Am I the only one that thinks this looks awful?

I LOVED Mario Kart on the Snes, meh on the 64 and it was ok on the GC. 

 Where'd you hear that? IGN definately said there are powerslide boosts. It's just that you automatically charge the boost while sliding, instead of having to twitch the control stick back and forth.

 LOL I don't look sily when I play Wii Sports, but I probably would if I had the golf club, tennis racket etc peripherals when I played it. The Wii Wheel is probably going to be lots of fun and I'll play it whether I'd look silly or not.

 For me, it's not power slide boosting if it doesn't have that twitching - I meant it in line with to IGN's information too.

gotcha.

It would be hard to power slide twitching the steering wheel back and forth. I'm not sure I'll be into the online just because I hate snaking. I actually like to drive.

@ Morgyn

Mario Kart has never been the kind of racer that focuses too much on graphics.

Compare for yourself:

Double Dash:
http://www.gamerevolution.com/images/games/gamecube/mario_kart_double_dash/mario_kart_double_dash_002.jpg
http://www.armchairempire.com/images/Reviews/gamecube/mario-kart-double-dash/mario-kart-double-dash-4.jpg
http://www.toase.net/gfx/mriokrt-01.jpg


MkWii
http://medialib.computerandvideogames.com/screens/screenshot_187713.jpg
http://www.gamespot.com/pages/image_viewer/frame_lead.php?pid=942008&img=21

The gamespot one has a lot of pictures (93) and they do not look like a huge upgrade graphics wise, but it look "cosier" which I really like.

Look at screen 28 on gamespot! That looks cool!

EDIT: Mario Kart Wii looks a lot better, after looking through some of the GS ones.

Look at screen 31/32, that's a DS course. It is heavily increased graphics wise. Good to know that half of the courses don't look like they did on DS

Looking at screen 34/35, I'd say it looks like Yoshi can lick people while in the air. Perhaps we can see special moves that boost speed.

The karts/characters themselves look relatively alike DD, but the courses look a lot better.

Picture 47-60ish are of courses only. They look great IMO. Have a look. Picture 53... Is that from Wii Play? The cow-game?

Picutre 55, THAT is a cool shortcut :D

Unfortunately, Miis looking at you are still 2D (see picture 56) they look really crappy.

They have 2 waluigi courses`? Isn't 59 the N64 one? Or am I wrong?

Picture 63 is close up on Bowser/DS, they look all right.

The "driving through rings missions" sees a return. Picutre 68. So does collect the coins (69)

Picture 78. That course looks AWESOME!

True, the original didn't have amazing graphics, but it was one of the first mode7 + the chip from starfox, which made it awesome.

But Doubledash looks better imho!

I'll probably rent it, but damn its fugly

Not only may this game make me go out and buy extra wheel shells, but, I am sure I will have to go buy two more wiimotes. Probably no nunchuks though. Save myself $40 by only getting wiimotes.

I went out and bought my 4th Wiimote and 2 more nunchucks the other day...I usually borrowed from a friend, but I finally bought my own. So if the Wiimote steering sucks, I've got plenty of control options now.

That one image looked like one of the SNES Ghost House stages which just happen to be my fav circuits ever, i really hope they have decided to include at least one of these in this game.
And the Feather to make use of the shortcut.