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Mario Kart 8 is hands down the best entry in the Mario Kart series. The slight modifications and additions made to the actual racing are beneficial to the experience, the track design is consistent and creative, and its presentation is simply impeccable. It’s just a pity that it refuses to bring any new game modes to the table; being an excellent but safe sequel.
Mario Kart 8 keeps several elements introduced by Mario Kart 7 and the Wii version. The game comes almost as an amalgam of those two titles, uniting their qualities in one place. From Mario Kart 7, it takes advantage of the possibility of gliding and racing underwater with a propeller, besides kart customization and [...]
The multiplayer moments that Mario Kart games provide are always entertaining: it’s a chaos of exploding and flying items, no doubt, but it’s usually a controllable chaos. A rookie can take advantage of the stars to not finish in the last place, for example, while experienced players can decelerate when they realize that someone has picked up a blue shell, letting the new first place take the fall. That is, they tend to be games that manage to entertain any type of player and always maintain a good level of competition. In this sense, Mario Kart 7 is a new entry that tries to expand some ideas and improve existing mechanics, being superior to the [...]