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Mario Party 8 (Wii)
from: Nintendo

List Price: £39.99

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Audience Rating: Parental Guidance
Binding: Video Game
Brand: Nintendo
EAN: 0827307953279
ESRB Age Rating: Everyone
Label: Nintendo
Manufacturer: Nintendo
Manufacturer Maximum Age: 18 years
Manufacturer Minimum Age: 132 months
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Publisher: Nintendo
Release Date: August 03, 2007
Studio: Nintendo
Sales Rank: 244
MPN: RVL P RM8E

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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!

Amazon.co.uk Preview:
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

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Awful
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

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- A dissapointing cash in (ka-ching)!
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 ... Read More:

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- Endless fun!
Well, when i first bought the wii i got a package which included this game as well, when i first started it up and began playing i was bored, i had no idea what i was doing or what the point of the game was, it went into it's boix and did not see the daylight for another few months!

I then however had some friends round, they looked through my games and wanted to play this, i told them it was rubbish bu they insisted, when we started up the game and began clicking around i realised that it actually wasn't hard to understand at all, in fact it was really simple!

There are so many games in here it is unbelievable! We spent hours playing on it and all of the mini games and the extras zone, then when they had gone home i ... Read More:

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- I want to ask Nintendo for my money back!!!
i've heard good things about this game, and i don't know why!!!

The game is dreadful right form the star, the guy in the hat is annoying, there's no fun in there at all the graphics are absolutely appalling, the title screen and much of the set up appear in 14/9 but then the actual games go to 4/3 and look blocky and sluggish. i actually thought there was something wrong with the way my Tv or wii was set up and then after discovering no its just how the game is i started wondering, am i missing something here, is this game really as bad as i think it is i read through the manual and read some stuff online and tried again and came to the conclusion that this game really sucks.

after only an hour of gameplay I'm about to ... Read More:

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- Boring boardgames and an unbelievably irritating interface ruin the mini-games
There's one thing you need to know about Mario Party 8 before you buy it - be prepared to do a lot of reading during the game! The game has an incredibly irritating interface whereby it bombards you with constant information throughout the game which can only be cleared by pressing the A key. Consequently, you spend most of the time repeatedly pressing the A key to get rid of the constant barrage of messages. In fact before the game even starts you are forced to read through an endless parade of information boxes that end up making things more confusing and leaving you wondering when on earth this game is going to start. For a game aimed at kids as well as adults I fail to see how any child would have the patience to read through so much claptrap ... Read More:

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