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Wii News by Tom Bramwell
US magazine Nintendo Power has revealed new details about the upcoming Mario Kart game for Nintendo Wii, most notably that it will feature 16 new tracks and as-yet undisclosed new weapons.
Mario Kart Wii - announced at E3 this year - sees the famed racing series make the transition to Wii, gaining a motion-sensor steering system based on holding the Wiimote with its buttons facing upward, a bit like Excite Truck, motorbikes and online racing.
As previously revealed, online games will support up to 12 players. Nintendo Power's preview adds that they will be able to pound one another with traditional power-ups like Koopa shells and lightning bolts, and fire themselves ahead with mushrooms.
It also states that the stunts possible (e.g. a motorbike wheelie) will have some sort of practical pay-off, although there's no further detail, and that the 16 new courses will be joined by some spiced-up old ones.
Other gameplay details were scant, and there wasn't any word on the steering wheel attachment due to be bundled with the game when it launches next year.
Even so, there isn't all that long to go, with Nintendo recently suggesting that Europe can expect to swing its arms at it as early as Q2 2008.
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Comments: 1-36 of 36 in total
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Very much looking forward to this.
I'm not sure that "16 new tracks" and "as yet undisclosed new weapons" really count as "details" though - pretty much every new Mario Kart game ever has offered that... I'll be interested to see how the motorbikes shape up - presumably the speed will be improved versus making them more crash-prone...? I hope the steering wheel isn't too much of an abomination either... given that Mario Kart has always been about multi-player, it seems a bit of a odd move to bundle just the one peripheral with the game, so I presume you can still use the basic Wii mote, right? |
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monkie_king
17/12/07 @ 11:15
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I can't help thinking that Mario Kart is a franchise that has run its course (approximately 2 generations ago, at that). Still good if you haven't played the earlier ones, I guess.
Zomoniac: shoot weapon forward/back with D-Pad up/down, more likely. They'll put the jump/powerslide on a motion, though.
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Mentalist(air)
17/12/07 @ 11:22
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What does FTW mean?
Fuck the Wombles. It can be used in both senses, but judging by the poster's state of excitement, I believe he wants to make sweet, tender love to the furry little wimbledon common tidiers. |
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Der_tolle_Emil
17/12/07 @ 11:28
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I hope the steering wheel isn't too much of an abomination either... given that Mario Kart has always been about multi-player, it seems a bit of a odd move to bundle just the one peripheral with the game, so I presume you can still use the basic Wii mote, right?
It's just a shell for the Wiimote, not an entirely new device. So I guess it should be no problem to use the Wiimote without it as well. |
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Pac-man ate my wife
17/12/07 @ 12:07
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Hopefully this'll be a combination of Excite Truck and Mario Kart DS. In which case it'll be one of the greatest games ever!
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strange_powers
17/12/07 @ 12:51
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The controls on Excitetruck worked phenomenally well - I never had one single problem with the tilt steering and I played through the whole game.
I reckon: 2 = accelerate, 1= weapon, d-pad= powerslide and A for brake (who ever brakes on Mario Kart?) will work fine. It may be that the steering wheel will allow shoulder-pad ish activations of B. Or even C and Z if it plugs in like the nunchuck. |
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Pac-man ate my wife
17/12/07 @ 12:58
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Nothing new except for the 16 new courses.
And motorbikes, stunts, online and motion control. Lets just hope it doesn't have gimmicky broken tilt controls for steering! Oh... wait... it's a Wii game.... You've obviously never played Excite Truck.
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Wayne: "I can't wait to play online against people that disconnect when they're not winning."
Didn't Mario Kart DS have some kind of penalty system for people who disconnected? Am I remembering it wrong? It was something along the lines of if you disconnect in the middle of a race it's recorded as a loss.. And for the minority of posters *already* writing this off, err.. it's not even out yet.. |
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monkie_king
17/12/07 @ 15:24
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nicka: yeah, but if you're 1/2 a lap down and going to lose anyway, that's not really a penalty is it? they need to count quits and have it affect grid placement or something.
my mystical predictions on the control setup: Steering - tilt Brake/Accel - 1/2 Jump/powerslide - upward jerk D-pad - weapons Stunts will be on motions too. |
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FenderMaster
17/12/07 @ 18:07
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not really looking forward to this... motion controls just lack the subtlety needed for some genres
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"Didn't Mario Kart DS have some kind of penalty system for people who disconnected? Am I remembering it wrong? It was something along the lines of if you disconnect in the middle of a race it's recorded as a loss.. "
No, that was the problem. If you were losing you could just disconnect. No penalty. The last time I tried playing I was up against a guy with over 300 wins and zero loses. I thought he'd own me, but i was winning and I was getting really excited that I was gonna beat this seemingly undefeated player, and then he disconnects. Don't get me wrong, I'll get Mario Kart Wii. I've been a fan since the snes version. Just don't expect me to get excited over Nintendo's online features because I'm pretty certain they will be a shambles. |
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strange_powers
18/12/07 @ 10:27
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me: "who ever brakes on Mario Kart?"
Tim: The people who know that if you hit a banana, then if you brake immediately, you avoid spinning out. Pah. Kids today, eh? I'm 32. And I drive around bananas. |
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@groovemeister: "Remote aiming with weapons would have been ingenious, but yet again there is MORE FUCKING STUPID remote novelty bollocks, which on Zelda TP forced me to get the GC version (as great as emote aiming was). Please, please Nintendo - make it optional. Give us analogue stick control too. "
You're an idiot. Steering for a driving game is the most natural thing in the world. Stop trolling on wii game threads, yet again. |
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Fair enough if you couldn't get on with the steering controls in Excite Truck. (and god knows the wii controls appear to be subjective)
But if you haven't played excite truck - and you're still slagging this (unreleased) game for it's control method you're just demonstrating your own ignorance. Persnally -almost the first thought I had when playing ET was ' I hope they can do mario Kart like this". That's no guarantee they will get it right though. (Personlly - I would pay proper money for a port of the snes version with online play) |
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