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The party continues for the 8th time, with Mario and friends getting crazy in a variety of mini-games. The world's most popular party video game is getting a lot crazier in Mario Party for the Wii! Whether you're shaking up cola cans or lassoing barrels, you and your friends will be drawn into the action like never before using the Wii Remote. All new features/boards!
Mario Party for Wii also includes dozens of new mini-games, six new party boards and many new game modes. In a series first, players can transform their characters into many forms, such as player-smashing boulders and coin-sucking vampires. Mario Party Wii includes "extra large" mini games like Star Carnival Bowling and Table Menace. One to four players can play Mario Party, each with a Wii Remote. FEATURES
* Play with Motion Control: Row your way through a river race, punch a statue to pieces, steer race cars, mopeds and go-karts, handle a balancing pole while walking a tightrope. * Play Using the Pointer: Shoot at Boos in a haunted house, drag and drop toppings in a cake-decorating competition, select the correct answers in game-show challenges. * Play Using the Wii Remote's Buttons: Jump and pummel your way through a football brawl, hop and run across a field of spinning platforms. Jan Code: 4902370515862 View the back cover and screenshots on the main NCSX website.
NCS Game Notes
» Mario leaps on screen and spins around before the Mario Party 8 title screen appears with 11 of his friends and enemies encased in golden circular portraits. » Start a new game and a party is in progress with balloons filling the skies above a theme park where the visitors are milling about like ants. From above the scene is grand and very festive. An emcee flies into view and bellows out, "Welcome to the Star Carnival!" in English while Japanese subtitles are shown below. Note that the text in the game is only in Japanese but since it's a Mario Party game, its fairly easy to play and get into without reading a lick of Japanese. Players move around a board game setting and pick up bonuses and visit different areas. There's a porpoise that you can ride to reach other areas of the playboard but it'll cost 10-15 coins per trip. » Mario Party 8 may be played in the following configurations 1P, COM, COM, COM
1P, 2P, COM, COM
1P, 2P, 3P, COM
1P, 2P, 3P, 4P » Landing on a blue square automatically grants you 3 coins but if you land on a red square, you'll lose 3 coins automatically. » At the end of every round, a new mini-game chosen at random starts. When it's time to play mini-games, the Wii Remote is used exclusively for control. » There was one point in the game where the Princess landed on a square and three Goomba pirates picked her up, placed her in a cannon on their ship, and launched her all the way back to the starting line. » Sample of mini-games featured: ● Waterskiing game where the four players are pulled behind a speedboat. Use the Wii Remote to position your man so that he jumps off ramps and picks up coins that are littered on the water. ● Football game where two bouncing footballs are carried onto two respective goals on either side of the field. Your opponents can jump on top of you or smash at you to stop your progress. ● Competitors ride on personal hovercraft and shoot at the other players inside an arena. The Wii Remote is held in both hands and to thrust forward, tilt the Wii Remote downwards. To move left or right, simply pitch the Wii Remote left or right. ● Three of your competitors are on a helicopter and shooting balloons at you. Try to make it to the top of a tower while a barrage is being fired your way. The targeting scopes of the firing squad is shown on the screen. If you make it to the top, you'll earn 10 coins. ● Stay on top of an ice floe as it bobs to and fro as your three competitors are pushing and stomping. A koopa shell is dropped every once in a while which may be used as a sliding projectile against your opponents. Whomever stays on the floe wins and keeps the pot (10 x 4 coins). ● Four players are in an arena and a couple of hundred balloons are dropped onto the arena. Hop around and try to destroy as many balloons as possible. As the number of balloons dwindle down, it's more difficult to pop them. We found that leaping across the screen in maniacal fashion worked best. Whoever reaches 50 balloons first wins. ● Snowboarding game where players get on boards and slide their way downhill while riding ramps and avoiding snowmen. The Wii Remote is held with one hand and is pointed forward. Tilt it from side to side to move your boarder. Riding the ramps is important since it boosts your overall speed. NCS Game Notes are ©NCSX 2007. All rights reserved. No reproduction in whole or in part of this document may be made without express written consent of National Console Support, Inc.
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