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Turn Your Racing Experience Upside Down!

For the first time, Nintendo’s Mario Kart franchise comes to the Wii U console in full HD, introducing new racing circuit designs and anti-gravity karts that will have players driving upside down. Players will also enjoy a variety of series-favorite features, including the return of 12-player online competitive play, hang-gliders, underwater racing and motorbikes.

Features:

The new anti-gravity feature allows for never-imagined racing circuit designs. Players will speed through courses and find themselves suddenly racing on walls in a haunted mansion or upside-down over Princess Peach’s Castle as their wheels automatically rotate and shift into anti-gravity gear.

Mario Kart TV lets players share highlight videos they submitted to Miiverse.
Experience a wealth of features that span the series, including 12-player online competitive play. Elements first introduced in Mario Kart 7, such as hang gliders and underwater racing, along with elements introduced in Mario Kart Wii, such as motorbikes and performing tricks in mid-air, also make their return.

Fan-favorites Waluigi and Toadette re-join the cast of familiar characters from the Mushroom Kingdom.

Crisp HD graphics and a 60-frames-per-second frame rate offer players the most visually stunning entry in the series yet.

- features hovering karts and bikes
- also includes gliders and under-water propellers
- tracks now spiral and twist out of control
- tracks split into hidden areas, side paths and more
- collect coins to boost top speed
- Mushroom Kingdom /Mario Circuit track
- multi-tiered power sliding, speed and road traction
- coastal stage appears to take design cues from Mario Sunshine’s Delfina Island and Wii Sports Wuhu Island
- also seems to be inspired by San Francisco
- “Boo House” has branching paths, jumps that require your glider and obstacles like undead skeletons with hammers, plus areas with water held in place by force fields

Drive on walls, drive upside down, drive through the sky and underwater in Mario Kart 8, coming to the Wii U. Motorcycles also return.