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When Did Mario Kart 7 Come Out

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" Race across land, air, and sea in the wildest Mario Kart game withal! "

— Nintendo.com

Mario Kart 7 [one] (previously titled Mario Kart) is a racing game for the Nintendo 3DS, and an installment in the Mario Kart serial. Developed by Nintendo EAD and Retro Studios, the latter who helped on aspects such as graphic symbol and course design [two], the game was released December one, 2011 in Japan, Dec 2 in Europe, Dec 3 in Commonwealth of australia, and December iv in North America.

It was later released as a digital download on the Nintendo eShop October four, 2012 in Europe, October 18 in Due north America, and November one in Japan. [3] [4] As of January 26, 2012, the game has sold 4.v million units globally, condign the 2nd acknowledged 3DS game. [5] [vi] [vii] [8]

The title was promoted at the 2011 Machine Testify in Los Angeles, California, where life-sized karts from the game, Mario's standard vehicle and Luigi's Bumble 5 were displayed for people to view and take photos with from Nov 18 through the 27th. [9] [10] An update for the game entitled "Mario Kart vii Version ane.1" was released on the Nintendo eShop on May 15, 2012, fixing shortcut exploits constitute in three courses (online only). The patch is required in order to play online. [xi] [12] [13] [fourteen]

Contents

  • i Gameplay
    • 1.1 Playable Characters
      • 1.i.1 Starting Characters
      • 1.1.ii Unlockable Characters
  • 2 Items
    • ii.ane Returning Items
    • ii.ii New Items
  • three Courses
    • 3.1 New Courses
    • 3.2 Retro Courses
    • 3.3 Battle Courses
  • 4 Reception
  • 5 Gallery
  • 6 Videos
  • seven References
  • 8 External Links

Gameplay

The game includes upward to eight thespian multiplayer play, both offline and online, with features similar Grand Prix, Time Trials. Coin Runners and Balloon Battles. The graphics are likewise like to Mario Kart Wii with the addition of the 3D stereoscopic capabilities, which enhance the depth while driving on racecourses. Information technology likewise brings a "agglomeration of new elements" to the series. [fifteen] Such new elements include the power to utilize air gliders, which can be useful for navigating through the air, and the ability to drive underwater. Players can as well change to commencement-person gameplay, which allows 1 to steer the kart using motility control by shifting the 3DS system.

Coins return, which have not been featured since Mario Kart: Super Excursion for Game Boy Advance. The selection to select classic Mario Kart tracks is also available once again in this game. In improver, players may at present assemble their own karts, rather than select pre-gear up karts as in older Mario Kart games. Players can now select the torso of the kart, the wheels, and other boosted accessories such as the glider. Some parts need to be unlocked before they can be used.

Mario Kart seven features sixteen new courses, only some of the by courses making a return have had the underwater sections added to them. StreetPass is used to substitution ghost data with people that you pass on the street. You lot likewise tin can utilize that data to register that person as your friend on the arrangement itself and go on to play online with them.

The new Community feature allows players to create groups with other Mario Kart fans while setting up specific rules to make customized racing environments. Easy setup allows players to chop-chop create a customs and share with others via the StreetPass™ feature. Community leaderboards will as well show the nearly up-to-engagement information from recent races. [16]

Walking by other Mario Kart 7 players in existent life with StreetPass enabled allows gamers to substitution racing scores, win/loss records, number of collected coins and other game data. With SpotPass enabled, players will be able to receive ghost data to race against. Up to 7 ghosts tin be downloaded at the aforementioned time, allowing for a full eight-player race. [17]

Playable Characters

In that location are only 17 playable characters in Mario Kart 7, short of Mario Kart Wii'south 25 playable characrers, though some downloadable content is being considered to add together more than courses and characters to the game.

