Graphics- 8/10Sound- 9.5/10
Gameplay- 10/10
Replay Value- 8/10
Overall- 9/10
Mario Kart 64 is the best Mario Kart game in the series - out of the five that have been released (not including arcade releases.) The single player in this mode is challenging on 150cc but nice and easy on 50cc, just as it should be. The multiplayer battle is entertaining and will keep you and your friends playing for a while.
Mario Kart 64 is the non-serious racing game to own. The cars in this game aren't meant to a huge graphical achievement, nor are the characters. This is simply a good racing game to casually pick up and play, but be careful because before long, you will be hooked. You get hooked so easy because of how close the races end up being. Especially as the races get closer, they sometimes end up being decided right at the finish line. I can remember races that I won because I fired a red shell and Bowser was stopped inches short of the finish line. That reminds me of two other great aspects of this game: the weapons and characters. Much like Diddy Kong Racing, there is as great weapon set that is incorporated. There is the green shell, red shell, blue shell, mushrooms, fake item boxes, bananas, lighting, Boo, and the star. While some do the typical and expected, such as the shells acting as missiles, but some of the items are very unique, such as the lighting, which will shrink all the karts other than the person who used it. This allows the person who used it to go faster than them and run them over. The characters in the game are all characters that you should recognize from past Nintendo titles.
The problem with this game is the graphics, and while there are some vast improvements for the SNES version, there are some things that appear to be the same. The big one being the characters; since the characters are pre-rendered they might look okay at first, but when you turn you can tell how bad they are. The other big graphical problem is the edges of some courses. There are solid walls of repeated images; I much prefer the invisible wall to that. There are some minor clipping problems but nothing that should affect or distract you to much. All of that aside, this is definitely a great purchase or download from the Virtual Console (although apparently you can not save ghosts, which is where Nintendo REALLY f***ed up), but still worth it.
Pros: Close races, Weapon set, Characters
Cons: Character rendering, Solid walls vs. Invisible walls, No memory pack on VC
Review: Dan
*Also available for download on the VC - Review based on original.
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