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[Francis]

A flood of Mario Kart info has come racing in this morning.
Some highlights (from IGN's play):

• Supports all controller types, including Gamecube.
  
• 12 racers on the track at once. Including Wifi play.
  
• In Grand Prix, 50CC races are kart exclusive, 100CC races are motorcycle exclusive, 150CC allow a mix.
  
• Each character has six different vehicles right from the start, three karts and three cycles.
  
• On motorcyles, tipping the wheel controller back you can perform wheelies that will, after a certain amount of time, will kick in additional speed boosts.
  
• Boost power builds automatically during a successful powerslide, and the longer you hold it the more boost you'll get out of it. No more waggling. End of snaking?
  
• At the top of a jump, if you flick the wheel upwards, your character will pull off a canned trick animation, and when the kart lands on the ground it'll jolt with an additional surge of momentum. You can also gain speed by drafting another racer.
  
• The player roster will start at 12 characters. Baby Mario, Baby Peach, Toad, Koopa, Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, Princess Peach, Wario, Waluigi, Donkey Kong, and Bowser.
  
• You can race as your Mii characters
  
• At least 32 tracks. 16 old from previous Mario Kart games, and 16 brand new tracks.
  
• New items.. a few are POW block sends out shock waves. A cloud that'll give your player a boost of speed for as long as you hold it, but it has the side-effect of zapping your kart with lightning if you hold onto it for too long. It can be passed from kart to kart by bumping into your competition. Mega Mushroom makes you super-huge.
  
• Wii remote uses speaker to warn you of incoming shells.
  
• Four different profiles in the system save file. Each one keeps track of its own stats.
  
• Tons of stats like Distance traveled, Total Race and Battle count, how much you've used the Wii Wheel, how many tricks you've pulled off, favorite character, favorite vehicle, favorite course, and favorite stage. Nintendo WFC friend race win/losses. Ghosts sent and ghosts received. How many Wi-Fi races you've played and your Wi-Fi Battle mode win/loss record. It'll track how many first place appearances, percentages of times in first place, how many times you hit someone, how many times you've been hit, your ghost race wins/losses, and how many tournaments you've played.
  
• Battle Mode over WiFi. Traditional Balloon Battle and Coin Runner (a timed mode where your team must collect and keep the most coins)
  
• You can play split-screen with a friend and compete online together
  
• "Mario Kart Channel" – currently, this channel is in-game only and not included on the Wii Menu (but that could change), and it's used for players to check up on rankings and times, to upload and download ghost racers, to download tournaments and weekly challenges (like Mario Kart DS-style missions), and other cool network tidbits.
  

Wow, anticipation level is now through the roof! How will I decide what to play... Brawl or this!??!!

[King Harkinian]

[Chin Fish]

I CAN'T WAIT TO BOMB PLAY MARIO KART

[ohclizlE]

Wow! They really tried hard with this instalment (as they did with MKDS) but I wonder if it will capture such a large audience since it isn't the first online game this generation...

[Super Ultimario]

I'm impressed. They did a really nice job on this, I might actually buy it.

[MasterShake178]

Wow... usually..I'm not a big fan of Mario Kart..but all those features make
it sound pretty fun. I might just have to try it out.

[Manpersonguything]

I can't wait!

[yoshiface12]

EPIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this is who im gonna be in the game

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and im gonna be more characters than these posted above!

[Small Sammer Guy]

A massive improvement from before. Mario Kart DD needed work, I am relieved to hear that this Mario Kart is a lot like an original Mario Kart.
Also, I believe this is the 2nd Wii game to utilize a GC controller.

[Merlink]

*crag* yes, I wasn't really expecting anything really exiting until...

[Fancy Wario]

Now THIS is Wii online done right. SSBB should take a hint.

[Shrowser]

Race with Miis? This whole thing sounds schweet.

[Goron Mask]

Oh my...right after my brawl addiction settles down I'll be addicted to this. =O

[Macha]

Motorcycles?

*crag* yes. 8D

[King Harkinian]

Motorcycles? Motorcycles......MOTORCYCLES!!!! *crag* yes!!!!!