My Mario Kart Wii review

[Words Of Wisdom]

RolStoppable said:

Chrizum said:

GAMEPLAY: 9.0
Control is a very good or very bad, depending on your choice. The Wii Wheel sucks in my opinion. It's just way too loose for a game as frantic as MK. However, the Wiimote + Nunchuck combo is even better than the Gamecube controller! Powersliding works like a charm, snaking is removed, as well as all other annoying features MK was known for. The AI doesn't cheat anymore, which is a first for a MK title. Multiplayer is a blast as always, but online really works well too, and is probably more fleshed out than Brawl. This game is the ultimate Mario Kart!

The AI didn't cheat in DD and DS, you could easily pull ahead of the bulk.

In Mario Kart Wii it is unfair hard to get triple star ranks in the higher classes in GP mode, or maybe it's just me who has that much bad luck. For a triple star rank you have to win every race and have a low total time. The latter is hardly possible because the Coms seem to get so many annoying items like blue shells and the worst of all, the POW block. Unless you are lucky through all four races of a GP, you really have no chance to secure a triple star rank. I can't be that bad in the game since I have already beat most of the staff ghosts in time attack.

One thing you didn't mention in your review is that the framerate in 3 and 4 player modes is significantly lower than in 1 and 2 player modes.

The AI didn't seem cheat in the original either.  You could lap pretty much everyone if you were good enough.