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I’ll be shocked if it doesn’t win best soundtrack at game awards this year, just when I thought Mario Kart 8 was the pinnacle of music in a Mario Kart game this one overtakes it with ease. The remixes are insane and some of the new songs aswell have some oomph. Just a few I really like





 

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Starting to develop symptoms of Mario Kart rage so that's a sign it's a good game.

Copped 3 blue shells in knock out tour playing against the CPU and I'm second for the last 2 stages and no blue shells whatsoever and I didn't even get close to catching up to first place.

First time playing when my blood started to boil.
 
Our review is live (not mine, not a Nintendo fan) – 6.5/10


Agree with many things said, but the score just doesn't reflect it.

I can see a large subset that will dislike the changes but that doesn't make a 9/10 kart racer a 6.5, at least IMO.

Seems dirty the same publication would give AFL23 a 5 at release...
 
Knockout is epic. I know that everything is copying Fortnite these days, but this is a darn good copy!

Pretty sure F-Zero had this back in the day but you could kill the opponents HP.
 
Agree with many things said, but the score just doesn't reflect it.

I can see a large subset that will dislike the changes but that doesn't make a 9/10 kart racer a 6.5, at least IMO.

Seems dirty the same publication would give AFL23 a 5 at release...
I can't speak for James but I think it was a combination of the empty open world and the price.

AFL23 now I'm copping strays. On launch I was bullish that it would be patched quickly, seems I was wrong on that one. I do think that when it worked it worked well. I think they've built on that in AFL26, which I am still working through for review with 10,000 other games
 
Pretty sure F-Zero had this back in the day but you could kill the opponents HP.
On the 64 it did. It was endless until you died or the computers did.
 
I can't speak for James but I think it was a combination of the empty open world and the price.

AFL23 now I'm copping strays. On launch I was bullish that it would be patched quickly, seems I was wrong on that one. I do think that when it worked it worked well. I think they've built on that in AFL26, which I am still working through for review with 10,000 other games

Fair enough, ultimately it is his opinion. Just find that kind of score a bit incongruous to the negatives listed.

I admit I don't know what his scale usually is, if he thinks MK8 is a 7/10 for example I suppose it makes sense.
 

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Copped 3 blue shells in knock out tour playing against the CPU and I'm second for the last 2 stages and no blue shells whatsoever and I didn't even get close to catching up to first place.

First time playing when my blood started to boil.

Took me about 6 goes to get 1st on golden rally.

Got down to the last 4 each time then kept getting stooged on the last section of the last track.

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I can see a large subset that will dislike the changes but that doesn't make a 9/10 kart racer a 6.5, at least IMO.

I've lived long enough on this planet to realise the same people that don't like change are the same ones that would complain it they kept it the same as MK8.

What kept me going back to MK8 for many years was that you knew your stats for online racing.

Not sure I'll have the same commitment to online racing in MKW if they don't include it in an update.
 
Knockout is epic. I know that everything is copying Fortnite these days, but this is a darn good copy!
Twisted Metal & Destruction Derby were last man standing ( Not quite knockout) but for mine Twisted Metal was so much fun growing up. Wish they would make another one now with the way graphics are and how many racers you could get onto the screen at once would be good fun I reckon.
 

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Not having issues with them having 24 racers.

They did it to accommodate the open world driving they wanted to incorporate.

I played plenty of MK8 before the Switch 2 was released and found sometimes there was to much space on the tracks where you'd be looking at the map at what's behind you too many times instead of you just looking ahead and actually racing.
 

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