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Originally posted by: zerolight
What the heck are Nintendo thinking?

? Its generally accepted that the SNES and GBA versions of Mario Kart were much much better than the N64 version. Yet what do they give us? A game which is clearly based on the N64 version. Big wide tracks, including those city based ones, and they've even gone as far as to remove the go-karts. What made the original title so much fun was that you raced on pretty tight and twisty go-kart tracks. In 150cc mode it was a challenge to get around the track at full speed and required much hopping and sliding to stay on the track. Battle modes too were an art, with well timed red shell "boomeraning back down the adjacent passage into your opponents path. It was a beautiful balanced game. This was lost in the N64 version, where many tracks lost the sense of speed, tracks were too wide so it took less skill to navigate them, and the battle mode maps were pretty poor in comparison to the playability of the SNES version. Along comes GBA version and is universally acclaimed. It redeems the license. Mario Kart is once again great. All Nintendo needed to do was take the exact same levels and gameplay mechanics, and stretch them up vertically on the z-axis to make them 3d, whilst keeping the dimensions the same. The slap on some nice pretty textures, and bingo.. perfect Mario Kart in a real 3d world instead of pseudo 3D mode 7. Do they? No. They give us a sequel to MK64, and its back to dire arcade racing targetted at kids. All I wanted was full screen 4 player MK from the GBA brought upto date on the GC. That would sell in droves, whereas this, I fear, will not. MK64 was a disappointment, and I'd bet this will be too. Depressing.
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first of all how is it generally accepted that the snes and gba mario karts are better when they sold millions of copies less than the N64 version?
second- the big wide tracks were made that way so you could use the new powersliding technique properly, and it was a huge step up in gameplay....Seesh did you ever use the powersliding?
third- they did not remove the go karts, they just made different style ones that correspond to the characters.
the new innovation in gameplay is that you control 2 characters...one drives and one uses powerups...
while changing them on the fly, you can get the difference in handling of the cart with the 2nd character and you can switch back and forth to use each of the characters 8 exclusive powerups... the strategy of this new gameplay innovation will make the game amazing...and tons more fun...AND it will require lots of thinking....making it far far far from being a game for kids.... i rest my case...MKGC will be so Amazing i am ready to fly to japan to buy their version... yes fly, not import...this game will be far and away the best GC period!
currently playing waverace blue storm, metroid prime, zeldaWW, nhl 2003, GTA vice city