Gamespot was a little to hard on this game in my opinion, but not entirely wrong. Game still dissapoints on the Wii
However, other parts gamespot pointed out are right on the ball, "glitched" sounds, specifically the coin sounds it makes when the game counts the ranking points at the end of a race, sounds super cheap, this problem doesn't exist in project64's emulator, and neither do all the other cheaped up sounds, doesn't sound as clean as the original or pj64's emulator. Another thing, shooting backwards does feel slightly awqward, but manegeable, theres something wrong with the analog using the gamecube controller. I don't usually brag, but im an old pro in this game, I beat nintendo's best record for bowsers castle, mastered the whole game along with its glitch shortcuts, so id assume I know how to steer, I mastered the drifting, drift boosts, and so on, and even though I never spin out when i play the pj64 version, I spin out more often that not on the wii version, I never spun out that much on 150cc as a noob, it was ridiculous, as was the computers agression levels, which was a nice change, but the analog is why i didnt give this a higher rating, I dont care for sounds as much as playing quality, and thats exactly whats been dumbed down in this.