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Category: Video Games
Buy New: $59.99
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Rating:  452 reviews
Sales Rank: 2
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Genre: kart_racing_and_flying_games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Nintendo Wii
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
MPN: WI-RVLRRMCE
Model: rvlrrmce
UPC: 045496901004
EAN: 0045496901004
Release Date: April 27, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 THANK YOU NINTENDO May 2, 2008
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
1ST Thing Buyer's need 2 know br /Mariokart Wii is like any other drug once you have a Taste you can't get enough (GTA IV isn't the only major Title that will take over your life!)br /br /This game does something very few games tend to do in these crazy times of HD-Games, Super over Priced hardware, and one 2 many br /First Person Shooter's,br /And what does this game do quit simply It makes you feel like a kid on X-Mas day w/ your imagination soring! You actually feel Young,Care free and have fun!!!! br /br /The Wii Wheel surprised me (It works better then i ever would've thought! It also brings a new twist on how to Play a game like this!)br /br /The online play also is Close to Flawless ***** (Maybe one day XBox Live with be Free like Nintendo Wi-Fi is!)br /br /Anyone with a Wii must own this Masterpiece of Gaming Fun!br /br /Sound/Audio -9.5/10br /Graphics -10/10 (It's a Nintendo 1st Party title,the colors-Graphics are full rich and colorful like being at a rave party within a hours time you will hear the colors talk to you lol) Jerry Garcia would be Proud!!!!!!!!!br /Game Play 10/10 FLAWLESS Anyone can pick it up and play 6-60yrs old. **Fun,Crazy, Fun,Crazy, Fun!!!!!!br /Overall the game is Wii's **Must own Game** 10/10br /
Great family arcade style game. May 2, 2008
38 out of 40 found this review helpful
I have never owned a Mario Kart before so can't compare to the other versions but this one for the Wii is a fun game. I was worried before I bought that the Wii wheel would not work very well. I was way wrong, I think it works very well. br /br /The tracks and game play are a lot of fun for someone of any age. The game is easy to learn for beginners and is fun for the more experienced gammer. The game reminds me of something you would play at an arcade with all kinds of things going on as you drive through the course. Playing against friends is a lot of fun a well. br /br /I tried out the on line play and it was a blast. I just had fun compared to some of the xbox/ps3 on line racing games where it can be stressful trying to compete and listening to angry 13 year olds. br /br /If you are looking for a game that is fun for the family, especailly the kids, I would pick this one up. Its easy to learn and a lot of fun to play.
 You have got to be kidding!! May 2, 2008
11 out of 23 found this review helpful
Mariokart Wii is nothing more than an enfeebled version of Super Smash Bros Brawl on a race track and it suffers accordingly. Super Smash Bros Brawl was outstanding, funny, enjoyable, and easy to pick up even if you were new to the series. I loved and continue to love playing Brawl, but now we come to Mariokart Wii and its numerous shortcomings ...br /br /Characters : Pointlessbr /All the usual faces are present from Mario on down to a Koopa Troopa - but so what?! Not one of them has any noticeable, distinguishable, or useful traits, skills, abilities etc. It doesn't matter who you pick to play as. Since everyone is same - why should I care to perform some outrageous/impossible feat to unlock another nobody to throw into the pool of drivers? They are just eye candy for the players' individual tastes. This brings up another issue ... since all the characters have the depth and substance of a shadow why not have more of them to pick from at the start? In truth there are only three characters ... Small, Medium and Large. This determines what they are able to drive.br /br /Vehicles : Almost Pointless br /The biggest feature of the Wii version is the introduction of motorcycles, which the Nintendo designers gave a big advantage - the wheelie speed boost. The vehicles are rated by seven attributes ...br /Top Speed ... don't worry about this. You will almost never reach it in a real race as the computer drivers will constantly hammer you (and only you) with a variety of items that will bring you to a dead stop. br /Acceleration ... this is the most important category. As I said you will be starting from a dead stop numerous (perhaps countless) times.br /Handling ... this is the only other important category. This is all about cornering on those hairpin turns that constitute a race track. It also affects your ability to hold on to curved, wet, and icy surfaces. br /Drift ... is only useful on a few courses. The speed boost you get coming out of the drift is not that great when you consider that a better cornering vehicle can run the same course in the same time.br /Weight ... this is joke. I have played the `big guys' in the `heavy' karts and been knocked off the track by the baby strollers (with no items in play). The bigger (as determined by the size of the driver and not its weight) vehicles have an advantage in frontal ramming but nothing in sideswipes or from being rear-ended. br /Off-Road ... this is a bigger joke. None of the vehicles do well off road, not even the one called the `Off-Roader.' If one wheel goes off-road, count on a huge reduction of speed regardless of any momentum that you `should have had'. Here again the cycles shine as they can cut corners much closer to the track edges before they go `off-road'. br /Mini-Boost ... `MINI' being the key word. Don't even consider this pathetic push forward as part of your `racing strategy'.br /br /License??br /I have to earn my license?! Are you kidding me? This is not Gran Turismo here. Why am I not privileged enough to race on their special tracks/battle grounds? It is