Mario Kart Wii (includes Wii Wheel)

This is a must buy for anyone with a Wii system! A highly entertaining game not just for children but for the whole family to join in and have fun and plenty of laughs, top game play and endless hours of unlocking new characters and race courses, money well spent.

Mario Kart Wii is fantastic fun using the great Wii Wheel controls in solo player and even more so in multiplayer with family or friends. I have unlocked my Mii as a player which I can use to race with and your Mii's are dotted around the scenery on certain tracks. The new tracks are the best tracks yet with big bouncy mushrooms to go arcross and a underwater tunnel which you can whizz around. They really have put alot of imagination into the new tracks and you also get to race some of the older classics too. For those of you that have played New Super Mario on the DS where you can eat a Mega Mushroom and become massive, well it's here in Mario Kart now and boy is it a laugh to have. Overall yes Mario Kart is the must have of must have games to have on your Wii.

What a game. Took a while to get used to the wheel but already think i'm lewis hamilton. online feature fantastic, smooth game play and easy to get to grips with. see you all online!!!

Start your engines its Mario Kart wii time!
This game is great, pretty much everything about it is perfect. Whether it is the gameplay, graphics, lifespan, controls or the like, it is just right. The wii wheel is superb, yeah ok its just a plastic shell but its more comfortable and it looks better, bikes are a superb addition and to be truly honest i prefer them in some cases,
especially the handling but then again, the karts are stronger when bumping into people.
i like how Nintendo have kept a balance on the karts + bikes, the bikes can wheelie ,which acts as a slight speed boost but when bikes drift they can only get blue sparks when they drift. (You will understand if you have played mario kart before but dont worry if you dont) Whereas karts can get orange/yellow sparks and when you release the drift after the sparks you get a nice little boost. I think Nintendo have done well thinking of that.
the gameplay is fun, even if a little fustrating at times, the fustrating side of it would be falling off some tracks especially *sneeze* rainbow road *sneeze* sorry, bad hayfever i have got...
This game will keep you entertained for hours, whether you will be trying to unlock the almost endless amount of characters or plodding on through the Grand Prix's which includes that dreaded mirror mode, when you unlock it, or even trying to get your online rating up which starts from 5000 which can either go up if you win or down if you lose, there are two seperate ratings for both 'VS race' or 'battle'. I love battle, it is so fun. There is something really cool when you are being shown the different players you are playing with/against but i am not going to spoil it for you ,it is something to do with where the players live...
Guess who my favorite character is... My mii, yes, after you unlock him/her of course, can play as him/her and the great thing about miis are that the weight class of your mii is depended on how heavy your mii actually is, how cool is that.

Well i hope you are now much wiser about Mario Kart Wii than you were at the start and i hope you enjoyed reading this.
cheers, Jonny

Mario kart Wii like it predecessors is a great family game as well as fun single player game.It is a classic Mario Kart game with some new things such as the use of motorcycles (as well as the karts), new items (thunderclouds, big mushroom etc.) and new boost techniques. In many tracks it feels like skateboarding and i assure you that it is extremely fun. The new improved arial movements and tricks thanks to the boost techniques have never been so fun!

This game boasts a variety of controlling options because the classic controller and gamecube controller can be used to control your fav characters. Up to four players with whatever controller option(classic, GC, or wii mote) can play at the same time. Moreover a Wii wheel is included in the package which can be used extremely naturally for softer races in the 50cc mode but I prefer using the other controllers to improve direction in other difficult races such as those duirng the 150cc mode.
There are 32 tracks to choose from, half of them brand new while the remaining half are older tracks from SNES, GBA, N64, Gamecube ann Nintendo DS. There are some new tracks such as Maple Treeway, Wario's mines and the new Rainbow road which are a joy to watch because of their splendid scenes and great graphics.

Keep in mind that this is a cartoonish game since it brings out characters from the Mushroom kingdom and some others from the Nintendo franchise. In terms of playability and lasting appeal it reminds me of Mario Kart DS. It deserves a 5 star rating even though it may get a bit frustrating and difficult in 150cc races because you can get bombarded with shells often. However I am working my way to get a 1star rank in all tracks in the Mirror class, so I believe that it is not impossible as stated by previous reviewers. The online and offline multiplayer rocks and thats why i highly recommend this game. With Wi-Fi you can play against anyone you want either from your own continent or worldwide. Moreover, the online mode plays fine especially late at night when the server is not that busy.

This is one of those few games that everyone will be playing for months to come because of its unlockables and addicitive online mode. A must have, and probably the best multiplayer (or family) game on the Wii to date!!