Roll Back: Mario Kart Wii review

Released back in 2008 for the Wii, Mario Kart Wii is something to look back on as Mario Kart 8 will be released for the Wii U in Late May 2014.

Why would people want to look back on Mario Kart Wii to call it a game worth playing? The car the player would be racing in depended on the character selected. Some characters are made a secret at first and must be unlocked by playing through the game such as winning trophies in Grand Prix. Mario Kart is a series that follows the same kind of vehicular combat formula in which power-ups and throw-able objects such as banana peels, green-red turtle shells, ability to shock and shrink enemies, transform vehicle into a magnum bill that speeds through the race and knocks out opponents in it's way, bomb, and even a star that makes racers invulnerable to being hit and can even hit other racers by slamming into them. The ones mentioned are not all of the power-ups in this game. The mushrooms have typically been used in Mario games to make Mario larger and have more health but in Mario Kart it has been used to give the racer a boost.

Power-ups for this game look like the power-ups in Super Mario Brothers games. I like how memorable characters from the Mario franchise such as Mario, Luigi, Princess, Yoshi, Toad, Wario and more. The race tracks include both new and tracks from previous games. As for the graphics, Wii games have had to compromise on graphics but sometime you may think that this is a GameCube game. Another complaint gamers would have was the difficulty level on it's highest set had opponents which could shoot you literally from first to last place, which is typically 12th place.

As for vehicles, you can choose between a selection of three karts and/or three bikes and the vehicle selection you get is based on the character you select. Each character will have a different livery but there is a class of characters that conform to a certain type of vehicle as turtle and baby characters will have the stroller for one of their vehicles. Some characters will have the same vehicles as others.

Mario Kart Wii is a great game to look back on and you will be wondering how Mario Kart 8 will be.