur right
thats the european release date
i think

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Yea actually there should release this game a few months or so from now, SSBB is going to take the spotlight away from it big time and lessen it's release success by dar.

definetly
i think theyre releasing mario kart earlier in europe cuz ssbb is coming out there later Black Eyed Orc

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Hell yeah it comes out on my bday yay! I am so excited for this game. I thought the DS version was awesome, and I can't wait.

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me neither
just fyi they removed snaking!

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Is this gonna take the pokemon route and have some connectivity with the DS version (Mariokart DS)? Because that would be awesome and should be possible because the Wiii version of pokemon (battle revolution) came out after Diamond and Pearl and they made something with them (but then again, they may have had that idea from the start of development on the those games).

hm maybe
but most console<--->handheld things failed miserably

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lol
hope this game is good
the bikes are a little questionable

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i know right
and tricks XP

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ahahaha
thats gonna be pretty weird seeing mario do that O_O
im scared...

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it will be weird
remember the wario and peach motorcycle incident? XD

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ahahahha
that was awesome and disturbing at the same time.....

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it was haha
a lot of those pictures were disturbing O_O

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the hand threw warios crotch was the best

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LOL that was the best XD
i think i sent that to everyone i had added
which is you and bkonch evil4

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lol
send it to nintendo
that would be funny

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