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Mario Kart DS new screens |
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Written by Bit-Orane
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Tuesday, 25 October 2005 |
[url=http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/mario-kart-ds/mario-kart-ds-animal-crossing-wild-world-handson-132909.php]kotaku[/url] Kotaku.com gets on the Nintendo van and gives a glance of Mario Kart DS to the world. Is the latest Mario Kart hot or not read on and check out some cool new screens
Mario Kart DS plays exactly like you would hope, effortlessly. There?s no screwing around with the touch-screen or trying to learn new skill sets, instead Nintendo concentrated on make a solid handheld version of their super popular console racer and from what I saw they succeeded.  Pressed for time, I only played through a single race and it was a ton of fun. The game retains the ability to power-up through drifts so you can turbo out of the turn. You can also wreak wacky havoc with an odd assortment of power-ups and weapons. I played the demo guy in a little ad-hoc head-to-head (The game supports up to eight players in a local race, but only four via WiFi); unfortunately he play tested the game, so my ass was promptly handed to me. One of the ways he was so easily able to beat me was by using little short cuts in the race track that he had discovered, something he says most of the game?s 30 tracks have. Although it was a local race, demo guy says that WiFi play is almost as seamless. He said he played a game with someone in Europe and Japan with no stutter.  I also check out the much talked about logo creation tool. You basically use the touch screen to draw your own logos for use on your car. The tool looked pretty impressive, though I completely sucked using it, as you can probably see. (That?s supposed to be the Kotaku K.) It looks like Mario Kart is the perfect game to launch WiFi play with, though I was surprised to see that it didn?t really seem to mess with the formula much. I suppose that?s both a good and a bad thing. The last thing I want is a fast-paced racing game that requires me to blow into the mike, rub the screen and shout commands as I try to race. source - [url=http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/mario-kart-ds/mario-kart-ds-animal-crossing-wild-world-handson-132909.php]kotaku[/url] thanks to Brian D. Crecente for bringing it to our attention |
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