Difficulty:

Easy

Time Spent:

40 to 100 Hours

The Bottom Line:

"Great multiplayer"

Any fan of the Mario Kart franchise should not be disapointed with this game. First of all the competition is expanded to 12 players in one race which may make racing more chaotic, but also more fun.

I have had this game since April or May I do not exactly remember, and to this day I am still playing it every now and then. I'll go through a few topics here to break it down.

Graphics: 8.5\10
Of course you can't expect any Nintendo game to have grade A graphics, but with this game it's not much different than any other Wii game. It is quite a bit more crisp and fresh looking. The bright colors make this game very clear looking and you should have no trouble telling the difference from right to left of the race track.

Controls: 9.5\10
The only reason I like the controls is because you can CHOOSE from about 3 or 4 different ways to play the game, so I like that. Here are the ones I can think of.

Wii Wheel: 6\10 -I started out the game playing the Wii wheel. It was a very fun way of playing the game at first. You get the hang of it and you can control yourself rather decently. The steering started screwing me up and it got hard to play how I want to with the wheel so I stopped using it.

Wii remote: ?\10- honestly don't know why anyone would race like this without puting it in the wheel but it is an option. Tried it once for fun, but it was pointless.

Gamecube controler: 9.5\10- My way of playing the game since I gave up the Wii wheel. I honestly think this is the easiest way to play the game, since it's easy to do what you want with it. I would recomend using the GC controler if you have one, that is if you don't like the wheel.

i know there is also the Wii controler and the Wiimote and Nunchuk, but Iv'e never raced using those, but I'm sure it wouldn't alter your expirience too much.

But anyways back to the game...

The Grand Prix modes are pretty much the same, but the cool thing is that you can play older places dating all the way back to the SNES in the Retro tracks. There are 4 of those along with 4 cups making a total of 32 unique (for the most part) tracks.
And of course you got your 50, 100, 150cc as well as Mirror.

Even after I finsihed all of those I still went back to the others to improve my grade (yeah you get graded on your performance)

And that leads me to the best addition to this game.
Nintendo Wi-Fi racing\battling.

Without Wi-Fi you will run out of stuff to do on this game, because playing online against other people is the best thing this game can do. You can either battle (in teams unfortunately) or just race.
And seriously it would take forever for me to explain everything about this game, but it's definately worth getting.

There are a few things I don't like about the game though. This includes how Battle Mode is team ONLY so that kinda takes the free for all battling fun out of Mario Kart, but it's still OK.
And then there's the unbalanced items... yes the biggest complaint from people out of anything in this game.

I could go on and on about how unfair this game can be, but let me just say that Blue Shells in the game are a living Hell to anyone who is good enough to stay in first. Bullet bills are also overpowered and very annoying to dodge. Bloopers are a pointless item but annoying. And a new item (the Lightning bolts) annoy me almost as much as blue shells. They aren't too hard to pass off against computers, but to get this things in online matches is just horrible... it's screwed me up so much.

Overall though this game is great, and with online features, this makes it one of the best games out there for the Wii.