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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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Nintendo
• Model: rvlrrmce
• Released on: 2008-04-11
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platform: Nintendo Wii
• Dimensions: .0" h x .0" w x .0" l, .44 pounds

Features

•  For the first time ever, players will havethe option of racing with karts or a brand new mode of transport ? bikes
• Usingbikes as your chosen method will offer up some interesting gameplaypossibilities, such as doing a "wheelie", which in turn will give youa boost that could be crucial and make that all-important difference at thefinishing line
• Players will also be able to hit the road as their own personalised Mii charactersin Mario Kart games, in addition to many classic characters ? and even somenever-before-seen faces! In keeping with the rest of the series, Mario Kart Wiifeatures adrenaline pumping racing action, a plethora of power-ups and massesof objects for players to use to slow down their rivals
• And with 10 battlearenas, players are sure to be kept busy between trips around the circuit

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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.

Wii Wheel Included!

New Intense Tracks and Tricks View larger.

Cool new car designs View larger.

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

Not up to standard of previous games
2 player options limited, so much so that it becomes pointless very quickly without online play (which produces error messages more often than not). On its way to the charity shop very shortly,

A big step backwards...from the SNES version! Gimmicky.
Oh dear. Whatever happened to the game i remember on the Super Nintendo??? What was once an exciting, addictive, responsive, challenging game has been reduced to this gimmick. I had to plug in my SNES and play the real thing, such was my disappointment and disbelief at what i'd witnessed on the wii. As mentioned by another reviewer, you feel detatched from the action due mainly to poor control and general randomness of the outcome of both the driving and the races.

What is the point of a driving game that gives you no feel of how well you are doing, other than the race position you currently are in? There is no sense of how fast or slow you are going? If only they had not made the game so messy, with so much going on, and made it more responsive (the inclusion of an option to play using the old style '+' controller would have been nice). I actually found that my driving was more successfull the less i moved the wheel, and, infact, not moving it much meant the kart was almost guided round the easier sections of the track by itself! Driving a real car is so far removed from this game, it's just not funny. Ironic, seeing as Nintendo have introduced steering wheel type control. The steering also has a glitch which means you're turning the wheel hard one way but your kart is turning the other way! Maybe on the next ninendo console it'll be better? I'll be playing the SNES version until then.

Overall: About as exciting as watching the national lottery draw with no ticket. No longevity in this at all. For kids only.

Short Mario Review :)
Well after a long wait the game finally arrived under the tree...
And it was worth the wait!
Waht a fab game!
Fun, Exiting, Exhilarating and Great graphics...
Only thing is its hard at first
but you will get better!
Great fun for the whole family!