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Mario Party 8 (Wii) | 
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Category: Video Games
List Price: £39.99
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Rating:  66 reviews
Sales Rank: 220
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Genre: arcade-games
Rating: To Be Announced
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 11 - 18 years
Operating System: Nintendo Wii
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
MPN: RVL P RM8E
UPC: 827307953279
EAN: 0045496900045
ASIN: B000LSJKAM
Release Date: August 3, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Although they love their sequels as much as any company, Nintendo aren't usually ones to go in for yearly updates. The Mario Party series, developed by Bomberman creators Hudson, is their only example of the phenomena. As such, the series was always guaranteed to make an early appearance on the Wii - and with good reason too since its mix of board game antics and multiplayer mini-games are perfectly suited to the motion control of the Wii remote. Whereas some of the previous sequels have seemed a little unnecessary, this one actually feels like a brand new game. There are six new boards and fourteen different playable characters from amongst the usual Mushroom Kingdom pantheon. There's also a new power-up system replacing the "orbs" of previous games with "candy". These allow characters to transform into different forms to avoid traps and nobble other players, ranging from an airplane, to a bowling ball and a vampire.Of course what's most anticipated about the game is the 70 plus different mini-games, as usual ordered into 1 vs. 3, 2 vs. 2 and free-for-all games. These involve such activities as using the Wii remote to ride a water ski, tightrope walking, lassoing barrels, paddling a rowing boat with a partner, shooting on a target range and being the first to give your pet Chomp a wash. The games and presentation may all seem very cute but as ever the game is an expert at tempting you to cheat and conspire against your fellow players at every opportunity, making this the one family board game you won't mind having an argument over.
HARRISON DENT
Product Description
Roll up, roll up! The carnival is in town and it's time to party! Join Mario, Luigi, Peach, Yoshi, DK and more of your favourite Nintendo characters as they compete across five brand new game boards and more than 60 new minigames to win the coveted prize: a year's supply of candy! But Bowser isn't about to let them get away with it... For the first Mario Party on Wii, up to four players roll virtual dice and move around the game boards (ranging from a haunted house to a moving train and a treasure island) before competing in crazy minigames that make full use of the Wii Remote; such as tightrope walking, skipping, snowboarding, boat rowing, lassoing and even cake decorating. As well as the main, madcap multiplayer game, Mario Party 8 also features a special single-player only mode, a minigame-only mode, a bazaar where you can unlock new minigames and goodies, and a mode made specifically for playing as Mii characters!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 61 more reviews...
 Mario Party 8 (Wii) January 4, 2009
I love playing this game.
I have it on my Nintendo DS and GameCube and totally love it.
It keeps you busy for hours and i'll never get tired of playing it.
 great game December 4, 2008
A fantastic game fun for every 1, played it with the family and every1 ebjoyed it, i would advise everybody to buy this game
Lots of fun for your party! October 25, 2008
Let it be known that this was my first experience of the Mario Party series, so I don't know how it compares to others. My experience with this game is that it's lots of fun, the main games are board game style, turn taking ones, where the aim is usually either to get a certain amount of stars (which are strategically placed around the board), or coins, to buy something from a character hidden in the board game. There are also tons of mini games, and you unlock more as you play. It's a family game, or a game you can play for fun with a group of people (hence the title 'party', hehe). I really enjoy playing it, my one annoyance (and it's a small one), is the presenter's voice, that's all :)
 Awful September 3, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was looking forward 2 playing this game but it sucked how others liked this at all is amazing Single player is awful multi player only slightly better
A dissapointing cash in (ka-ching)! August 17, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought this game with high hopes. It's the eigth game in a sucessful franchise and the first to appear on the Wii. It seemed that this of all games (think of all the mini games) would have been a match made in heaven with the Wii's motion sensing control system, however we are given a half hearted effort from Nintendo which seems to have had nothing more in mind than cashing in.
I haven't played a Mario party game since the original on the N64 and the first thing I noticed was that it has hardly moved on at all. Sure it worked fine at the time, and if it isn't broke you shouldn't fix it, but you would think by the eigth installment it would have something substantially different about it (ka-ching). The first thing to greet you in this game is an annoying creature in a top hat, who makes annoying noises and gives you loads of unwanted text to crawl through. Then you actually begin the game and you realise it isn't in widescreen, it's instead confined to a box in the centre of your screen. Combine that with the murky graphics and it's a very poor effort on the visuals (ka-ching). The game itself feels quite tired, and is only remotely fun when playing with friends. If you try and play against the AI it just feels so fixed, it's really hard to win against. This is especially frustrating when you have to play against the AI to unlock the final board, which is really more a game of luck than skill. The new maps lack any real imagination apart from one that involves investing in hotels. It isn't great, but at least it trys to be different.
All that wouldn't matter, however, if the minigames themselves worked well with the Wii controller. Unfortunately they don't. None of the minigames have any real depth or are in any way rememorable. They last for around 30 seconds and do very little exciting. The Wii controls are implemented so generically they don't enhance the experience at all, feeling more tacked on than being designed motion control in mind. I remember great minigames from the original Mario Pary on the N64, including my favourite bumper balls (great fun). There is nothing like that in this game, which includes rediculously bland ideas such as shaking a can to see who can make it fizz up the highest. The minigames feel cheap, badly designed and poorly implemented (ka-ching).
I was wondering if I were perhaps being to harsh on this game, after all it is for kids. However having now played Mario Karts Wii, and Super Smash Bros. Brawl (both quality games) I now know that Nintendo is capable of so much more. This game is blatently a cash in, we can see it from the figures. Mario Karts is a brilliant game but the quality has been maintained by only releasing one MK game on every console. Equally Super Smash Bros. (another good game) began life on the N64, and is now on it's third installment, eqauling one game per console. However Mario Party also began life on the N64 but is now on it's eigth installment, that means over three games per console, no wonder the qualities significantly lower (ka-ching). This is a poor, half hearted effort and really is not worth the purchase. Go and get Raving Rabbids if you want a good mini game compilation!
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