Mario Kart Wii
Mario Kart Wii is a video game that consists of 4 releases
Reviewed on July 9, 2008
Mario Kart Wii lives up to series expectations in the safest ways imaginable.
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Get online and race in this Wii update of the long-running Mario Kart series. Mario Kart Wii is one of the best-selling Wii games, selling over 6 million copies worldwide. It is the 6th installment of the series.
Overview
The game's official logo.
The game's beta logo.
New Features
Mario Kart Wii Introduces several new features to the franchise, including motorbikes, support for up to twelve racers at a time, and Internet-based racing over the Wii's Wi-Fi connection. Mario Kart Wii ships with the Wii Wheel, a plastic shell designed to hold the Wii Remote and act as a more-realistic interface for the game, which went through at least 30 different iterations before a final design was decided upon.
Characters
Like in earlier iterations in the franchise, all characters in Mario Kart Wii are separated into three weight classes: Light, Medium and Heavy (formerly Lightweight, Middleweight and Hevyweight). Light characters have good handling, faster acceleration times, but lower maximum driving speeds, whereas Heavy racers have poor handling, slow acceleration times and higher maximum speeds. Medium characters are evenly balanced between the two extremes.A total of 26 characters are available throughout the game. After starting out with 12 characters, and an additional 14 characters can be unlocked.
Starting Characters 
Toad
Light
Medium
Heavy
Unlockable Characters
LightMedium
Heavy
- King Boo
- Rosalina (will unlock when Super Mario Galaxy has been played on the same console)
- Funky Kong
- Dry Bowser
Variable (Weight dependent on your Mii)
- Mii Outfit A
- Mii Outfit B
Tracks
Like Mario Kart DS, Mario Kart Wii introduces sixteen new tracks, and revisits a further sixteen courses from previous iterations in the Mario Kart series. These are separated into two different tiers, and then further broken up into four cups apiece. The third and fourth cups for each tier can only be unlocked by beating the previous two cups, a process which must be repeated for each speed class.
New Tracks
Flower Cup
Star Cup
Rainbow Road
Special Cup
Retro Tracks
Shell Cup- GCN Peach Beach
- DS Yoshi Falls
DS Yoshi Falls - SNES Ghost Valley 2
- N64 Mario Raceway
Banana Cup
- N64 Sherbet Land
- GBA Shy Guy Beach
- DS Delfino Square
- GCN Waluigi Stadium
GCN Waluigi Stadium
Leaf Cup
- DS Desert Hills
- GBA Bowser Castle 3
- N64 DK's Jungle Parkway
- GCN Mario Circuit
GCN Mario Circuit
Lightning Cup
- SNES Mario Circuit 3
- DS Peach Garden
- GCN DK Mountain
- N64 Bowser's Castle
Battle Mode and Arenas
In addition to the new tracks, Mario Kart Wii has 10 battle mode arenas (5 new and 5 retro) to compete in during Balloon Battle and the all new Coin Runners. These 2 battle games last 3 minutes per match and the best part... it is in teams.
New Arenas
- Delfino Pier
- Funky Stadium
Funky Stadium - Chain Chomp Wheel
- Thwomp Desert
- Block Plaza
Retro Arenas
- SNES Battle Course 4
- DS Twilight House
- GCN Cookie Land
GCN Cookie Land - GBA Battle Course 3
- N64 Skyscraper
| Game Name | Mario Kart Wii |
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| Original US Release |
April 27, 2008
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| Aliases | MKW |
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OFLC: G
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CERO: A
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| ESRB |
ESRB: E
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| PEGI |
PEGI: 3+
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