Starting Characters

  • Mario
  • Luigi
  • Princess Peach
  • Yoshi
  • Bowser
  • Ass Kong
  • Toad
  • Koopa Troopa

Unlockable Characters

  • Mii (Unlocked by getting in 1st Place Trophies in all cups on any CC)
  • Daisy (Unlocked by getting 1st in the 150 CC Mushroom Loving cup)
  • Wario (Unlocked by getting 1st in the 150 CC Flower Cup)
  • Roslina (Unlocked by getting 1st in the 150 CC Star Cup)
  • Metal Mario  (Unlocked by getting 1st in 150 CC Special Cup)
  • Shy Guy (Unlocked past getting 1st in 150 CC Vanquish Cup)
  • Love Queen (Unlocked by getting 1st in 150 CC Banana Cup)
  • Wiggler (Unlocked past getting 1st in 150 CC Leafage Loving cup)
  • Lakitu (Unlocked by getting 1st in 150 CC Lightning Cup)

Items

Returning Items

  • Green Beat
  • Triple Green Beat
  • Blood-red Shell
  • Triple Red Shell
  • Spiny Shell
  • Bob-omb
  • Assistant
  • Triple Bananas
  • Blooper
  • Mushroom
  • Triple Mushrooms
  • Bullet Neb
  • Super Star
  • Lightning Bolt
  • Aureate Mushroom

New Items

  • Fire Flower
  • Super Leaf
  • Lucky 7 [eighteen]

Courses

The full list of tracks are as follows: [19] [20]

New Courses

Mushroom Cup Blossom Cup Star Cup Special Cup
Toad Circuit Wuhu Loop Piranha Plant Slide DK Jungle
Daisy Hills Mario Circuit Wario Shipyard Rosalina's Ice World
Scritch Cheep Lagoon Music Park Neo Bowser City Bowser'southward Castle
Shy Guy Baazar Rock Rock Mountain Maka Wuhu Rainbow Road

Retro Courses

Shell Loving cup Banana Cup Leaf Loving cup Lightning Cup
N64 Luigi Raceway N64 Koopa Beach N64 Kalimari Desert Wii Koopa Cape
GBA Bowser Castle 1 SNES Mario Circuit ii DS Dk Pass GCN Dino Dino Jungle
Wii Mushroom Gorge Wii Coconut mall GCN Daisy Cruiser DS Airship Fortress
DS Luigi's Mansion DS Waluigi Pinball Wii Maple Treeway SNES Rainbow Road

Boxing Courses

New Retro
Honeybee Hive GBA Boxing Course 1
Sherbet Rink N64 Big Donut

Wuhu Boondocks

DS Palm Shore

Reception

Mario Kart 7 sold betwixt 420,000 to 450,000 copies during its offset calendar week in Japan. These sales and Super Mario 3D Land's sales have impacted hardware sales too, as Nintendo reports the 3DS will presently cross three million hardware units sold in Japan and they await information technology to accomplish the four one thousand thousand marker before its one year ceremony. [21]

The game has mainly received positive reviews from video game critics.

Famitsu gave the game its first review, a 37/xl, saying "The game's fabricated then you're e'er able to phase a comeback, making it outgoing and enjoyable for anyone. Competing for fourth dimension is also exciting, and there's more than enough room for hardcore play here. The Customs characteristic makes netplay a lot more attainable than before, and finding opponents via StreetPass is also impressive. It'south actually exciting to think how the Community is going to unfold. In that location are a lot of changes here, but play it and it's definitely all the same Mario Kart. That goes to show how complete a game it'due south get. It'south accessible plenty that even new players tin can enjoy it, and when you get into information technology, you really go into it." [22]

Gameblog gave the game a 100, stating "With virtually ten years of thrilling races backside them, even the most fine-tuned racing fireballs can prove signs of fatigue. But rather than risking a break-down, Nintendo was smart plenty to dismantle its Mario Kart core formula in order to correctly refreshen each and every one of its clogs before putting them back together. As an added bonus, the mechanic repainted it nicely and added some of the latest technologies. The end upshot roars at presently as the engine starts, and promises to run nicely for quite some time cheers to solid online features." [23]

