tastyshovelware on 21 February 2008
Of course, there is a lot of hype for this game. It's a mario kart title. Everyone knows mario and most people are fans of his kart racing antics.
As a wii owner and fan of the original title and mario kart 64, I have to admit I am looking forward to this game. There is one thing that stands in the way of me feeling that everything's fine and the next installment will be fun to play. That thing :::braces for impact::: is double dash. I know fans everyone love the game but I really can't see it. I'm pretty sure if you removed the mario characters and replaced them with stock characters then the view of the game would be much different.
I really have to agree with IGN when they 7.9d it. It was slow, it added little new to the series, it still had only 16 race tracks, and the battle arena stages were terrible. Not a bad overall experience, but nothing that makes me think that mario kart wii will be one of the top ten games of the year.
To be fair, the numbers for the new game are looking strong. 12 player online, 32 stages, probably around 2 dozen characters. So hopefully this time around, it will feel like a true sequel instead of mario kart 64: 3. (Hopefully the rumors of nintendo nerfing the difficulty won't hold water).
