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Oh good. My mag was stolen so I couldn't check that up.

 

I'll write out the passage : "This is Nintendo all right. Only it isn't. Because the Nintendo we know and love would never sacrifice on portion of a game for another. Nintendo trim and tweak to perfection. Not so here. The pressure to deliver an online experience has led to Nintendo overlooing the local multiplayer mode - that has carries Mario Kart for all these years.

 

Four- player balloon battle? It stinks. Designed for twelve players, the remaining eight team-mates are AI drivers - completely undermining the skill-based play the mode has always rewarded. Same goes for Coin Grabbing, a new battle mode that needs little explanation.

 

Split-screen racing? Fine, but it struggles visually - never dropping frames, but noticeably chugging compared to solo karting. We'd ask why Nintendo didn't simply give us the option to turn AI karts off, but all the modes, maps and tracks have been so tailored to that magical number 12 that the game wouldn't play properly.

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Hmm, so you can't turn off the AI? Or have simply 4 players in a (battle) game? That does suck.. Fortunately I can still play Mario Kart 64 if I want to play Sky Scraper with 4 players.. It also means playing against my brother won't be as fun as it used to be.. If it's true, that would be a huge oversight indeed.

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Well all my worries about this game are well and truly buried! I can't wait to try out the Wii Wheel, hopefully it'll do something to the gameplay, it's not a huge loss if it doesn't! It's so close!

 

Brawl (Imported of course) and this within the month, thanks alot Nintendo! :yay:

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I just read that you can't play the GP in multiplayer anymore as well! If this is true, then that is absolutely terrible!

 

I'm sure i've seen official videos of more then one person on the same wii playing the GP mode!

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You've never been able to to Grand Prix in 4 player! And you couldn't do grand prix in multiplayer on the DS version. I don't know what peoples objection to it is!!!

 

I don't mind about 4 player, i'm talking about 2 players! You could play grand-Prix in 2 players from the Snes version upwards, why get rid of it now?

 

Over at the Gamesradar forum, there not happy, and either am i!!!!!!!

 

I'm hoping it's staying in-tact!

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I have to say I have still not preordered this. With the release so close to GTA IV I just know I won't get the time to play it. Plus this is really the same Mario Kart we have always been playing nothing majorly new to make it a must buy...ok theirs the online play but only have time for so many online games. The lack of effort on the same screen multiplayer sucks as well....

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I have to say I have still not preordered this. With the release so close to GTA IV I just know I won't get the time to play it.

Because you'll be too busy sleeping after half n hour?

 

Plus this is really the same Mario Kart we have always been playing nothing majorly new to make it a must buy
Says someone buying GTA IV...The irony's off the charts
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It wasn't in the DS version!

 

It'd be good but I aint that bothered.

 

But the Wii version DOES accumlate the wins and losses in a single session doesn't it?!?! It better, this would anger me way more than the Grand Prix thing!

 

The DS version is a handheld game, every single 'home' console Mario Kart has had it! Well...i'm bothered about it. I'm still really looking forward to it, but thats a bit of a downer!

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you know very well that gta4 will be better than mario kart.

 

I can't believe i'm even comparing them.

 

No, you shouldn't really compare them, there two different games!

 

Both are excellent in their own right!

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Guest Maase
you know very well that gta4 will be better than mario kart.

 

I can't believe i'm even comparing them.

 

That's not what he said :\

 

He said that the critic you gave Mario Kart (Being the same thing as the other games) is too GTA 4 too ;)

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Grand Theft Auto is one of the most over-rated game series out there (maybe second to Halo!); I loved the first 2 and was excited by the 3rd but extremely let down!

 

Mario Kart on the other hand never fails to be awesome!!

 

In my opinion of course (really hate having to put this epilogue after giving an opinion; it's the only way you don't get lynched on these boards nowadays)

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