My Mario Kart Wii review

[BengaBenga]

Some of my impressions:

Graphics
Compared to games like Metroid3 and Super Mario Galaxy this is a sub-par delivery from Nintendo. Still it is better than I expected after reading the previews. Graphics are very clean, course design is awesome but the character models are not good. I tried Donkey Kong on a motorbike and it was annoying to look at.
No framedrops or lag anywhere.

Wii Wheel
I don't know yet. It's too loose for my taste. For the motorbikes it actually works quite well, since tilting will make you go flat through corners. For the karts it's no recommendation.

Online
AMAZING. Everything works flawlessly. Within a minute you're in a race. I've done several 12 player matches with 8 Europeans and 4 Japanese players. NO lag at all. Pure mayhem.
This makes the package a must have for every Wii owner. Mario Kart must be the best game to play online ever.

Content
Nintendo outdone itself here. 32 courses, lots of characters, lots of vehicles. Definitely a more complete package than any previous console MK. The old courses are brilliant, although I must say they picked the worst GC courses (Peach Beach meh). The SNES ones are an absolute deja vu.
50 cc is too slow, 100 cc is ok but the 150 cc absolutely has that fast MK experience. Most gamers will play 150 cc most of the time anyway, so that's hardly a problem.

All in all a very addictive, very good and very complete experience. If they would have excelled at the graphics like they did in Metroid and SMG it would have been perfect.