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[Doc Holliday]

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Go Online, Young Man

Mario Kart's multiplayer modes offer three different forms of action: the old fashioned race, the standard pop-the-balloons battle arena, and a special survival mode in which players race to collect Shine sprites, as players with the least sprites are steadily removed from the race. These can be played both locally with the standard DS connectivity or online.

Getting online is pleasantly simple; the first time you use your copy of Mario Kart online, you're guided through a brief wizard to establish your settings (name, kart emblem). When this is complete, you're given a friend code to swap with other players for online competition. However, online action isn't strictly limited to your friends group only. You can also compete with rivals, or any available player (sorted both by region and globally).

Unfortunately, Nintendo's wi-fi setup was seriously overloaded by eager journalists clamoring to go online at the event where we tested it out. Those who did manage to connect were able to compete against hand picked players from Nintendo's New York, European, and Japanese branches -- the latter earning the distinction of being personally humbled by members of the game's development team. Still, under more reasonable circumstances (less than 100 people trying to log on to a single access point) the design should be fairly transparent.

Readers can look forward to mopping the track with Dr. Toasty (a toad who's emblem is an angry frog flipping the finger) in just a few short weeks.

 

[atomsk]

i thought only race was online?

 

[ghostmind]

So battle mode is online?

 

[Ultra Magnanimous]

Don't mind me.

 

[ThunderEmperor]

So battle mode is online?

yeah seems that way

 

[..pakbeka..]

So battle mode is online?

no

 

[Nester]

no

Mario Kart's multiplayer modes offer three different forms of action: the old fashioned race, the standard pop-the-balloons battle arena, and a special survival mode in which players race to collect Shine sprites, as players with the least sprites are steadily removed from the race. These can be played both locally with the standard DS connectivity or online.

?

 

[imastalker co.]

any word on if they're limiting the amount of playable levels online or not due to the fact that not everyone will have them unlocked?

i really hope they clear that up. more than anything though, i hope they don't pull that shit.

 

[Error]

could be a mistake by Jeremy Parish.

 

[PhoenixDark]

Mario Kart's multiplayer modes offer three different forms of action: the old fashioned race, the standard pop-the-balloons battle arena, and a special survival mode in which players race to collect Shine sprites, as players with the least sprites are steadily removed from the race. These can be played both locally with the standard DS connectivity or online.

 

[Ironclad]

" These can be played both locally with the standard DS connectivity or online."
He could have meant that some of the modes he listed above can be played locally and others can be played globally.

If it's true that battle mode is online though, that would be great news.

 

[..pakbeka..]

I love that ride

 

[Chibbi Brady]

Bloody hell, why not just come right out and say if Battle Mode is online or not. I mean, we're less than 2 weeks to go until launch and we're still in the dark. Very odd.

 

[PhoenixDark]

I love that ride

I just got off the PD0 one, and now this one looks even bigger. :lol

 

[Nester]

Well, IGN seems to contradict battle mode being online:

http://ds.ign.com/articles/664/664149p1.html

When it was working, it was nearly flawless. The Internet play is limited to simple four player racing matches, and players "vote" on which tracks to race on during the connection; the winning selection (the highest number of votes) will be the track everyone races on. The computer will choose the track from the voted list if there's a tie. Since our cartridge didn't have a friends list built, we entered a match-up race where the service would seek out and pair us up with like-skilled opponents based on the wins/losses ranking attached to our online name.

again.

 

[Leatherface]

Well, IGN seems to contradict battle mode being online:

http://ds.ign.com/articles/664/664149p1.html



again.

=(

 

[..pakbeka..]

I just got off the PD0 one, and now this one looks even bigger. :lol

I'm talking about the real Hulk roller cosater

 

[Rlan]

Any ideas on how the regions are set out, or how they work?