"Another day, another Mario Kart."
What? That's not the quote? Well, it sure seems true as the creatively titled "Mario Kart 8" continues Nintendo's trend of copy-and-pasting the same game over and over again in the hopes that the Nintendrones will eat it up; and being the white-knighting,now-it-all,defend-at-all-cost fandom they are, they do. People wonder why the Wii U is doomed, eh? Well look no further than this horrendous crap storm. I mean, besides a few new tracks and characters (and the fact that it's in HD is apparently a huge thing, seeing as Nintendo has always been in the stone age and their fans have the intelligence of cavemen) it's the exact same game we got on the 3DS in 2011, no wait, the exact same game we got in 2008.
Mario Kart 8 is pretty much Mario Kart 7; but even worse. I mean, for a "next-gen" title that's meant to be the Wii U's system seller, it sure is pretty dated. The graphics are a joke, I mean, for all we know they could've copied-and-pasted them from Mario Kart 7 and Mario Kart Wii; and those were made before 2012! Even with laughable dated graphics, this game still has absurd loading times.The gameplay, again, feels copied-and-pasted. Except they made a few adjustments, for the worse. For example: drifting is a joke in this game, tons of items have been ruined (you can't even defend yourself anymore), the newly added items are a joke, balancing is a joke, making a good kart combo is trial-and-error, etc., etc.. Online is also a joke, as it crashes every race. Remember the useful communities in Mario Kart 7? Oh yeah, what if they were replaced with "tourneys" that only run for a certain time of day? MKTV and the YouTube uploader are just bad, why would you want to watch you races at 30 fps?The system really starts to show how weak it is in splitscreen mode where lag is persistent and the framerate is noticeably lower. Also, battle mode has been changed. And what I mean by changed was that Nintendo was too lazy to make new maps so they just rehashed the normal tracks.
All in all, Mario Kart 8 is just another rehash from the masters of crappy video games, Nintendo. I would strongly advise you to ignore this title and prevent everybody you know from buying it and tell them to buy a good multiplayer game like Call Of Duty: Black-Ops 2. The only people who will like this game are 4 year olds who are too dumb to know what a good game is and the idiotic Nintendrones.