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Mario Kart Wii Online Details
New features, new channel, new game.
"Super Smash Bros. Brawl may be stealing all the thunder right now, but Mario Kart Wii is just a few months away, and Nintendo is starting to loosen their notoriously iron-gripped information blackout. Just this week, extensive new info on Mario Kart Wii's online features have popped up on Nintendo's UK website (via Joystiq), detailing the game's modes and the separate Mario Kart Channel.
For starters, Mario Kart Wii will allow up to two players on the same Wii to play others online. As with many online DS games, you'll choose to play against random opponents either Worldwide or Continental, or to play against Friends whose friend codes you've entered. In a neat touch, when you join a room with your friends, you'll see their Miis representing their location in the world on a globe similar to that of the Wii's Forecast Channel. In a not so neat touch, the site again reaffirms you'll only be able to chat with predefined messages. To summarize, this means Nintendo trusts you enough to know exactly where in the world your friends are, but not enough to potentially write a swear word in their online presence.
A copy of Mario Kart Wii will allow you to install the Mario Kart Channel, which can be accessed even when the game disc isn't in your system. Along with standard features like seeing which of your friends are online and keeping up with their rankings on leaderboards for every track, the Mario Kart Channel will also give you the option of downloading Ghosts and racing against them offline. You can download Ghosts of your friends' runs if they choose to upload them, or Ghosts of rivals -- players throughout the world whose best runs on a track are only slightly better than yours. You'll of course also be able to upload Ghost runs of your own. And lastly, the Mario Kart Channel will host Competitions, which are special race challenges you can download that are similar to the Missions in Mario Kart DS.
For all the jokes and criticisms levied at Nintendo for their lackluster online offerings, there really isn't anything crucially missing here that you'd find in the standard Xbox Live- or PSN-enabled title. Except, of course, for the self-censored communication limitations. But hey -- baby steps, right? "
--1up
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on 03/06 at 02:09 PM
This would be good news it it was 1998 but it's not and Nintendo is shooting themselves in the face. I know the expression is shooting themselves in the foot but that doesn't describe the horror that Nintendo has become. They are like the Shaq of Video Games, used to be the best but lost it all in 1 off-season. Everything they bring out now is for people under the age of 9 it seems like and their big news is there will be a Mario Kart Channel that will allow you to download ghosts to race against off-line and see a leaderboard. Nobody cares about that crap. The leaderboard people may midly care about but not the ghosts. My Friends have Wii and some of us have 360 so we always play 360 but every now and then we get on the Wii to see what is new and the only channels we saw for 6 months were the Metroid Prime Channel (which was nice with all the previews), the Everybody Votes Channel (gayer then Michael Stipe), and that's about it. Step your game up Nintendo or Just step off already!!!!!
· Posted by
on 03/19 at 12:29 PM
"their big news is there will be a Mario Kart Channel that will allow you to download ghosts to race against off-line and see a leaderboard."
"Nobody cares about that crap."
Well, I'm sorry, have you been lobotomized recently? Or have you been living in a freaking cave?
You yourself have a 360, and damn just about ANYBODY who plays online cares about leaderboards. You know why? We have enough intelligence to see who's the best of the best, and see their tactics while playing.
We don't go Duuhhhhh, I can shootz da other halo dudez, an im only 5!!!1!!!111
"My Friends have Wii and some of us have 360 so we always play 360 but every now and then we get on the Wii to see what is new"
Well, what the heck do you play, then? Obviously you don't play online, judging by your stagnation of knowledge. Halo? The argument still stands that Halo is pretty... one sided, I guess. No depth to it. Just run up and shoot.
Hell, I still play Metroid Prime 3 with my friends spotting me to find the secrets and stuff. If there was co-op or multi-player, that'd be freaking awesome.
This shows that Nintendo's progressing in their game plan. Who knows? Maybe they're using this time to study XBLA and PSN to come up with their own online service. They are stepping up their game.
· Posted by
on 06/07 at 06:43 AM
I would hardly consider this full featured online functionality. Most of Nintendo’s online offerings are nothing worth jumping up and down about. They're always offering leader boards or other static and boring offerings. It gets stale very quickly and eventually the online features become these mini ghost towns. There is little payoff or worthwhile benefit for gamers to post a bunch of statistics and ghost data. Why not do what makes sense and let people race against each other?!
· Posted by
on 09/28 at 12:35 AM
My Friends have Wii and some of us have 360 so we always play 360 but every now and then we get on the Wii to see what is new and the only channels we saw for 6 months were the Metroid Prime Channel (which was nice with all the previews), the Everybody Votes Channel (gayer then Michael Stipe), and that's about it. Step your game up Nintendo or Just step off already!!!!! Thanks for sharing....
· Posted by
on 11/12 at 06:20 AM
Everything they bring out now is for people under the age of 9 it seems like and their big news is there will be a Mario Kart Channel that will allow you to download ghosts to race against off-line and see a leader board. Nobody cares about that crap.
· Posted by
on 11/13 at 06:47 AM
Yes i agree, it's a really awesome game. Except when it comes to wifi. The only bad thing is probably, you can't play custom stages on wifi.Plus when you want to chat with your friends, you have to keep erasing your previous message and it's sometimes difficult to communicate with your friends.
· Posted by
on 07/20 at 04:29 PM
I am glad to see this site because i am a big fan of games.Even now at this age i play games at my leisure time.So i will always look visit this site for updates.Best wishes to you.
· Posted by
on 12/10 at 03:10 AM
I had my Wii since its launch beast, I have not a friend. Unless Friend Code is amended in line on the Wii is useless. I have not turned the thing over the months.
· Posted by
on 08/14 at 04:42 AM
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