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| From: Nintendo
Category: Video Games
Buy New: £55.19
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Avg. Customer Rating:  83 reviews
Sales Rank: 11
Platform: Nintendo Wii
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4
Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 7.5 x 3.1
MPN: WI-RVLRRMCE
Model: rvlrrmce
UPC: 045496901004
EAN: 0045496901004
ASIN: B000XJNTNS
Release Date: April 11, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: *** In Stock *** : Brand New Full UK version. Fast 1st Class Royal Mail Shipping.
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Product Description
Make sure you put your foot down and go go go, in the next instalment in theiconic Mario Kart series. Mario and all of his much loved pals are planning tomake a spectacular return in this definitive version of Mario Kart, providing themost action packed racing fun in the series. Mario Kart Wii will come bundled with a new and intuitive accessory ? the WiiWheel which makes it one of the most accessible Mario Kart games to date andwill allow even complete novices to compete on this title. For those more familiaron the Mario Kart series, Nintendo have covered all the bases with this title byoffering five different control options: Wii Wheel, Wii Remote turned on side, Wiiremote and nunchuck, classic controller and even the the Nintendo Gamecubecontroller, these variety of control options mean Mario Kart can be enjoyed byeveryone, regardless of there experience or level. Mario Kart Wii combines all the much-loved features from the series, and muchmore. Mario Kart Wii will serve up a whole new host of stunning new tracks,characters, weapons, and vehicles. If you are looking for world rankingdomination you can take on up to 11 players simultaneously world wide using theNintendo Wi-Fi Connection service which will offer you the chance to race otherplayers across the globe in a nail-biting contest of speed and skil! If you prefer tokeep the rivalry a little closer to home? Try the multiplayer mode, in which up to 4people will be able to challenge each other in the comfort of their own living room.
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Drivers, start your engines! Nintendo is bringing Mario and his friends with their finely tuned racing machines back and this time to the Nintendo Wii. With 3 different control styles and a Wii Wheel included in the box, Mario Kart Wii is bound to be the best in the series. The worldwide race is on with a whole new set of tricks, tracks, and ways to play! Place first in Grand Prix circuits or clear skill-based missions. Mario Kart Wii draws on courses and battle arenas from every game in the series - not to mention tons of new ones - the true king of the Mushroom Kingdom racing circuits will finally be crowned. 
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New Intense Tracks and Tricks
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Mario and his friends are back and ready to race once again in Mario Kart Wii! Experience new tracks, enhanced Wii graphics, extraordinary gameplay and much more! Place first in Grand Prix circuits or clear skill-based missions to open up increasingly difficult and thrilling circuits. Players can have multiplayer races on any open courses or battle in arenas. Also included with Mario Kart Wii is the Wii Wheel! Now you can feel like your Mario and steering to avoid obstacles and doing incredible stunts - in the safety of your home of course.
Game Features:- The Wii Wheel transforms the Wii Remote; controller into a steering wheel that feels natural in anyone's hands, while the Wii Remote and Nunchuk; controller offer a classic control style for the Mario Kart veteran. In either configuration, players can perform speed-boosting tricks with a shake of the Wii Remote.
- Players can race as their favourite Nintendo character, or even as themselves! Mario Kart Wii lets players race with their personalized Mii; characters. And racers will see other Mii characters they have created cheering from the sidelines on some race courses.
- Players can compete with up to three friends in their living room. Or challenge up to 11 opponents via Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection in the biggest Mario Kart race yet. All tracks and modes of play are available via Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, and players can visit the Mario Kart Channel to compete in tournaments, check rankings, see when their friends are playing and download ghost data.
- Cruise new tracks and arenas or tour classic courses from Super Mario Kart;, Mario Kart; 64, Mario Kart;: Super Circuit;, Mario Kart;: Double Dash!!; and Mario Kart; DS. Tired of riding on four wheels? Bust out one of the new motorbikes for special tricks and techniques.
