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dsoverpsp on 26 April 2008
FreeTalkLive said:
I've seen a couple dozen reviews and they were all good. Which reviews are you talking about?

 he's just talking about the overall rating average (on sites like gamerankings)



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Shameless on 26 April 2008

Here's my quick review of the game:

The graphics are pretty much identical to the gamecube especially on the old tracks, while looking slightly better on the new tracks. They are far from the best on the Wii and end up looking slightly washed out on my screen, however.
There are now 3(!) power-ups that affect all the racers on the track and the blue shell is still in the game to blow up the first place driver, much to my annoyance. Also snaking is out, making the game far too easy in my opinion. Winning in Mario Kart Wii is now mostly based on luck.

As for new features, motorbikes handle mostly the same as the karts and the tricks are pretty fun to pull off. The new tracks are decent too with plenty of shortcuts to find and master.

The soundtrack in the game isn't that bad but none of the tracks stand out. The voice acting is predictably annoying.

Graphics - 7
Gameplay - 8
Sound - 7
Lasting appeal - 8

Overall 7.5



Phendrana on 26 April 2008

I've only seen 3 bad reviews. Edge and some other place gave it a 60. EGM gave it like a C+ average. Everything else was 80 or higher. I'm going to explode from anticipation if I can't find this at midnight.

Oh, bleu-ocelot, you're such a freaking troll and I hope you get banned.



dsoverpsp on 26 April 2008
Phendrana said:
I've only seen 3 bad reviews. Edge and some other place gave it a 60. EGM gave it something like a C+ average. Everything else was 80 or higher. I'm going to explode from anticipation if I can't find this at midnight.

Oh, bleu-ocelot, you're such a freaking troll and I hope you get banned.

 IMO, i think 80+ is decent. Just that some ppl expect it to be like SMG



kn on 26 April 2008
Shameless said:
Here's my quick review of the game:

The graphics are pretty much identical to the gamecube especially on the old tracks, while looking slightly better on the new tracks. They are far from the best on the Wii and end up looking slightly washed out on my screen, however.
There are now 3(!) power-ups that affect all the racers on the track and the blue shell is still in the game to blow up the first place driver, much to my annoyance. Also snaking is out, making the game far too easy in my opinion. Winning in Mario Kart Wii is now mostly based on luck.

As for new features, motorbikes handle mostly the same as the karts and the tricks are pretty fun to pull off. The new tracks are decent too with plenty of shortcuts to find and master.

The soundtrack in the game isn't that bad but none of the tracks stand out. The voice acting is predictably annoying.

Graphics - 7
Gameplay - 8
Sound - 7
Lasting appeal - 8

Overall 7.5

If snaking were still in the game and operated just as it did in previous iterations of the game, what would you score it as? 



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Phendrana on 26 April 2008
dsoverpsp said:
Phendrana said:
I've only seen 3 bad reviews. Edge and some other place gave it a 60. EGM gave it something like a C+ average. Everything else was 80 or higher. I'm going to explode from anticipation if I can't find this at midnight.

Oh, bleu-ocelot, you're such a freaking troll and I hope you get banned.

IMO, i think 80+ is decent. Just that some ppl expect it to be like SMG


Definitely. I think 80+ is a good score for an important game like MK while 70+ is a nice range for everything else. 



dib8rman on 26 April 2008

Yea, I was commenting for the ones that gave it a 6/10 kind of deal, but a 8/10 would depend on where those 2 points went.

A game shouldn't lose points on difficulty unless its battle toads level diffculty and higher.

(ahh battle toads... it wasn't until I the internet that I realized that game was just hard and I wasn't the onlyone
that sucked.)



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Shameless on 26 April 2008
kn said:
Shameless said:
Here's my quick review of the game:

The graphics are pretty much identical to the gamecube especially on the old tracks, while looking slightly better on the new tracks. They are far from the best on the Wii and end up looking slightly washed out on my screen, however.
There are now 3(!) power-ups that affect all the racers on the track and the blue shell is still in the game to blow up the first place driver, much to my annoyance. Also snaking is out, making the game far too easy in my opinion. Winning in Mario Kart Wii is now mostly based on luck.

As for new features, motorbikes handle mostly the same as the karts and the tricks are pretty fun to pull off. The new tracks are decent too with plenty of shortcuts to find and master.

The soundtrack in the game isn't that bad but none of the tracks stand out. The voice acting is predictably annoying.

Graphics - 7
Gameplay - 8
Sound - 7
Lasting appeal - 8

Overall 7.5

If snaking were still in the game and operated just as it did in previous iterations of the game, what would you score it as?


 For me, that would boost the lasting appeal of the game. As it is now, I will probably stop playing the game after a few weeks because there is literally no challenge or skill requirement in multiplayer anymore, beyond getting lucky with power-ups.

I'd give it an 8-8.5 probably. 



dsoverpsp on 26 April 2008
Shameless said:
kn said:
Shameless said:
Here's my quick review of the game:

The graphics are pretty much identical to the gamecube especially on the old tracks, while looking slightly better on the new tracks. They are far from the best on the Wii and end up looking slightly washed out on my screen, however.
There are now 3(!) power-ups that affect all the racers on the track and the blue shell is still in the game to blow up the first place driver, much to my annoyance. Also snaking is out, making the game far too easy in my opinion. Winning in Mario Kart Wii is now mostly based on luck.

As for new features, motorbikes handle mostly the same as the karts and the tricks are pretty fun to pull off. The new tracks are decent too with plenty of shortcuts to find and master.

The soundtrack in the game isn't that bad but none of the tracks stand out. The voice acting is predictably annoying.

Graphics - 7
Gameplay - 8
Sound - 7
Lasting appeal - 8

Overall 7.5

If snaking were still in the game and operated just as it did in previous iterations of the game, what would you score it as?


For me, that would boost the lasting appeal of the game. As it is now, I will probably stop playing the game after a few weeks because there is literally no challenge or skill requirement in multiplayer anymore, beyond getting lucky with power-ups.

I'd give it an 8-8.5 probably.


 no challenge even online?



supermariogalaxy on 26 April 2008

^OOOOHHH *Chants* FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT...LOL.....I hate the low scores they are giving MKWii, based on the ads alone, this ganme gets a 10 lol..