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  1. Posted

    I too use standard Karts all the time and am in the 8500pts range... I love it when you beat some prick on a bike who thinks he's gonna wheelie round the whole course with ease..!! It is harder in karts but sooo satisfying when you win....Its strange that they made the bikes so 'over-powered'...

  2. Posted

    Yeah he does boost 'over the mountain' its a glitch... he turns around near the wooden bridge and turbos onto the red mushroom into the mountain side, he then somehow bounces round the mountain and lands behind the finishline - repeat x3! I tried to copy but couldn't bounce on the mountain.. not sure how its done....

  4. Posted

    To be fair no one on here only bought a wii for the motion controls... I bought it cos it was the next nintendo console and i wanted the new games... the motion controls are a nice addition but most on here would have bought it regardless.. its only really casual gamers who have adopted the wii due to the novelty of motion controls/the wii remote. I will prob play mario kart with the remore/nunchuck combo cos thats how i like it. I will try the wheel but my guess is it will feel crap and I'll go back to the classic controls i kow and love... each to their own.

  6. Posted

    You've always been able to do 2-player Grand Prix.. that was always the most fun mode for me - I hate the 'one off race' with no accumulated points system... 4 Player Grand Prix would have rocked... oh well....

  7. Posted

    So I am thinking about pre-ordering Mario Kart soon and as play.com is no longer accepting pre - orders I am turning to GAME online. I am just wondering what people's experiences are of ordering with GAME, when they got their order (eg on day of release?) plus also whether they had any general problems.

     

    At GAME a copy of Mario Kart is £34.99, (while still looking for some voucher codes online to get a further discount lol) Does anyone know where they are selling it cheaper? (Play.com seems to have stopped taking pre-orders whereas Amazon [£32.99] charges for delivery if I want it on near day of release).

     

    I also found a small deal here which is Mario Kart plus an offcial controller for only £39.99 which seems like a very good deal for those who need another controller

     

    http://www.Shopto.net £29.99 and Usually cheapest for all games...

  8. Posted

    Does anyone know that if say 3 ppl were playing on Mario Kart on my wii woulds we all be able to go online and race with others? Or is online and local multiplayer completly seperate?

     

    As far as I know 2 people can play online per wii

  9. Posted

    Has no one really understood the point of the bikes yet...? They can claim boosts on straights by poppin a wheelie apparently... so for all those players who can't pull off corner turbo's bikes add a different way to play that should help even the field... it is a new dynamic... plus you can pull stunts for what I guess are speed boosts too. Bikers will speed down straights and karters will speed round corners... each to their own style.

  10. Posted

    I don't get it.. voice comms req a headset so if mummy and daddy don't want little johnny talkin online surely they just don't buy the headset! All of us whole feel that we're mature enough to speak to people can buy the headset. simple. I guess I missed the part where nintendo were appointed my official guardians...

  11. Posted

    The main problems with DD were that there were no real shortcuts on many of the tracks (nothing like the beach jump or Star tunnel from MK64) and you couldn't really head 'off-track' much at all.

     

    The jump was missing which made it feel a bit crap and if you managed to fuck your opponents up on a big jump, for instance, they got put back on instead of havin to go round again etc, this made it all a bit too 'nice'.

     

    I think DD is just too 'kiddie' really.

     

    MK DS is far superior.

  12. Posted

    Little bit underwhelming to be honest. Would have liked a new graphical style rather than just DD all over again...

     

    He said multiple control schemes so would think classic nunchuck+remote combo may get used for snaking racers. Just pray that the game has some depth to it and some decent short-cuts etc unlike DD.

     

    More characters would be good and I think jumping is back - Yoshi jumps on the Yoshi DS track bit...

     

    Noticed some sort of F-Zero style spin from Wario too - not sure about that...

     

    DS version was much better than DD tho so here's hoping....!!

