The game also features more detail in courses, specifically retro tracks, which appear more redesigned than their original appearances. In addition, ATVs join the returning karts and bikes as a new class of vehicle. Elements from Mario Kart Wii and Mario Kart 7 are reused, such as 12-racer fields, Bikes and 2-Player online from Mario Kart Wii and gliding, Underwater driving, and kart customizing from Mario Kart 7. The game was released on the last three days of May 2014 worldwide.Ī prominent new addition is anti-gravity, allowing players to drive on almost any surface. Like other Nintendo 3DS and Wii U games, this game can be purchased both physically at retail and digitally through the Nintendo eShop, with the digital version requiring 4949.8 MB (approx. This installment is the follow-up game of the Nintendo 3DS title Mario Kart 7.
It is the eighth console installment in the Mario Kart series (hence the game's name). You already bought your kids a new console last year.Mario Kart 8 is a racing game developed primarily by Nintendo EAD, with Namco Bandai Holdings assisting, for the Wii U.
Update your PC: Intel has fixed Alder Lake’s biggest gaming problem Pac-Man Community is ‘Twitch Plays Pokémon’ for the iconic game If you could play any one Wii U game on the PC, what would it be? It may be a few more years before Cemu can give us a perfect representation of what Wii U games are like on the PC, but it’s coming. The Dolphin emulator that makes playing Gamecube and Wii games on the PC possible is still being developed and worked on - it was recently made playable in VR - and improved many years after its initial release. Lower-end systems have struggled to produce the same sort of playable frame rates, but as Kotaku points out, this is all a work in progress. Cemu 1.1.1 had no track or wall textures and now the game doesn’t look that different from the real deal.įor reference this was running on a PC fitted with an Intel Core-i7 4790K and a GTX 980 graphics card, so something a little more powerful than your average machine. There’s even a skybox with clouds and firework effects.Īnd look at how far this has come on in just 0.0.1 version changes. The racers are there and they move around the track pretty smoothly. The most obvious problems are all to do with lighting, but the tracks are there at a decent resolution. There’s missing effects and you need a pretty powerful rig to get it running smoothly, but hey, look at it. It’s now able to play Mario Kart 8 levels on the PC. It’s a work in progress, so don’t expect it to be perfect, but considering just two months ago the menu was barely working, the Cemu Wii U emulator is coming on in leaps and bounds. Someone actually managed to emulate Mario Kart 8 on the PC.
Well now you can and it’s the latest version of the game, too.
Or at least play at a PC desk where everything is that bit more civilized.
The age-old problem of slinging our controls at the TV when we get blue-shelled on the finish line could end, if only we could play Mario Kart 8 - one of the greatest racing games of all time - with a keyboard instead.