Video Game Reviews: Nintendo DS
Mario Kart DS
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MobileTechReview
Grand Prix works much as you'd expect, 3 series featuring 50cc, 100cc, and 150cc, four nitro cups and four retro cups per series, and each cup uses four tracks. So that's 32 tracks repeated at four different speeds, which represent four different
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Thunderbolt
Super Mario Kart is still the best Mario Kart ever, but Mario Kart DS is remarkably close to edging past the original in almost every way.
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UnderGroundOnline
Like its predecessors, the mainstay of Mario Kart DS is the Grand Prix mode, a series of cups with four races each where you'll race against CPU controlled opponents for points. With a total of eight cups, Grand Prix mode isn't terribly time consuming.
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NintendoWorldReport
Nintendo Spin
Mario Kart DS is cartoon racing bliss. It fixes what Double Dash did wrong, brings back what Mario Kart 64 did right, and adds a few new notches to the gameplay. The two-character seating has gone back to one. The ability to jump has returned. The
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Gameplanet
Mario Kart online also shows Nintendo's single-minded focus on play. There are results but not rankings, placings but no scores. While the game compiles some the best of the Mario Kart series in gameplay and content, it also removes most opportunities
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Games First!
Starting with the obvious, we all know the DS isn't exactly a graphic powerhouse, but that doesn't keep Mario Kart from looking good. The characters and karts, despite being low-poly, have so much personality and unique Mario charm that they are
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The Bovine Conspiracy
What makes Mario Kart DS so great? Let’s start with the graphics. Mario Kart is an amazing looking DS game. The Mario Kart games have always been known for their bright, colorful tracks and racers and the current iteration is certainly no exception.
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Gamenikki
Mario Kart DS takes the best of all of the Mario Kart games and puts them together in a game people will still be playing when the next generation of Gameboy comes out.
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Plain Games
During a race the DS’s top screen is dedicated to a 3rd-person view of the course and your kart. Additionally, items, number of laps, and current position are also displayed. On the bottom screen, there are two different view options. The first
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GameShark
The sheer number of options make this game outstanding.
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Planet Gamecube
The concept is simple enough. Mario and pals race around tracks, while firing weapons at each other, to determine who is the best racer. However, it’s been somewhat lacking in the past few Mario Kart games, most notably Mario Kart: Double Dash.
...read the complete Mario Kart DS review at Planet Gamecube
Games are Fun
First off, Graphics. Mario Kart features the smoothest graphics I've seen on the DS. The courses are colorful, the items bright, and the karts and racers truly well done (keep in mind this is by the DS's standards, not that next-gen Xbox 360 you've heard
...read the complete Mario Kart DS review at Games are Fun
Game Revolution
It goes the distance with its plentiful single-player content, provides intelligent, affordable local multiplayer and actually lets you race online.
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GameSpy
I recently wrote a lengthy
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Gaming Age
The game’s graphics are silky smooth and the track designs are fantastic.
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Cubed3
Pre-rendered backgrounds greet you as you switch on, helping to create a visual display that is certainly no letdown. By utilising this type of background it has been possible to make the DS display graphics that could be mistaken for Dreamcast quality
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GameBrink
Undoubtedly the best game in the Mario Kart series, which considering the MK legacy is quite an achievement.
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Club Skill
The Grand Prix, as always, is the key feature to Mario Kart DS in terms of single player. To begin with, there are three cups to race on – 50CC (slowest, but easiest), 100CC and 150CC (fastest, but hardest). It’s probably best, even if you’re a
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Jolt Online Gaming UK
We cannot emphasize this enough – if it’s not on your Christmas list, there’s still time. If you don’t get it from Christmas, don’t worry – just buy it your frigging self. If there were ever a game that was worth buying a console purely to
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Gamerz-Edge
Mario Kart DS is a harmonious blend of everything that was great about the previous installments of the wacky kart-racing series. Rather than reinventing the gameplay in unnecessary ways (for instance, two-person karts), MKDS focuses on what drives the
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Da GameBoyz
One addictive game. With a great single player experience this game gets bonus marks for a great multiplayer experience as well.
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Inside Hotwire 3D
IGN
Nintendo's decade-old franchise gets the DS treatment. Is this sequel as Super as
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DS-x2
Looking beyond the colorful, fun-filled surface and into the actual gameplay itself, we see a truly deep racing game lying in wait for serious players. Several simple yet useful techniques exist to give you an edge above the other players. The first and
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Gamers Europe
In an age of increasing style over substance and companies trying to extract cash from gamers left, right and centre for new "services", it’s truly heartening to see a game done absolutely right, and the setup around it also done absolutely right.
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eToychest
Reason alone to own the DS platform. All of the fun that has been intrinsic to the series is intact, and the much-anticipated online component simply seals the deal. This is best game in the series by far, and perhaps the best kart-style racing game ever
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WHAM! Gaming
the addictive qualities of titles past are present and accounted for, and the opportunity to take home honed strategies out into the world is surely what makes Mario Kart DS so appealing. It's not just the best karting game Nintendo have ever developed; i
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Nintendojo
It is darn near perfect in most ways, and the online mode adds more than it takes away. LAN mode racing is among the year’s greatest gaming experiences. You may well be looking at a contender for game of the year across any platform.
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Lawrence
The Gamecube’s holiday season is looking pretty bare, but thankfully the DS library continues to prosper. And now, literally every classic gamer is without excuse to add a Nintendo DS to their collection with the release of Mario Kart DS. This title
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Next Level Gaming
The best DS game to date. It is like having the best from every Mario Kart game and bundled into one great package.
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Deeko
The embodiment of pure kart racing goodness, an almost faultless paradigm that is undeniably the finest kart racing game created to date.
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GameZone
Is it me or is the new generation of handheld game systems the best thing to happen to the industry since the release of the PSone? Here I am away from my controller, away from my console, and nowhere near a TV screen and yet I am able to steal
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Digital Entertainment News
However, the real star here is the new tracks. While some are fairly standard (anything with Mario, Luigi or Peach's name in it is almost guarunteed to be pretty plain and ordinary), many are some of the most brilliant and imaginative tracks in the
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DS Advanced
Mario Kart has appeared on each one of Nintendo's consoles since the Super Nintendo introduced the series back in 1992. Every release of this genre-spawning kart racer has been met with insane amounts of anticipation and excitement. When the Nintendo DS
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DarkZero
Mario Kart was the beginning of an entire wealth of games in the kart racing genre. Its roots on the SNES as a fast paced, item staged free for all competition have inspired many clones, but nothing yet has come close to what Mario Kart is. At its peak,
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Jaded Gamer
Then Mario Kart DS comes along, enticing me with its promise of online play; something that I have wanted to see added to the series for quite some time. Would it be enough to make the game feel fresh again? Surprisingly, the answer is yes.
You know
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Games Radar UK
Just RPG
The gameplay is rock solid, the replay value is very high, and graphics and sound are very sharp and detailed.
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N-Insanity
If you have the ability to use the WFC and own a DS, I can’t stop recommending purchasing MKDS.
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GameSpot
Balloon battles are back, and better than ever.
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NZGamer
Retro Grand Prix combines classic tracks from all the previous Mario Kart games, across all platforms, into another full set of tracks to make up the Shell, Banana, Leaf and Lightning cups. Tracks such Frappe Snowland, Mario Circuit, Choco Mountain and
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My Gamer
If you own a DS, you need to own Mario Kart DS. This is the kind of game you shouldn’t have to give a score too. Just go out and buy it.
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