Nintendo Wii Fanboy

1. They said the keywords: Online Multi-player Battler Mode. This bad boy is on my shopping list.

Posted at 9:56PM on Jul 12th 2007 by Javi0084

2. Interesting ploy, selling software AND the matching hardware all in one box. This is what - the second time wii has paired products? Not that I mind, since N factory hardware is usually top notch.

Thinking about it.... yeah, I do believe I like this idea to SOME extent, but to send a clear message about it: don't start getting all 'money' about this idea, it can VERY easily alienate consumers (making one new thing REQUIRE another new thing is very definitely a Micro$oftian philosophy which alienated me).

Game looks very good, though graphics are not massively better than MK64. Always pleased to see new courses. Online is a neat idea too (I hope lag does not come to be an issue).

I'll own it, fer sure.

Posted at 10:23PM on Jul 12th 2007 by mmmmna

3. If you go to 0:30 sec in the video is there 12 racers on the starting line. I remember Reggie saying something about adding more players but could not distinguish between more characters or number of players. What do you guys see?

Posted at 11:37PM on Jul 12th 2007 by fatherb

4. Hopefully there will be both more characters at once, as you pointed out, and more characters to select from.

Not sure if the editors read the comments on their own articles but that website even gives you the code to embed it on their website, so I don't see why you couldn't embed it. Just click the video link on the sidebar of that site and the code is under the video. Also, one of the two listed includes mostly all of what Reggie had to say about the game. (Including the horrible jokes.)

Posted at 11:56PM on Jul 12th 2007 by droflaneb

5. @3 Well spotted, hadn't stopped to notice that before. I did guess though that it would be 12 players(definitely 12 on the grid there)after the announcement as it would be the natural progression after 8 IMO(10, just two extra, 14 perhaps too many).

Posted at 12:02AM on Jul 13th 2007 by Lee

6. It seems like they're bringing back the "Classic" Courses feature

One of those tracks was clearly taken from that one from Mario Kart DS, where you ran around the interior of some crater in a jungle

Some old, some new, more simultaneous racers, and they seem to be going with the Mario Kart DS control scheme, which in turn takes the better aspects of the Mario Kart Double Dash and Mario Kart 64 schemes

seems like a winner to me

Posted at 12:07AM on Jul 13th 2007 by Mr Khan

7. man this guy is boring as hell... whatever happened to old E3

Also I love how they make a big deal of the wheel, even though a launch game for Wii came with pretty much the same thing. I don't know how this will "level the track" since most people who suck at kart suck b/c they dont know what "braking" is.

Posted at 8:16AM on Jul 13th 2007 by Jonathan Tran

8. Mario Kart DS with Mario Kart 64 and some new tracks thrown in, what could be better? I know what could be better, tell us that we don't have to wait until next year! I am very impatient and want everything yesterday. Damn Nintendo making me wait again!

Posted at 11:15AM on Jul 13th 2007 by Justin

9. If its online battle mode, this may be good to buy.

Posted at 3:22PM on Jul 14th 2007 by Mattmatt