Mr eel
Mario Kart DS - First Impressions
Thankfully Nintendo haven’t made Australian customers wait too long to get Mario Kart DS. I got my copy today. Since I don’t live in the city I had a friend buy me a copy. He had to go to a couple of different stores to hunt down a copy. Apparently EB Games had sold out twice already! So obviously a super popular game at the moment.
The big sell for MKDS for me is the stupid huge amount of tracks, many taken from previous MK games, but perhaps more importantly; Wi-Fi!
I can connect my DS to my wireless router and play Mario Kart against other cats over the interwebs. Yay! It works brilliantly too. Once it’s configured, you just pick the multiplayer option. There is something really appealing about playing against other folks so far away, especially on a hand-held.
Nintendo have done a great job making it all work very smoothly, though the Wi-Fi functionality isn’t particularly ambitious. At the moment it only supports simple games. In the future I think they could support things like leader boards and competitions, perhaps post-game chats. I’m not really criticising them, better to keep it simple and get it right first, then expand on it in the future. I’m just really excited about all the other cool stuff we can do with it!
More impressions as I continue to play…
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