not as if this is about skill or experience. You don't ever upgrade your vehicles nor earn money for bragging rights. This whole license record comes off as pretentious and should have been replaced a light and ENJOYABLE story mode like SSB Brawl did to find the extra characters and such.br /br /Racing?!br /As I said in the beginning this is an inferior version of SSB Brawl. Items/weapons are everywhere (except when you are in the lead) use them quickly because very soon (within seconds) they will be used on you and you will lose your items when hit (get used to that). It is not the `road-rage' that bothers me (I grew up on Road-Rash and similar titles). It is the planned distribution of items. In short, you will get speed boosts if you are losing and will get banana peels if you are winning. This is NOT random by any stretch of anyone's imagination. The distribution of items is designed to keep you out of the top four positions. Think I am imagining this? Challenge anyone to post on YouTube a clip of them in first place in a Grand Prix picking up mushrooms, golden mushrooms, bullet bill, lightning, star, mega mushroom, or the pow block. That is 7 out of 15 items you WILL NOT get while in the lead. Aside from the barrage of attacks that WILL strike you (you can NOT dodge/avoid the vast majority of them), you WIIL be starting from a dead stop or trying to recover control almost continuously. That makes this much more of a survival match determined by luck than an actual race determined by skill. As others have written here in the reviews you wind up feeling lucky that you won (those times that you do win) instead of any satisfaction that would come from your gaming skills as player. In a word - Frustrating.br /br /Cheating br /Everyone knows that video games cheat. They bend the rules. Some to add challenge, others to compensate for poor computer AI. This is a given in video gaming and always has been. The only question is where do you draw your own personal line of `that is too much'? Unfortunately Mariokart Wii crossed way over that line for me. I have been chased by a cpu kart that has threw six (yes SIX) green shells at me while I took the only item pick ups available on a straight away. Where did the extra three come from? How did he `reload'? Is my kart really a lightning rod with an engine? Why am I getting two blue shells on me at the same? Will the first one miss? Just how many speed boosts do the other guys have and why can't I find/get them? Yes it is that bad. My friends compared it to playing Counter Strike on an open server where all the other players are using hacks, but not you. Sure, you COULD still win. Yes, it is a DIFICULT challenge to overcome. But is it satisfying? Should you have to go through that just to unlock some character or vehicle that STILL WILL NOT even the odds let alone put them in your favor? In Grand Prix mode (4 races for a cup) the cpu will let you do better in the first two races, disappoint you in the third and utterly burn you in the last. It sort of builds your hopes up than dashes them suddenly at the finale. You better come to this game in the frame of mind that says I want some MINDLESS fun (like in SSB Brawl) and NOT I plan on winning this race. br /br /Optionsbr /There are very few choices in the games set up. So I hope that you like it THEIR way. You can not race the Grand Prix with friends (you stand the trial alone). You can only turn the items/weapons off in one mode and actually race but this unlocks nothing - ever. Overall this game is designed for the internet and not so much for multiplayer at home - too bad. br /br /Graphics/Soundbr /Both are very good but it still has some of that SSB Brawl fuzziness in the heat of battle. The characters could have used more work on their in game shouts and taunts. It gets repetitive quickly. For the sound I can't really say that I have heard the music for long over the sounds of my kart exploding, crashing, burning and falling.br /br /Ultimately this game is AVERAGE.br /It is not good - there are few options, vehicles are not customizable, characters are irrelevant, there is no story. It is NOT a race where skill and knowledge of the track means anything.br /It is not bad - it is funny/ridiculous, graphics and sound are good, the controls are adequate and smooth, it is fun to play but actually more fun to play with others.br /Mariokart Wii leaves you thinking that this could have been a great game with one or two changes depending on your personal tastes, but somehow wound up meeting no ones taste enough to become great.
 Sweey May 2, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I personally like this game. I agree with when you get hit you come to a complete stop don't really like that. Or the fact it doesnt have all the old tracks then new ones are pretty sweet I might add. All in all I like the game alot!!!!!!!
 Lame... May 2, 2008
6 out of 24 found this review helpful
I pre-ordered this game because I consider(ed) myself a hardcore Mario Kart fan, and instantly broke it out of the box and started playing. There are several things that make this game fun, but almost every single time I play, I can't help getting upset and putting down the controller, swearing to never play again - and then picking up Grand Theft Auto IV. It seems like every race I'm leading from laps 1 - 3, and then on the third lap I get hit by three red shells AND a blue shell, and then I end up in 11th place. I must just have the worst luck, but I'm getting sick of this game - and fast. They've almost taken the skill out of the game, you only rely on annoying new items.br /br /Pros:br /-Online Multiplayerbr /-New charactersbr /br /br /Cons:br /-New items that affect multiple playersbr /-New carts / motorcycles that are essentially pointlessbr /-VS battles with up to 6 computer players that cannot be changedbr /-Problems with Nintendo multiplayer serversbr /-Boring new race tracks and ruined classic tracksbr /
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