Characters
Nintendo favourites Mario;, Luigi;, Peach;, Yoshi;, Donkey Kong;, Wario;, Bowser; and Toad;, plus a host of new faces-including your own! Get into the game and put your Mii; character behind the wheel. Special Powers/Weapons/Moves/Features
Whether racing around an obstacle-filled track or battling in an arena, drifting and tossing items are the keys to Mario Kart success. Players can shake the Wii Remote while launching off a ramp to pull off a trick that will temporarily boost their speed. When riding a bike, players can gain additional speed by flicking the Wii Remote up and popping a wheelie Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection:
Keeping in the tradition of Mario Kart, Nintendo has pushed multiplayer racing even further utilizing the Wii's built in Wi-Fi Connection. There are two options for races and battles over Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection: up to 12 people via Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection or up to 10 people via Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection with two people playing locally.
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 A Wheel Revolution May 12, 2008
The second you open the box you know that Mario Kart Wii is going to be one special game. The package comes complete with the new Wii Wheel accessory, a great innovation in gaming accessibility. The Wii Wheel allows anyone new to Mario Kart to be able to pick up and play the game with an element of ease. As for the game itself, it's traditional Mario Kart and the best way to play is as always multi-player. The game design is brilliant and you can have moments where you reach a peak of excitement approaching the finishing line way ahead of your friends only to be destroyed by the host of novelty weapons that your friends use against you. The online mode is excellent, 12 players can compete online whether they're your friends or a seasoned random from anywhere in the world it adds an extra element of competition to the game and allows the joys of the multi-player mode to be recreated all the time.
Having always been a fan of Mario Kart I was always going to look at this game through rose tinted glasses but it really doesn't disappoint. There are 32 tracks to choose from and 16 of those are from the Mario Kart back catalogue. There is the inclusion of motorcycles which provide the user with more vehicle choice, each vehicle having its own stats which can make or break your race. Even the time trials have taken a new approach allowing you to compare your scores online to your friends and to race against the ghosts of some of the best, a great way to improve your own racing ability.
I would highly recommend this game to be your next inclusion in your Wii games library. To unlock all characters and vehicles will take you time and the new online mode will keep you hooked long after you've said `just one more race.' Well done Nintendo.
 Best Online Game Ever! May 10, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This game is easily the most fun game on the Wii, this game together with Wii Fit is actually worth buying the console for.
I also have a PS3,NDS, had an Xbox and a PC and this game I can say is the best game i've ever played Online. It beats all the other 'good' online games like COD4, FIFA08,ETMAIN etc.
This game is simply just fun and races are so unpredictable you have to sometimes forget about trying to win and just enjoy the race. As a gamer I have to say this is the most fun and frustrating game online! frustrating because you can be in 1st place with a corner to go, get hit by a blue shell, then a red shell and then wacked by a bullet or someone with a star and end up 12th. That just adds to the entertainment.
Playing your friends online is great and it keeps a score of how you do against them. You can also just play random people online and there's a two player mode online from the same console that is split screen. Time trials are also fun to do with your friends and you can challenge them by sending your best times. Be warned though, this game is highly addictive and may take over your life!
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Much fun!!!! May 10, 2008
bought this for the hubby's birthday, but me and the kids have had soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much fun with this game! Well worth the money!
Cracking game - few niggles but overall its jubbly. May 10, 2008
Absolutely love it! :D
Controls are great and you get a choice of about 5 control setups which should please everyone. the wheel is a great device to get new players into the game, while the nunchuck + wiimote option allows for far greater control. personally i find the wheel an atrocious option but it doesn't matter as there's a control setup for all tastes!
Most of the tracks are fun and there's a good mix from all the other MK series. Ghost Valley 2 i haven't played since SNES days and tearing up the competition in online play is just classic.
Online play is just unbelievable. i cannot believe how utterly lagless it is! you might see the odd character suddenly jumping on the track a small amount but this is very rare and makes virtually no difference from what ive seen.
Admittedly nintendos online system is rubbish compared to xbox's but the game itself really is like playing over a network.
So overall its great, and believe me you will almost certainly love it. Now the few niggles.
Main issue i have is giving the player options. For instance, one weapon which does not have much use is the blue shell. you get it when you're behind and it only really serves to ruin the person in first places race (unless a few others are bunched around 1st place). As to helping the person who launched get back into contention it pretty much does nothing.
