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What a horrible disappointment.
The soundtrack is nothing above poor, and the graphics are vibrant but mostly lack detail. The courses are, on the whole, poorly designed and incredibly short-lapped. There's a distinct lack of options, and battle mode is brought down by the awful arena design and unforgivable lack of bots. The gameplay is generally good, but too slow, especially now F-Zero GX is released.
This seems to mark a worrying trend for the series; this is worse than Mario Kart 64, and that wasn't as good as the original. Even Crash Team Racing, a PSOne game and a blatent rip-off, has better design in some respects. I see no explanation other than the fact that this was rushed out to give sales a boost at Christmas. Oh Nintendo? What have you done?
A shame. But these are first impressions, and I have only played about an hour and a half. Perhaps I'll grow to love it. At present however, it IS good, but only around 6-7/10.
The soundtrack is nothing above poor, and the graphics are vibrant but mostly lack detail. The courses are, on the whole, poorly designed and incredibly short-lapped. There's a distinct lack of options, and battle mode is brought down by the awful arena design and unforgivable lack of bots. The gameplay is generally good, but too slow, especially now F-Zero GX is released.
This seems to mark a worrying trend for the series; this is worse than Mario Kart 64, and that wasn't as good as the original. Even Crash Team Racing, a PSOne game and a blatent rip-off, has better design in some respects. I see no explanation other than the fact that this was rushed out to give sales a boost at Christmas. Oh Nintendo? What have you done?
A shame. But these are first impressions, and I have only played about an hour and a half. Perhaps I'll grow to love it. At present however, it IS good, but only around 6-7/10.
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do i have to do the all star cup on all cc to get it?
i've just unlocked mirror mode but i can't see the bloody thing?! i've got gold on all of the courses...weird..
50cc was always easy.. single player has always been short but multiplayer is where its at
I call it the camp-mobile.
Just completed it. At the award ceremony of the final cup, I realised what the Gold Kart is. I'm surprised I didn't realise earlier. It's a bit stupid that they didn't include Grampa Toad and some other character model from the game, maybe one of the Delphino natives, to accompany the kart.
Just a waste of good models.
Just a waste of good models.
It is a great test of stamina, agi...
Yeah, they just wanted to extend the game.
Yeah, they just wanted to extend the game.
Valentino Rossi wrote:
> Think it's just a lazy way of extending the single player game
> really, 50cc is so so easy :)
Yup, nice try Nintendo.
Still a great game though.
> Think it's just a lazy way of extending the single player game
> really, 50cc is so so easy :)
Yup, nice try Nintendo.
Still a great game though.
ThisIsAFunnyName wrote:
> Valentino Rossi wrote:
>
> What sort of total time do you get on the Cup Tour on 50cc, must be
> about 40+ minutes ? - lot of time if you mess up on the last race or
> two !
>
> It took me 43 mins on 50cc, 40 mins on 100cc and 37 mins on 150cc.
> Cup tour was a pointless invention.
Think it's just a lazy way of extending the single player game really, 50cc is so so easy :)
> Valentino Rossi wrote:
>
> What sort of total time do you get on the Cup Tour on 50cc, must be
> about 40+ minutes ? - lot of time if you mess up on the last race or
> two !
>
> It took me 43 mins on 50cc, 40 mins on 100cc and 37 mins on 150cc.
> Cup tour was a pointless invention.
Think it's just a lazy way of extending the single player game really, 50cc is so so easy :)
It's really tiring, I know, but at least it's not too hard.
It's class, don't you lie
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