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Mario Kart Wii (2008)

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Ever since Nintendo created the franchise for the Super Nintendo back in 1992, nearly every succeeding Nintendo video game system -- with the exception of maybe the Virtual Boy and Game Boy Color, natch -- has had a version of the go-kart racing game. This spring, nearly a year and a half since the system's debut, Nintendo will release Mario Kart Wii, the first motion-sensing rendition of the racer. In anticipation of Game Developers Conference this week, the company invited us to Nintendo's Redwood City office to check out the game in action and see just what's in store for Wii owners that are itching to zoom around with Mario and crew.Every copy of Mario Kart Wii will come packaged with a steering wheel peripheral that houses your Wii remote in the center and gives you the ability to play Mario Kart Wii rotating the wheel left and right in the air. This steering wheel is nothing more than a plastic shell similar to the Wii Zapper released with Link's Crossbow Training -- the peripheral uses all of the electronics within the remote. The one button on the back is a physical switch that presses into the B trigger on the remote. The unit has been designed so that it's easy to swap your remote in and out, with a large hole in the back so that the remote can be popped out of the shell. While the remote's in the controller, a hole on the left side of the unit makes it so players can still utilize the Wii Remote's pointer functions for the menu system. But in the case of Mario Kart Wii, the designers made sure you can navigate the menus using the D-pad.

Even though the steering wheel comes packed in with the game, you're not forced to use it. Mario Kart Wii will have full support for playing using the Wii remote exclusively, or the Wii Remote with the Nunchuk, or the Classic Controller, or even a GameCube controller. The game will automatically recognize which controller you choose to use the moment it's plugged in, and every best time will be noted with a specific controller icon to let everyone know just how you managed to get that score.
The Wii Wheel will come packaged with every copy of Mario Kart Wii.

But even with all the control options at our fingertips, we played Mario Kart Wii exclusively with the steering wheel peripheral exclusively during our short hands-on time with the game. This peripheral did, admittedly, have a large learning curve due to the fact that you have to learn where the "dead zones" are. Since the Wii Remote isn't attached to anything but your hands, you'll need to feel around where the center point is, as well as learn just how far you can rotate left and right before your kart stops turning. The only "force feedback" comes from the Wii Remote's rumble, and admittedly the vibration isn't muffled at all when in the steering wheel controller. According to Nintendo, testers seem to favor the steering wheel peripheral over the other options. We'll have to take their word for it -- we had less than an hour to tinker around with Mario Kart Wii, not exactly enough time to get used to the new control scheme. But certainly enough to see that the controls certainly work, even if they're a little awkward right from the start.

Mario Kart Wii begins with the same established Mario Kart structure: Grand Prix mode still features the same three different classes of difficulty: 50CC, 100CC, and 150CC, but now there are 11 other racers on the track instead of seven. That's right, it's now a 12-kart competition. Additionally, the game adds a new class of vehicles: motorcycles. Each character has six different vehicles right from the start, three karts and three cycles that alter the character's different racing attributes. In Grand Prix, 50CC races are kart exclusive, 100CC races are motorcycle exclusive. 150CC races allow for the mix of karts and motorcycles.

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