     

    Edit: Looking at the above screens just posted it actually looks pretty nice... and new tracks too... hopefully there will be loads of tracks so a few crap retro ones won't matter as much... I do hate that DS Yoshi Track - so boring.

  14. Posted

    8 Player Online (None of this 4 player only rubbish)

     

    More (and better/harder) shortcuts than DD - basically a return to N64 style game where you had more freedom around the track and a greater ability to mess up your opponents.

     

    Less emphasis on spectacular weapons, which is where DD fell down in my book.

     

    Custom cups (online) + ability to race more laps etc

  16. Posted

    The biggest disappointment with this is that it's not on-line. Nintendo will no doubt make no9 the online one so we all rush out and buy it again. Would be brilliant with online cos you could co-op the main game and always find people to play against. The biggest let-down for Mario Party is playin it on your own.

  18. Posted

    Well i can officaly say this game is worth every penny.. we have played this non stop since thursday... well not quite non stop.. but you get the idea.

    Oh and if anyones looking for this a bit cheaper i noticed Tesco's are selling it for £29.99 in store!!

     

    It's £27.77 in Asda stores!! Cheaper than online prices.:grin:

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    Gian Luzio, who told GamesIndustry.biz that PS3 is "the most pre-ordered console yet" for Play. The retailer is offering a GBP 524.99 bundle which includes first-party titles MotorStorm, Resistance: Fall of Man and Genji.

     

    Play also ran pre-order schemes for the Wii and Xbox 360, but some customers were left disappointed when they failed to receive their consoles on day one.

     

    "We underestimated the demand and we were very disappointed that we could not fulfil all pre-orders due to stock shortages," admitted Luzio.

     

    However, Play has pledged to deliver all pre-ordered PS3 units on launch day, with Luzio stating, "We have taken the necessary steps to ensure that customers will only be able to pre-order the system up until Play's allocation has been reached.

     

    "We will always want more consoles to satisfy customer demand, however, we are satisfied that Sony are doing all they can to fulfil demand," he added.

     

    Luzio went on to say that the inclusion of a Blu-ray player in the PlayStation 3 will have a "massive impact" on the retailer's business.

     

    "Figures from the US show that Blu-ray movie sales are outselling HD-DVD by a factor of 2:1 since the launch of PS3 and we have similar sales expectations.

     

    "In addition to the games and movie growth we expect to see a large increase in the sales of 1080p TVs to make full use of the PS3's superior resolution," he concluded.

     

    It's not just Play which is seeing healthy pre-orders for PS3, according to Sony. A spokesperson told GI.biz, "With an unprecedented day one shipment of 1 million machines into Europe and a software catalogue of over 30 titles available at launch, retailer feedback has been overwhelmingly positive.

     

    "Woolworths, Amazon and Play, to name a few, are reporting record breaking pre-orders and an overwhelming demand for PS3."

     

    The PlayStation 3 will launch in Europe on March 23, priced at GBP 425 / EUR 599 for the 60GB model.

     

    www.gamesindustry.biz

     

    Funny as it took over a day for Amazon to sell out of PS3's.... compared to Wii's 7mins!!

  22. Posted

    The wii-mote will occasionally lock-up when moving between channels as it seems the console re-boots as it loads. I think it's because it checks connect-24 when you go into certain things and sometimes there's a delay. The remote seems to act as if the console is off and re-connects as soon as channel loads up.

     

    Symptoms seem to be:

    Black screen for ages

    Wii-Mote not working (blue lights just blinking when button pressed

     

    I do notice that the Wii is pretty prone to 'crashing' in between channels. Might be down to wireless router connectivity tho...

  25. Posted

    I wouldn't say VC sales are good:

     

    * Nearly 1.4 million Wii hardware systems have connected to the Internet worldwide (as of 1/24/07)

     

    * Approximately 1.5 million Virtual Console games have been downloaded and sold to customers worldwide (as of 1/24/07)

     

    This means only 1 game downloaded per user roughly.

     

    Thats rubbish.

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