Mario Kart: Double Dash‼

Mario Kart: Double Dash! (Japaneseマリオ カート ダブル ダッシュMario Kato! ! Daburu Dasshu; " Double Dash " can be translated as " double whammy " ) is the fourth game of the Mario Kart series.

Gameplay

The player controls with selected drivers from him occupied karts. These karts races are held at various distances. The aim is to get as First Place finish. In this case, the player items are available, which can affect the final outcome positive. The special feature of Mario Kart: Double Dash! is that the carts are manned by two drivers. A driver controls the kart, the other is responsible for the use of the items.

In Grand Prix mode, the player first selects one of four levels of difficulty, after two drivers and a kart. Not all karts can be used by all drivers. The weight class plays a major role. Heavy drivers, such as Donkey Kong, therefore, can also only for heavy riders use designed karts. For the other weight classes it behaves accordingly. With the selected drivers can then be a race series, a so-called " Cup" contest. These cups are made of four races, each with 3 rounds. After the race, points are awarded for the rank achieved. Who was at the end of the Cup achieve the highest score, wins this. In the award ceremony, the winning team receives a trophy presented will result in a new record time, the player can also enter three letters as attribution. The Gran Prix can also be played by two players. It can select this if all teams will in his own kart, or whether they want to operate in pairs a kart. In this case, a player controls the kart and the other player uses the item.

During the time trial races are run over a fixed number of rounds. The race time and lap time is measured. The best results are stored in a leaderboard. Both driver and passenger get a single set of fungus as an item.

In this mode, 2-4 players can compete gegeneinder on a selected route.

In competitive mode, multiple players can compete in three different types of competitions in different arenas against each other. There are the balloon competition, the insignia - theft and the Bob - Omb litter. When balloon race all karts are fitted with three balloons. If the kart hit by an item or you drive an obstacle, you lose one of these balloons. Winner in this competition is the player who remains the last to left with one or more balloons. When Insiginien - theft is the matter of an insignia of the sun, which were introduced in Super Mario Sunshine, to keep a certain amount of time on his kart in his possession. The players must try this remove the player who wears the insignia with them again. When Bob - Omb throw the players pelt each other with Bob - Oms. For each hit point is awarded. Who was able to get a certain amount of points first wins this competition.

Characters

Mario Kart: Double Dash! contains 20 selectable drivers after Mario Kart Wii is the second most characters in the Mario Kart series. The riders compete on teams, but also riders of different teams can be combined. The drivers have different weight classes, each driver can also draw on his own kart, with many of the carts have to be unlocked. In addition, the team can use designed only for their weight class karts, in which case the driver of the heaviest weight is crucial. If you drive, for example, with the team Donkey Kong ( heavy) and Diddy Kong (easy), so only a kart can be used, which is designed for heavy riders.

The following table shows the drivers teams dar. It always among themselves standing rider form a team. The small value in brackets (value) stands for the weight class.

Figures Toad, Toadette, Mutant Tyranha and King Boo are not initially available, but must first be unlocked.

Items & routes

In Mario Kart: Double Dash are a whole range of items available that may affect the race the player. Special feature of Mario Kart: Double Dash! is that each driver team can use special items. Each invidividuelle Spezialitem can only be used by each team. An exception are the unlockable driver Mutant Tyranha and King Boo, they can access all of the special items. In competitions balloon race insignia and theft, all drivers can use all the special items.

In Mario Kart: Double Dash! There are 16 neudesignte routes. So-called " retro - routes ", as they occur for example in Mario Kart Wii, so routes from other Mario Kart parts, which were neuaufbereitet there in Mario Kart: Double Dash! do not. In addition to the 16 Grand Prix Plug there are various competitive arenas.

Success

From Mario Kart: Double Dash! approximately 6.95 million units were sold. Thus, it is the sixth most successful game of the Mario Kart series. After Super Smash Bros. Melee, Mario Kart: Double Dash! the second most successful Nintendo GameCube game.

Even the reviews of Mario Kart: Double Dash! were consistently positive.

" Much to write does not exist on this game because there's nothing to complain about. The difficulty level is more than fair, by the many innovations out even more fun than ever before and the pure fact that there are even unlockable characters and karts, even makes the heart of every collector friend later. Mario Kart: Double Dash! continues the Mario Kart series more than succeeded, creating once again new ways to have a lot of fun and long alone or with friends. Who have already fallen, the first parts of this series, which should not only ask if he should buy this game -. A must for fans of the series, clearly "

The current rating at Game Rankings is 87.20 %, the games review website Metacritic awarded the game a Metascore of 87, the video game website Gamespot rated Mario Kart: Double Dash! with 7.9.

Development

Mario Kart: Double Dash! was first presented at the E ³ 2001. The game was developed by Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development. Producers have included Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka, as executive producer of the current Nintendo president Satoru Iwata was used. The voice of Mario, Luigi, Wario, Waluigi, Baby Mario and Baby Luigi was spoken by Charles Martinet, also to other all-star voice of Super Mario series were used. The soundtrack of Mario Kart: Double Dash! comes from the Nintendo composer Shinobu Tanaka and Kenta Nagata, who composed, among others, also the music for Mario Kart 64 and Super Mario Sunshine.