Mario Kart 8 - Nintendo Wii U

Great game for childrens, great video grafics. Recommended

This game is a must buy, If you are a Mario Kart Fan. The game have a lot of replay value from the single, multiple to online options. The game is a sure winner for all ages, a great family gaming experience.

As a lifelong Mario Kart player, Mario Kart 8 is a fresh and exciting take on the series. The tracks available in the game are wonderfully created with the care of detail only Nintendo can give to its games. Some tracks can make your jaw drop for how great it looks for Nintendo's first Mario Kart game in glorious HD. The controls feel fantastic to drive the characters around as well as the weapon balancing is the best I've witnessed in a Mario Kart game. The added "gravity tires" give the series a new perspective from different angles that makes the racing much more exciting to play. The game offers enough varieties of cars/bikes/ATVs for everyone to choose along with the endless selection of tires and gliders to give the user the vehicle of their dreams. My experience with 12 player online play has been relatively lag free! My only complaint of the game is that battle mode available in these version is not as good as previous entries. Instead of dedicated arenas, players (a maximum of 12) will use the available tracks to use as the "arenas" for the players to battle. It is not as exciting as the tracks tend to be bigger than the regular arenas which can cause a lot of players to wander around the track looking for others to battle. I've had the game since launch and it is definitely worth the full price of the game as it is a beautiful masterpiece full of a wonderful variety of tracks with a ton of vehicles to use and customize. The wealth of multi player options for online and offline play is fantastic. One or two player online play is fast and frantic, with hardly any lag experienced during my play time. Mario Kart TV brings in a new experience to the series and can be a joy to watch the character's faces and emotions when the highlights are playing. While the battle mode was a series staple, it's lack of dedicated arenas shouldn't put a damper on the amount of content available, which in itself is a staggering sum and the available local play for up to four players between friends and family will make the game that much more exciting and worthwhile! I will be playing this game for years and years to come!

This game lives up to the reputation it has set for itself in previous titles. Every track looks gorgeous in HD, and there is a wide variety in the level design and detail. They have a wide selection of characters to play, as well as a big assortment of vehicle types, wheels, and sails to pick from. This allows you to tailor pretty much any character/kart combo to your liking for control. This is also one of those games that is easy for new players to pick up and play, but has plenty going for it for hardcore players to enjoy. With 4 player mode available, it makes for a great party game (although you may hate your friends when they take you out of the lead with a blue shell). Certainly a must have title for anyone that is a fan of the series or a fan of arcade racers.

My wife bought me a Wii U earlier this year and I only have a few games for it but this was one of the first ones I needed. Mario Kart has always been my favorite racing game and as with any Mario Kart it's one that I don't get bored of and will keep coming back for more. Most racing games are simply about beating your friends but there is so much more to this game than your typical racing game due to all of the unique features that the MK series brings to the table. It's challenging, there have already been several DLC's including a free DLC I just downloaded, and the amount of characters and customization is really high. This game and Super Smash Bros. are two of the most fun games I have played in a long time as far as local multiplayer goes. I just wish there was more time to play with friends and family.

Mario Kart 8 is a must have game for the Wii U. Hours of playful but intense racing action. You will be crying when you get passed last second and yet be yelling at the screen for another match. The antigravity racing mechanic adds new racing strategies is a welcome addition. The tablet controller allows Off TV Play or can function as a course map. Multiplayer is great for families while online play also provides solo gamers with intense multiplayer racing action. There are so many characters from the Mario universe with tons of vehicle customization options. Mario Kart TV allows players to save their favorite racing clips and share them with friends on Miiverse and Youtube. The graphics look awesome and gameplay music is great match. Mario Kart 8 is an excellent purchase!

If you're a fan of Mario Kart, you will love this. It's all the same fun you know and love, with the addition of HD graphics and new gameplay elements like being able to drive up walls and float with a parachute through sections of the courses. Playing with the Wii Wheel is my preferred method, and with this setup, the Wii U Gamepad serves as a second screen showing the course layout and position of racers which is great because it leaves more open space on the TV. The bottom line - if you like Mario Kart, you should buy this. You and your friends will thoroughly enjoy it.

This 22-year-old franchise just keeps getting better. For a console that desperately needs a shot in the arm, "Mario Kart 8" couldn't have arrived at a better time for the Wii U. Graphically, it's easily the best looking "Mario Kart" title yet. Partly because of the console's HD graphics horsepower, but also because the designers went above and beyond creating beautiful and challenging tracks for Mario, Luigi, Peach, Bowser and all the other racers in the Mushroom Kingdom. The game audio is also fantastic, featuring totally new tunes and remixed classics for the game's 32 tracks (16 new, 16 from previous releases). The gameplay hasn't changed that much, but it's the new mechanics that make "Mario Kart 8" stand out. The anti-gravity feature is like "Mario Kart 7's" underwater feature ... it engages and disengages automatically, and the driving technique changes appropriately in both cases. Item availability is still biased based on racer position, but the designers answered gamers who wanted to be able to counter the game's nastiest weapon, the Spiny/Blue shell, with the addition of the Super Horn and making it available to racers near the front of the pack. Online play continues with the same basics seen since "Mario Kart DS". Players can play against others from around the world in simple matches, or change up the rules (adding/removing items, for instance), when playing with friends. A fun new online feature is MKTV, Mario Kart TV, where users can choose pre-designed highlight reels from their races and post them directly to YouTube, allowing you to share your favorite moments. The only thing missing from the game, which has been a staple almost from the beginning, are dedicated arenas for the game's multiplayer Battle mode. In "Mario Kart 8", Battles take place on the standard courses, although users have more freedom than when racing in normal modes. So maybe it'll grow on us, but it would have been nice to make Battle arenas at least optional ... but that's what DLC is for, I'm guessing. As to that last point, I would hope Nintendo takes advantage of that and adds in new courses. If they're going to the effort to patch the game to use the upcoming "Amiibo" collectible figures, adding new or fan-requested tracks would keep the fun going well after everything's unlocked.