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Wired Review: Mario Kart Wii Skids Way Off The Road

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Oh, Mario Kart. What have they done to you?

The Mario Kart series, in which Nintendo's famous mascot characters jump into go-karts and race each other on wacky tracks, has been one of Wired's favorite series ever since the 16-bit days. Since Nintendo has only ever released one Mario Kart game for each of its consoles, the launch of each new version is always a big event, and hasn't ever been disappointing.

Until now.
6 / 10
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thor - 606 days 11 hours ago
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If they did gimp the battle mode, then I agree wholeheartedly with this review. Though I think mario kart pales in comparison to crash team racing (I never played double dash, though, and apparently the power sliding actually required skill, like in CTR?).
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sidar - 606 days 11 hours ago
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its true ...never was into mario karts battle mode...and now its worse ..... HOWEVER....playing battle mode with my brothers = 100% laughter

But yeah i love mario kart for the racing.
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Denzelio - 606 days 7 hours ago
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Totally they replaced the Last man standing style of play with a timed mode.... what a waste, as soon as you loose your 3 balloons you get 3 more, didn't they have any gamers test the game before release. The battle mode was why I loved the snes version so much, Also to bad they left out so many quality snes maps.
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sidar - 606 days 6 hours ago
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well when you loose 3 bubbles you loose one point, so i didnt mind that.

Yes the classic maps are a shame, but new tracks arent bad and the online mode is fun.
So if we take the bad and good its still balanced.
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Muddyalcapones - 606 days 10 hours ago
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it's so sad that Nintendo dropped the ball on this one... I was on the fence about getting this game, but after reading the most recent reviews it looks like that's not gonna happen.
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Denzelio - 606 days 7 hours ago
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The level design and graphics are great!.

However battle mode, the menu system, and AI tactics (very frequent blue+red shells when no.1) are rather poor.
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Muddyalcapones - 604 days 9 hours ago
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well, i have friends who are getting it so ill just play it there, but a good battle mode being gone saddens me, I loved that back on the SNES
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Maddens Raiders - 606 days 9 hours ago
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4 - Didn't sound like such a bad review -
surprised it didn't get a 10/10.

>_>
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