Customer Reviews
Amazing, Best One Yet!! - By: R. Collier, 19 Jul 2008 
I got this game a couple of days after it came out & i am glad i did. It is a great party game that is fun for everyone that plays on it. I have played on it with six different friends & family & they have all said it was great & i agree.
GAMEPLAY
The gameplay is fantastic, the items & way that you can play online against the rest of world is great & a good feature, also the way they have set up tournaments & ghost battles is fantastic & really does give another dimension to the game. As well as this, i like the way you can use both the wii wheel & nunchuck with the wiimote as controls & it uses the features of the wiimote excellently.
GRAPHICS
The graphics on this game are just normal wii graphics, nothing more nothing less but dont let this put you off, the fun & the way you play the game is great & really does take your mind off the graphics, which arent actually that bad anyway. Really, you cant compare the graphics to anything on the PS3 because there is not a game anything like this one on the PS3 or XBOX 360.
GAME FEATURES
This game includes a grand prix to complete on 50,100 & 150cc classes with 50cc being the easiest & the 150cc being the hardest, the grand prix is great & really is one of the factors that keeps you addicted & stuck to the game. Also, the time trials, battles & just normal races help improve your game & get you ready to compete online orin a grand prix. THe online play is fantastic as long as you have wireless connection of course. It is a good idea how you can pick whether you want to play friends, continentally or worldwide as if you are a rookie at this game it is a good idea to just do continentally first to get used to it.
SHELF LIFE (How long you can play on it for without getting bored)
The shelf life for this game is probably one of the best for games on the wii for the simple fact that no one race is the same & that there is so many different courses its hard to get bored. Also with all the features as well it is hard to not play this game regularly.
This game is great is you have 2 or more controllers to play multiplater of just on your own, it really doesnt matter it fun either way,
GAMEPLAY 9/10
GRAPHICS 7/10
GAME FEATURES 10/10
SHELF LIFE 9/10
Abosoluntly Brilliant!! - By: J. Boatswain, 17 Jul 2008 This game is obviously the best game.
The graphics are brilliant the set up of the game is easy to use, & the steering wheel makes it even more exciting. You can also choose from the a varies of characters (more then the ds version). Some of the tracks are the same as the ds versioon such as "yoshi falls" & "Delfino Square" but the new items & characters makes them even better. Also you can go online & play with your friends however you may get frustrated when other users cheat, which when they fall they recover back on the trackin about 1 second (if that makes any sense).
Overall the game is very very entertaining & would recommend it to anyone who has second thoughts on this game
Mario Kart on the Wii? I nearly wet myself when I heard... - By: Dan Morgan-kane, 14 Jul 2008 
Well, not quite; but I hope that gives you an idea about how excited I was that it was coming out. But as I've had time to mellow, & reflect on the latest edition of this ever-popular franchise, it almost seems like a completely different game to the wondrous, bright thrill-ridein my mind.
Mario Kart Wii is an interesting game. It grapples with a lot of 'new stuff' that wasn't a complication for the franchise last time out. With online racing, the Wii-mote & twelve on-track racers, things sure have moved on. There have been some good successes, & some not so good ones.
The visual presentation is very Nintendo. Bright colours, an upbeat & bouncy soundtrack & an undying loyalty to the retro gamers has set a good precedent for the new flagship racer for a console that dearly needs one.
But it can't quite hold itself as a great game. Sure, it's a good one, a very good one, possibly. Leaving (or joining) your kids to play online or off will almost doubtless be a fun, safe thing (as two can play online at the same time, but you can't communicate with other racers, which feels a bit patronising, & puts up resistance to a loyal, thriving Mario Kart community). But for those of us looking for more, the cracks will begin to show.
There are sixteen new tracks, which is pretty standard, but even with the thirty-two total, it'll soon feel like it's not quite enough. Especially since quite a few of the tracks are various incarnations of the same 'worlds'.
A magazine, I can't remember which, raised great pointsin that the focus has definitely moved away from the huddled-family environment (and done further damage to themselves by not encouraging online communications & communities), & that most skills or expertise go straight out the windowin this edition. These are great points because, quite simply, they have.
I have four GameCube controllers, four Wii-motes & four Nunchuks, & only once, have my three siblings & I all jumped onto the couch together for a good family bash. This is because, it's really not that good. I can't quite put my finger on it, but the new style of gaming feels a bit, well, pointless.
'Mario Kart: Wii' still retains that hectic, exciting feel, but the driving style, despite all the new gizmos & the so-called 'expert mode', have all been engineered to help your little sister finish first (by making it as stupidly-easy as humanly possible). Only some of the tougher tracks will provide an obstacle, &in the harder Mario Kart GP difficulties, a weapon-savvy approach.
The only tactics that really remain liein the weapons & your position on the track. Nintendo seem to be aware of this, & it can be fun. But it doesn't quite make up for the general lack of skillin this game that really let a lot of the more serious gamers down.
Overall, 'Mario Kart: Wii' is continuing to tow the latest Nintendo publicity campaign for easy gaming. It's a pick-up-and-play, disposable racer (even the design for the Wii-wheel isn't really trying to encourage you to keep gaming past half an hour or so, with the acceleration button awkwardly placed). With some depth, but almost no skill required, you won't be finding yourself spending much time on this after the first (action-packed) week or so. This is, overall, a little underwhelming, & I wonder if, these days, Nintendo are trying a bit too hard to get your grandmother into video games.
A Modern Classic - By: S. Patrick, 07 Jul 2008 Having played Mario Kart games for nearly 15 years from the early days of the never beaten SNES version, I had hoped for an improvement on more recent versions of the game, Mario Kart DS excepted.
Graphically & gameplay wise this is not much of a step up from the much maligned double dash on the cube. However the tracks are a little better developed with many secrets to dicover that rewards continuous play.The move to 12 racers is inspired & gives the races a frantic feel not seen since the original SNES version.
The control methods are varied enough to suit everyones tastes. The wheel is a nice idea, if a little gimmicky, that is a little unresponsive & particularly difficult to use on some of th more advanced tracks. I found that the cube controller was by far the winner.
What sets this game apart from the more recent mario kart games is the online play. The worldwide set up is easy & connects you quickly to players all over the world. Surprisingly the races proceed without any lag or any significant connection problems. This makes it hard to understand why nintendo made such a fist of the Super Smash Bros online play. The one player games are not particularly challenging, however there is always a good challenge to be found online.
This is an essential purchase, even for those who are not mario kart fanatics.
Mario Kart still rules - By: M. Lewis, 29 Jun 2008 
There's not a lot that can be said about this game that hasn't already been saidin the myriad of previous reviews.
It's a fabulous game, pure enjoyment throughout - there's nothing new really - it's just an update on mario kart, but why try & fix something that 'ain't broken?!
Online play is tremendous, adds even more longevity to the game.
If you're looking for a fun, easy to play game, look no further than mario kart.
