Educational Toys Guide
Mario Kart Wii With Wii Wheel Gamestop Review
In Children Toys of Advisor (February 24, 2009 9:02 pm)
Next time you are looking for a great addition to any family’s game night just add Mario Kart Wii with Wii Wheel-Nintendo Wii to your cart. Without a doubt you will have more hours of entertainment for your family than you ever expected. Amazingly the concept is one that’s very easy. The game comes with a steering wheel known as the Wii Wheel that your Wii remote fits into and you can use to “drive” for hours.
At the beginning of the game you get to create your own driver’s license. This is how you track yourself through the races you complete and place in. As with any license it has a picture and name. These you design using the avatars that can be modified to fit your personality. The game will pull avatars from your console to be obstacles as well. Make sure to trick out your Wii steering wheel with the grips and stickers if you are getting together with friends!
Play solo or link up with people around the world on the web. You can line yourself up against up to 12 people on the web. These people are around the world which is also a neat addition.
The options of playing vary from the multiple player to time trials against yourself, ghosts, which are other experts’ times, or the Gran Prix which is like Daytona with a twist.
The next step in your journey is to pick your character where as with life you can select to be evil or good (Baby Mario, Mario, Dry Bones, Baby Peach, Toad, Koopa Troopa, Mario, Luigi, Peach, Yoshi, Diddy Kong, Wario, Waluigi, Donkey Kong, King Boo, Rosalina, Bower, or your own tiny “me”). The characters are all intricate and interesting in their own way. Just as Disney did when it created it’s characters starting with Mickey Mouse, Nintendo has expanded it’s characters from the Mario series all the way back to the Mario 64 days and even earlier. These designs and names are known to us all.
Selected your own cart or bike with details from speed, weight, acceleration, handling, drift, off road mini turbo, wheels, rims, and tires differ per automobile. Manual or Automatic Drift are also options, like in Too Fast Too Furious Tokyo Drift with Nitrous boosters.
Once you’ve chosen your car and your character it is time to pick the race you wish to run. Selected your circuit racetracks from new and old tracks, some are from Gameboy, Super Nintendo, Game Cube, Nintendo DS, and of course new tracks designed specifically for the Wii. Each of these circuits shows a map of the track on the right hand of the screen. Don’t watch that too close though or the obstacles may wipe you out. These obstacles include but are not limited to 18 wheelers and stars not to mention there is always the risk of just running off the track. These circuits each have 3 levels of difficulty newbie, medium, and expert.
You can complete the circuits for trophies and even get grades on how well you whomp the completion. This grade allows you to unlock more characters, automobiles, and options. In other words, winning isn’t the only purpose in this video game. There are so many more facets that just what place you finish the race.
You are not resigned to be a solo player on this either. You can also play as a team. As with any real racing group, just look at Karters of America Racing Triad and how everyone while in competition works together. Join a team and compete together. Work together to accomplish your goals. Or you can battle for balloons or coins, a form of go karting reminiscent to the old game of combat.
Over all I think the only group who really dislikes the Wii’s would be Washington Internship Institute, for making its name the same as the Institute’s acronym. Or maybe by this time they’ve resigned themselves to it and appreciate the recognition they get each time someone looks for the Mario Kart Wii with Wii Wheel-Nintendo Wii.
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