Friday, 11 July 2008

Wii Racing Wheel - Mario Kart And A New Alternative Steering Wheel

Mario Kart is a racing game using characters from the Super Mario Bros series and is a fantastic game that Nintendo brought out for the Wii. Mario Kart is back and better than ever--this time with a steering wheel. It is a racing game using characters from the Super Mario Bros series and has always been an incredibly accessible driving game that is stupidly easy to play.

The tracks are fully 3D and so are the karts themselves, with all your favourite characters returning to join in the fun. The tracks can be very basic, low poly, and soft, but everything still has a very appealing look to it, and we can see people both loving and hating the direction Nintendo took with the game.


Multiplayer is Mario Kart's lifeblood, and as you'd expect, the Nintendo Wii version offers a very solid set of options: two- to four-player split-screen, online racing with up to two players per machine, team racing, battle modes, and the excellent Mario Kart Channel for keeping track of your friends, ghost data, online rankings and Nintendo-created competitions. The play is expanded with added online capabilities, but still suffers from the obtuse Wii friend-code system. Multiplayer Mario Kart is, in a nutshell, an absolute blast.

Mario Kart Wii supports four different control options: Wii Remote with or without the Wii Wheel, Wii Remote and Nunchuk controller combo, Classic Controller and even the Nintendo GameCube controller. The racing style is awesome and fun, and the fact that you can use multiple controller types is great, and the racing is exciting with new players (Mii), carts, Bikes, and tracks. Along with other wii accessories, there is also a new, alternative wii racing wheel on the market for those people who cannot get away with the standard Mario Kart wheel. It is weighted,comes in two parts and is multi-directional. It is manufactured by Pair & Go and is available from Gold Fusion Electronics, online store.

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