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Video Games : Mario Party 8 (Wii)
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Rating: 
- Awful
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
Rating: - A dissapointing cash in (ka-ching)!
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!
Rating:
- Endless fun!
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!
Rating: - I want to ask Nintendo for my money back!!!
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!!!
Rating:
- Boring boardgames and an unbelievably irritating interface ruin the mini-games
There's one thing you need to know about Mario Party 8 before you buy it - be prepared to do a lot of reading during the game! The game has an incredibly irritating interface whereby it bombards you with constant information throughout the game which can only be cleared by pressing the A key. Consequently, you spend most of the time repeatedly pressing the A key to get rid of the constant barrage of messages. In fact before the game even starts you are forced to read through an endless parade of information boxes that end up making things more confusing and leaving you wondering when on earth this game is going to start. For a game aimed at kids as well as adults I fail to see how any child would have the patience to read through so much claptrap before the game begins, it really is that tedious.
After reading what seems like a small book worth of instructions, the game finally starts. This is where the next level of frustration begins, as Mario Party 8 is based around you playing a boardgame that is little more than glorified snakes and ladders and has zero skill. Playing a game of luck against a human opponent has some element of short-term fun, but against the computer, forget it. As a single-player game, Mario Party 8 is a non-starter and will bore you witless very, very quickly.
Against a human opponent the boardgames are entertaining for a while and give some genuine laughs but the lack of skill needed soon gets annoying and you find yourself yearning for the mini-games to break up the monotony. But playing a mini-game, like everything else, relies on luck, you have to just hope that a roll of the dice lands you on a square which puts you into a mini-game. When the mini-game starts, your relief from the tedium is often very short-lived as many of the mini-games are over in less than a minute, then it's back to the wretched boardgame again. Another annoying touch to the game is that there are many pre-set animations that you are forced to watch without any option of skipping them, this just adds to the frustration of the game.
But what of the mini-games themselves? Well, many are actually very good, some are horrible, but generally they're good fun and well designed. Unfortunately some mini-games have to be unlocked which can only be achieved by success on the boardgames. So if you're willing to have your patience pushed to the limit it's possible to unlock them, but you'll probably end up deciding another session on the boardgames is too much to bear.
Mario Party 8 is a huge opportunity missed. The idea of loads of simple but fun party games is a good one, but the game design does everything it can to stifle this through the constant stream of pointless information that interrupts the game, and the woeful boardgames. It would have been better to either make the boardgames more skill-based, or just get rid of them completely, and let people just play the mini-games.
- AwfulI 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
Rating:
- A dissapointing cash in (ka-ching)!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!
Rating:
- Endless fun!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!
Rating:
- I want to ask Nintendo for my money back!!!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!!!
Rating:
- Boring boardgames and an unbelievably irritating interface ruin the mini-gamesThere's one thing you need to know about Mario Party 8 before you buy it - be prepared to do a lot of reading during the game! The game has an incredibly irritating interface whereby it bombards you with constant information throughout the game which can only be cleared by pressing the A key. Consequently, you spend most of the time repeatedly pressing the A key to get rid of the constant barrage of messages. In fact before the game even starts you are forced to read through an endless parade of information boxes that end up making things more confusing and leaving you wondering when on earth this game is going to start. For a game aimed at kids as well as adults I fail to see how any child would have the patience to read through so much claptrap before the game begins, it really is that tedious.
After reading what seems like a small book worth of instructions, the game finally starts. This is where the next level of frustration begins, as Mario Party 8 is based around you playing a boardgame that is little more than glorified snakes and ladders and has zero skill. Playing a game of luck against a human opponent has some element of short-term fun, but against the computer, forget it. As a single-player game, Mario Party 8 is a non-starter and will bore you witless very, very quickly.
Against a human opponent the boardgames are entertaining for a while and give some genuine laughs but the lack of skill needed soon gets annoying and you find yourself yearning for the mini-games to break up the monotony. But playing a mini-game, like everything else, relies on luck, you have to just hope that a roll of the dice lands you on a square which puts you into a mini-game. When the mini-game starts, your relief from the tedium is often very short-lived as many of the mini-games are over in less than a minute, then it's back to the wretched boardgame again. Another annoying touch to the game is that there are many pre-set animations that you are forced to watch without any option of skipping them, this just adds to the frustration of the game.
But what of the mini-games themselves? Well, many are actually very good, some are horrible, but generally they're good fun and well designed. Unfortunately some mini-games have to be unlocked which can only be achieved by success on the boardgames. So if you're willing to have your patience pushed to the limit it's possible to unlock them, but you'll probably end up deciding another session on the boardgames is too much to bear.
Mario Party 8 is a huge opportunity missed. The idea of loads of simple but fun party games is a good one, but the game design does everything it can to stifle this through the constant stream of pointless information that interrupts the game, and the woeful boardgames. It would have been better to either make the boardgames more skill-based, or just get rid of them completely, and let people just play the mini-games.