Sunday, 9 November 2008

Mario Kart Wii

Mario Kart Wii is the latest addition of the Mario Kart series. Designed with the Wii in mind you could say it was designed for the Wii, So what do you get with Mario Kart Wii, well you get a Wii Wheel thrown in the package, giving you a more realistic driving experience. It is, however, compatible with other controllers as well. Mario Kart Wii still has its classic Mario Kart characters as well as additional characters.

Mario Kart Wii requires you to have 23 blocks on the player's Wii system so you can save game data. The game data can't be copied so don't bother waste your time trying. This feature prevents players from transfering game data from one wii to another. The Mario Kart Channel uses 78 blocks, but unlike the game data, players can actually copy the channel onto their SD cards.

The great thing about Mario Kart Wii is that up to 12 players can race against each other to the finish in multi-lap race around a given circuit, you can employ all sorts of tricks, shortcuts, horseplay to earn yourself first place. You can also select twelve types of vehicles, six karts, and six bikes, to compete in each of the three classes available. Your selected Vehicles will vary depending on your characters weight, as will your colour scheme, depending on which character is shown.


Tournaments

If you fancy your chances against other opponents online there is a list of tournaments available, there is a new mode in Mario Kart Wii called "Tournament Mode", the PAL version of this is called the "Competition Mode".
You can play the Tournaments on the Mario Kart Channel, but make sure the Mario Kart Wii disc is in the Wii. You will of course need an internet connection, and Wii Connect 24 to be turned on before they can be played. After a while, a tournament is archived to make room for a new one. However, you can still view the rankings of older tournaments on the ranking table.



Types of Tournaments available

  • VS. Race - A standard VS. race; however you will find the race courses are somewhat altered.

  • Time Trial - A standard Time Trial; race courses are somewhat altered.

  • Numbered Gates - You must drive through the gates in order, as fast as you possible can.

  • Coin Collecting - Here you must collect the coins on the stage as fast as you can.

  • Boss Battle - You must fight against a boss from Super Mario Galaxy or New Super Mario Bro.- These Tournaments are played on special stages.


There is a new feature called "Tricks" or "Stunts" and it is now a part of gameplay. When a player performs a trick, the player is able to gain a momentary boost of speed, which allows characters to do a few different things, such as grabbing an Item Box out of midair. One example of trick is pulling off acrobatics in air, which can be performed by shaking the Wii Wheel upward, but try not to shake your arms off, while doing this, ha ha ha!


Guess what, Mario Kart Wii also features a text chat in online multi-player Mode. You can send pre-written phrases to other players before the series of races starts. Unfortunately you cannot type your own message, because this facility is not available, however you can text when racing or battling against your friends or other competitors.


You can grab yourself a copy of Mario Kart Wii plus many more wii games for a one off membership.

Sunday, 2 November 2008

Mario Kart Cheats Wii

Mario Kart Wii marks the latest addition to the much loved and effortlessly fun racing series from Nintendo. Below are some hints and tips you can use to make your gameplay a little more interesting, Mario Kart Wii is a great game to play. I have added some extra hints and tips in addition to Cheats for Mario Kart Wii articles. If you want more like these for other wii games just fill out your details to the right of this page for your free cheats and tips guide newsletter and ebook.



Unlockable: B-Dasher (Medium Kart) for Mario Kart Wii


To unlock the medium kart called B-Dasher, you have to unlock all twenty-four expert staff ghost data entries. Below are the times needed to unlock them



Bowser's Castle | 03:04.836 | 02.55.017 | 02.42.098
Coconut Mall | 02:30.764 | 02.24.788 | 02.13.333
Daisy Circuit | 01:56.822 | 01.48.791 | 01.41.362
DK's Snowboard Cross | 02:34.693 | 02.24.725 | 02.17.546
Dry Dry Ruins | 02:30.949 | 02.21.681 | 02.14.286DS
Delfino Square | 02:41.807 | 02.33.107 | 02.24.169
DS Desert Hills | 02:10.233 | 02.01.141 | 01.52.686
DS Peach Gardens | 02:34.894 | 02.29.006 | 02.16.777
DS Yoshi Falls | 01:16.461 | 01.12.901 | 01.09.175
GBA Bowser Castle 3 | 02:58.304 | 02.50.637 | 02.39.391
GBA Shy Guy Beach | 01:45.568 | 01.39.255 | 01.32.867
GCN DK Mountain | 02:57.744 | 02.50.248 | 02.38.130
GCN Mario Circuit | 01:59.771 | 01.55.267 | 01.49.939
GCN Peach Beach | 01:34.233 | 01.30.698 | 01.23.140
GCN Waluigi Stadium | 02:32.882 | 02.24.645 | 02.12.367
Grumble Volcano | 02:28.237 | 02.19.524 | 02.11.852
Koopa Cape | 03:03.022 | 02.54.897 | 02.41.370
Luigi Circuit | 01:29.670 | 01:24.957 | 01:19.419
Maple Treeway | 02:58.633 | 02.50.229 | 02.37.812
Mario Circuit | 01:44.777 | 01.39.183 | 01.33.702
Moo Moo Meadows | 01:37.856 | 01.33.571 | 01.25.909
Moonview Highway | 02:16.802 | 02.07.016 | 02.04.163
Mushroom Gorge | 02:16.110 | 02.05.494 | 02.01.011



Avoid POW Blocks for Mario Kart


• If you flick upward your steering wheel or Wii remote when a POW is about to strike, you can avoid the full impact of that crappy weapon! You'll lose the weapon you have but at least you won't lose any speed!



Alternate Title Screen for Mario Kart


• Win each and every cup available in the game for a different title screen to the game.



50cc Bikes for Mario Kart


• Earn all of the trophies on each 50cc cup race and you'll be allowed to ride bikes.



You can grab yourself a copy of Mario Kart wii and many more wii games for just a small one off membership fee. If you’re still buying your Nintendo Wii Games from your local games shop, stop!, now you don’t have to. there’s a lot easier way to get all the wii games you can handle. The internet has recently become popular for platforms like the Playstation 2 and the PSP but now you can download your Wii Games online. Wii Media Downloads is the first online service that allows you to do this. Just think you only have to pay a small one-time fee, less than the price of one Wii game, and you get access to a huge database of all the latest games.