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"Mario Kart"

If you hop on over to here:

http://gamesradar.msn.co.uk/ downloads/default.asp? subsectionid=196&articleid=65389&pagetype=2

You'll notice that Gamesradar have a video up of a full race on Mario Kart.

I watched it last night and I was dissapointed, though I still know its going to be great fun.

It doesn't look like much has changed from previous Mario Kart outings, apart from the two riders in one kart thing. In the video you'll see Luigi go up close sometimes and whack another player, things like this are going to make it better but still one major thing has gone.

That is speed. Where the hell has the speed gone? Ok, I know the characters now have to ride on self-made Carnival floats but doesn't mean they can't stick in *insert large number here*cc engines. It looks like it plays very slow which is a shame, maybe this is to aid the kart character switching thing or something, I don't know.

Another thing I noticed which was new to me was the way in which a 'Special' weapon is gained. In the video Mario and Luigi were in the kart and so the special was those fireball things which bounced around like crazy nits. So I don't think I'll be wrong in saying people like Donkey & Diddy Kong will have their own Special move, as will the other characters.

It'll be great none the less and I can't wait to play the thing. Oh god, I've just imagined them sticking Pokemon characters in Mario Kart :-S or creating a new game completely, Pokemon Kart. eeeeeek. No matter how much the Pokemon games rule, I wouldn't want that.

I hated the rainbow road on the SNES vesion. Maybe because I was young and feeble, but it was the only track I couldn't complete on the hardest setting.


EVIL.

I think I managed it once without crashing once.

Which I was proud of.

Random Hero wrote:
> Toads Turnpike (well, I think that's what it's called) was the
> greatest track. So much fun.

Doing it backwards though was like putting your nuts in a blender.

The new weapons system looks great, more tactics involved.

Only kart that I don't like the look of is Wario's, looks bloody stupid from what i've seen.

Still the game looks great.

Toads Turnpike (well, I think that's what it's called) was the greatest track. So much fun.

Tiltawhirl wrote:
> Rainbow Road, classic Mario Kart track that is.
>
> One of the worst though in my opinion. Wario Stadium is where the
> fun's at, only problem is if you've got people who are new to the game
> they throw a tantrum if you do the 2 shortcuts that cut out half the
> track.


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I got many evil looks a time whenever I even attempted it :P

Rainbow road was class. Specially with the shortcut there :D

It actually looks really cool. I like the way Luigi actually sticks the mushrooms into the exhaust, rather then you 'using' (Hahah, oh dear... :D) them.

I thought Rainbow Road was pap too, but very memorable. I like the lava one, 0wnz.

And the balloon game, where you turn into a bomb afterwards :D

Rainbow Road, classic Mario Kart track that is.

One of the worst though in my opinion. Wario Stadium is where the fun's at, only problem is if you've got people who are new to the game they throw a tantrum if you do the 2 shortcuts that cut out half the track.

Tiltawhirl wrote:
> The clips i've seen look really fast, anyway, who's to say it's not
> clips of 50cc mode?

Bah! :D

Anyone remember that freaky rainbow track? I look mainly at you Tilta :D