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Mario Party 8 (Wii) | 
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| From: Nintendo
Category: Video Games
List Price: £39.99
Buy New: £26.95
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Rating:  64 reviews
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Genre: arcade-games
Rating: Parental Guidance
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 11 - 18 years
Operating System: Nintendo Wii
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
MPN: RVL P RM8E
UPC: 827307953279
EAN: 0045496900045
ASIN: B000LSJKAM
Release Date: August 3, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Official UK product in original packaging. Dispatched next working day from Independent UK High Street Store by 1st class mail
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Product Description
Play with motion control! Row your way down a river, punch a statue to pieces, steer race cars and mopeds, and handle a balancing pole while walking a tightrope. Play with the pointer. Drag and drop decorations onto cakes, shoot Boos in haunted house, quickly choose your answer in a game show. Mash those Wii Remote buttons. Jump and pummel your way through a football brawl, hop and run across an obstacle course of spinning platforms. Mario Party 8 includes six brand-new boards, dozens of minigames and many new modes. In a franchise first, you can collect special power-ups and transform your character into a boulder that smashes rivals or a coin-sucking vampire. Mario Party 8 includes "extra-large" minigames like Star Carnival Bowling and Table Menace
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
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| Customer Reviews: Read 59 more reviews...
 Lots of fun for your party! October 25, 2008
Ms. R. C. Preddy (Umeå, Sweden)
Let it be known that this was my first experience of the Mario Party series, so I don't know how it compares to others. My experience with this game is that it's lots of fun, the main games are board game style, turn taking ones, where the aim is usually either to get a certain amount of stars (which are strategically placed around the board), or coins, to buy something from a character hidden in the board game. There are also tons of mini games, and you unlock more as you play. It's a family game, or a game you can play for fun with a group of people (hence the title 'party', hehe). I really enjoy playing it, my one annoyance (and it's a small one), is the presenter's voice, that's all :)
 Awful September 3, 2008
J. Ansell
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
A dissapointing cash in (ka-ching)! August 17, 2008
Mr. Paul A. Crosby
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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 in this game is an annoying creature in a top hat, who makes annoying noises and gives you loads of unwanted text to crawl through. Then you actually begin the game and you realise it isn't in widescreen, it's instead confined to a box in the centre of your screen. Combine that with the murky graphics and it's a very poor effort on the visuals (ka-ching). The game itself feels quite tired, and is only remotely fun when playing with friends. If you try and play against the AI it just feels so fixed, it's really hard to win against. This is especially frustrating when you have to play against the AI to unlock the final board, which is really more a game of luck than skill. The new maps lack any real imagination apart from one that involves investing in hotels. It isn't great, but at least it trys to be different.
All that wouldn't matter, however, if the minigames themselves worked well with the Wii controller. Unfortunately they don't. None of the minigames have any real depth or are in any way rememorable. They last for around 30 seconds and do very little exciting. The Wii controls are implemented so generically they don't enhance the experience at all, feeling more tacked on than being designed motion control in mind. I remember great minigames from the original Mario Pary on the N64, including my favourite bumper balls (great fun). There is nothing like that in this game, which includes rediculously bland ideas such as shaking a can to see who can make it fizz up the highest. The minigames feel cheap, badly designed and poorly implemented (ka-ching).
I was wondering if I were perhaps being to harsh on this game, after all it is for kids. However having now played Mario Karts Wii, and Super Smash Bros. Brawl (both quality games) I now know that Nintendo is capable of so much more. This game is blatently a cash in, we can see it from the figures. Mario Karts is a brilliant game but the quality has been maintained by only releasing one MK game on every console. Equally Super Smash Bros. (another good game) began life on the N64, and is now on it's third installment, eqauling one game per console. However Mario Party also began life on the N64 but is now on it's eigth installment, that means over three games per console, no wonder the qualities significantly lower (ka-ching). This is a poor, half hearted effort and really is not worth the purchase. Go and get Raving Rabbids if you want a good mini game compilation!
 Endless fun! August 8, 2008
S. Jones
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 moved onto play he adventure mode as you could call it, well it is basically playing a board game, the one on one with the computer is fun and simple and all the boards are completely different with different rules and suprises.
You can even play the board game in multiplayer, this is loads of fun and it'll have the whole room in tears, the simpleness of the idea makes it that so much more fun and enjoyable, and the best part is, no one cares if they win or loose, it really is the taking part and the having fun tha counts. Even the mini games are fun as single player.
Overall this is a great game for anyone whether it be by yourself or with friends, the music as usual is completely annoying but who cares, the graphics are good and the use of the controller on all the mini games and in the extras zone is superb and really interactive! Definite keeper, would reccomend!
I want to ask Nintendo for my money back!!! July 27, 2008
M. Bedford (London UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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 sell it on.
also the only reason i game this game 1 star is because amazon wont let you give it ZERO!!!
Avoid and buy something thats actually fun to play like mario kart!!!
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