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List Price: $34.99
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Rating:  252 reviews
Sales Rank: 27
Platform: Nintendo Ds
Genre: kart_racing_and_flying_games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Nintendo DS
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
MPN: 100730
Model: 73590
UPC: 045496735906
EAN: 0045496735906
ASIN: B000A2R54M
Release Date: November 14, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: Brand new in retail pack, shipping same day with ups. sorry no shipping to HI or AK, OR PO APO ADDRESS .
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this game rox!!! December 13, 2005
9 out of 13 found this review helpful
i love this game because its a totally new mario game! and the wi-fi is easy to use on it! get it!\
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oh and to the person that said ds sucks, that is just your opinion not others and plus a ds rocks and it got a better score online than a psp!!!!!!
Just plain awesome August 11, 2006
N. Durham (Philadelphia, PA)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
As of this writing, Mario Kart DS is hands down the absolute best game available for the DS. As one would expect from the long running series, Mario Kart DS allows you to play as Mario and co. in a series of go-kart races. The gameplay mechanics will feel like putting on an old glove for longtime fans of the series, while newcomers will have no trouble getting into the game. As you progress through the various circuits, you'll find bonus tracks, karts, and characters to unlock as well, which adds a nice amount of replayability to the single player mode. Along with the new tracks, there are some retro tracks available as well taken from the past incarnations of the series. The real main attraction of Mario Kart DS however, is the fantastic Wi-Fi multiplayer mode. There are only a handful of DS games which support Wi-Fi capability, and none is better at it than Mario Kart. This is where the real meat and potatoes of the game lies, and you'll have a hard time putting down your DS after getting a taste of it. The game looks, sounds, and plays phenominally, and all in all, Mario Kart DS is yet another excellent, must own, first party title for the DS, and the Wi-Fi options make it even more of a smash.
Mario Kart DS is easily the best in series November 16, 2005
C. Bakehorn (Bloomington, IN)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I had my doubts about Mario Kart DS in the early stages of its development. Mario Kart: Double Dash (Gamecube) was never one of my favorite games, and I was hoping that Nintendo would stick to the roots with their DS edition of the high-selling, fan-favorite racing game. With Mario Kart DS, they've done just that.
It seems that the developers took everything great from Super Mario Kart (SNES), Mario Kart 64 (N64), Mario Kart Super Circuit (GBA), and Mario Kart: Double Dash (GC) and put all of those elements into a single Mario Kart game. When you consider how wonderful all of these games have been and how much fun they still are today, that's quite an achievement. Mario Kart DS features some of the same gameplay modes that fans have seen for years: Grand Prix, Time Trial, and Battle. They're the same as always, with three ranks of difficulty in Grand Prix and several different battle modes in Battle.
Nintendo didn't stop with the classic game modes. In fact, they added another interesting mode called "Challenge" in which you pick up certain numbers of coins or do a set number of power slides in a lap under a certain amount of time. These challenges can be excruciatingly difficult but they make you a much more weathered Mario Kart player and therefore are a great addition to the game. Also, Multiplayer has come in the form of Nintendo's first WiFi-enabled online multiplayer DS game. The races in WiFi multiplayer are relatively simple but it's a great addition to the game nonetheless.
On the track itself, the controls are easy but don't utilize the DS very much--driving is done with the directional pad, acceleration and braking are done with the A and B buttons, power sliding is done with the R trigger, and item usage comes from the L trigger. This simple system goes alongside several classic items and three new ones. The Bullet Bill thrusts you forward knocking anyone in your path off of the track. The Bob-Omb explodes, causing anything in its blast radius to spin out and slow down considerably. Last of all, the Blooper spits ink on every other racer's screen, making steering very difficult due to limited visibility.
Visually Mario Kart DS stands out as one of the best-looking Nintendo DS games to date. It faithfully recreates some of the classic 3D tracks from Mario Kart 64 and Double Dash (like the ghost house level from MK64 and Luigi's Circuit from MKDD) while also bringing SNES and GBA tracks to life in 3D. Of course, there have also been sixteen new tracks added to the mix, making a grand total of 32 different tracks that all look unique but beautifully show off the wacky Nintendo universe. The music from all of the classic tracks return as well (even the GBA tracks) and the new beats are as catchy as the old ones. Sound bytes, like the different celebrations and yelps of pain when a character is hit with a shell, sound just like they always have.
Mario Kart DS is the essential Nintendo DS game. If you've almost given up on the DS, than you clearly haven't played Mario Kart DS and for that reason you're missing out. MKDS is being sold for $35, and if you see it how I do, that's $1.09 per race track and you could easily get more than a few dozen hours of enjoyment out of this before you want to play something else. Is Mario Kart DS worth it? I'd say so.
Great game November 19, 2006
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Take this from a kid's point of view, not some fourty year old couch potato kind of man. After all, children are optimistic, right? Wrong. I'm telling you the RAW truth about Mario Kart for Nintendo DS.
This is one of the greatest games created yet for the DS system. The graphics are wonderful, and it is just overall really fun. You even get to pick your character from a number of Mario and Luigi thingamabobers. You also get to pick your "kart" A.K.A. car.
I recommend this game to everyone. You'll REALLY enjoy it, I swear! And if you don't, that's crazy.
Classic and Still the Best December 9, 2006
E. Byers (San Diego, CA)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
This is the one game you have to buy for your DS. It's one of the most fun, and one of the best games. It's a lot of fun multiplayer, and it's also a lot of fun single player. Plus it combines almost all the tracks from previous Mario Karts.
Just buy it, you need this.
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