So an option to disable blue shells would be a decent point to have.
Another point is the number of laps in a race. Luigis circuit, for example, can quite literally be a coin flip as to who wins. It needs way more laps to allow the better players to eak out a lead. i would say at least 7 laps.
It might not work but we should have that option to at least try it.
Voice chat....omg...what an oversight. wow. I cant believe they didn't integrate it and have an easy to be able to mute people who are being idiots. Parental controls exist so parents could make sure their young uns cant use voice chat no matter what to protect them from all the swearing that will go on.
Admittedly setting up voice chat is in fact very easy to do if you know a bit about computers and have the wii right by your computer or a laptop. simply install a program like skype/teamspeak/ventrilo, buy a headset with a microphone and start a conversation with all your mates who are going to be playing the game.
I cannot stress how much more fun this makes the game when playing against friends. if you nail them with a lush green shell or banana shot or pull off some sweet moves to nab first place at the last second you almost need to be able to let them know who the king at mario kart is etc etc
it makes a huge difference.
Ultimately theres no concrete reasons to not buy this game. a few cracks but thats it.
Awesome stuff :D
Mostly excellent, terrible AI on harder levels May 8, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Mostly a brilliant game, good single player, excellent multiplayer, excellent time-trial system.
The one big flaw I find is the AI on the harder levels (150cc and mirror mode) is a nightmare. That doesn't mean it can't be beaten by any means, it's just that on the harder levels it becomes purely a game of chance, not one of skill, because instead of making the computer controlled characters drive better or faster, it just gives the computer characters ridiculous numbers of really powerful weapons like blue shells etc.
There are lots of vehicles and characters to unlock - you do this by winning grand prix cups, and also by getting harder star rankings (which means driving really well throughout as well as just coming 1st.)
It starts off very enjoyably working your way through the 50cc and 100cc levels, accumulating wins and star ratings.
But by the 150cc and mirror levels, it gets to be a nightmare. The AI turns races into a lottery - the races are grouped into 4 - and you might be lucky and win the 1st 3 races, then on the 4th you might race a perfect race that couldn't possibly be improved - but whether you win or come in 9th depends purely on how many blue shells and other power-ups the AI decides to give the computer controlled players, and there isn't anything you can do about it. And getting a bad finishing postition on the last race means possibly not winning the group of 4 races (depending on how the other racers did) and definately not getting a star ranking for that group. So you just have to accept you wasted all the effort you put in to the last 4 races and start again.
The single races, multiplayer, time trials, and the 1st half of the grand prix cups (50cc and 100cc class) are fine - but at 150cc class and above, if you want to unlock everything and collect all the star ratings so you can see all the vehicles and characters, you will have to spend a lot of frustrating time putting all your effort into races where the result is simply a game of chance - you have to put the effort in and race well to have a chance of winning - but no matter how well you race you can only win when the AI chooses to let you, you might as well be throwing a dice to decide who wins - this wouldn't be so bad if it was single races, but since it's a group of 4, you can only get a star rating when you get really lucky and the AI decides to let you have a chance of winning 4 times in a row (as well as you putting in your full effort and racing really well 4 times in a row) - this doesn't happen very often, so getting a star ranking on the last half of the grand prix cups isn't so much a matter of skill, more a matter of how many times you are prepared to put all your effort into extremely unsatisfying randomly decided groups of races in order to unlock things - it is very VERY annoying and not remotely fun.
You can always stick to just playing single races or the 50cc and 100cc classes (and multiplayer and time trials) - and these are all a huge amount of fun - but then you'll have to accept that you won't ever get to use all the vehicles and characters.
Also a couple of minor flaws in the design - during multiplayer play, you can't change vehicle or character or add/remove a 2nd player on your Wii without quitting out of the whole thing, the layout of simply displaying eg. how many expert ghost data you've unlocked in time-trials is appalling etc. - nothing major, but they could have done with a few lessons in basic clear layout of menus etc, the kind of thing you'd expect a company like Nintendo to be able to get right by now.
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