Modojo too gave it the highest score they had, reason being "Information technology's ... the greatest handheld Mario Kart yet, and a welcome addition to a astounding series." [24] Game Radar also gave it a 100, stating "Mario Kart 7 is THE game the 3DS has been in dire need of. Sadly, information technology raises the bar and then loftier for nigh everything else, most 3DS games don't even look similar they vest on the aforementioned system." [25]

Computer and Video Games gave information technology a 94, stating "As consummate a racing game equally you could hope to play. All that's good nigh the previous Karts, distilled and mixed with a trillion ideas of its own. First-class." [26] Official Nintendo Magazine gave it a 93, reason being "[It's] the best Mario Kart game yet with an online platform that'll keep you racing for years." [27]

Game Revolution, who gave information technology a 91, said "Yous've got to own this game if you lot've got a Nintendo 3DS. If y'all find a shiny new 3D handheld under the Christmas tree, don't hesitate to selection this game upwardly. Information technology'll surely evidence to suck hours and hours of your organization's diminutive battery life abroad, but in one case you plug in, you won't want to put it downwards." [28]

GamingXP gave it a xc, maxim "Afterward Super Mario 3D Land, Nintendo has another hardware seller in Mario Kart seven. While Super Mario 3D Land redefined 3D jump'n'runs, Mario Kart 7 sets besides new standards for fun and arcade racers. Mario Kart 7 offers the deepest multiplayer experience in the franchise, but that's not all. It's the cool mix of good one-time features and fresh gameplay elements, which makes the game and then cool." [29]

Cheat Code Central also gave it a xc, stating "With a good amount of unlockable content and enough of multiplayer options, this is a biggest and deepest Mario Kart experience yet." [30] Nintendo Power gave it a 90, reason beingness "Mario Kart 7 certainly delivers on that [novelty] front with some splendid track pattern, the solid controls that nosotros've come to expect from the series, and some worthwhile additions (similar added items and the ability to fly.)"

Border Magazine gave it a 90 besides, and said "Nintendo has conspicuously been experimenting with how to better exploit its system's obvious potential, and its solution is a natural, svelte implementation of 3D that complements and even improves its games, rather than feeling tacked on." [31] Joystiq called it "an exquisitely polished game with few flaws." [32]

In the "Maka Wuhu" form, there is a glitch that allows players to skip quite far alee in a race, which has gained negative backlash from the customs, as it presents an unfair reward online when racing on this course. At first, Nintendo had no plans on fixing this glitch, but on May fifteen, 2012, Nintendo released a patch for Mario Kart 7 on the Nintendo eShop entitled "Mario Kart 7 Version one.1," fixing the glitch alongside removing shortcut exploits from two other courses (applied only when racing those courses online, but however, you can nonetheless perform the shortcuts offline in Single Player mode). The update is required to play online.

Gallery

Main article: Mario Kart seven/Gallery

Videos

References

  1. ↑ http://press.nintendo.com/articles.jsp?id=30048
  2. ↑ http://nintendo3dsblog.com/hideki-konno-talks-almost-retros-involvement-with-mario-kart-7
  3. ↑ http://www.siliconera.com/2012/10/02/super-mario-3d-land-and-other-retail-3ds-games-headed-to-nintendo-eshop/
  4. ↑ http://world wide web.nintendoworldreport.com/news/31996
  5. ↑ http://www.andriasang.com/e/weblog/2011/09/xiii/nintendo_new_dates/
  6. ↑ http://www.yamihoshi.nl/tech/?p=3918
  7. ↑ http://www.gamerlive.goggle box/commodity/mario-kart-7-super-mario-land-3d-get-official-release-dates
  8. ↑ http://www.vooks.net/story-20538-Australia-gets-existent-worldwide-release-appointment-for-Mario-Kart-7.html
  9. ↑ http://nintendo3dsblog.com/nintendo-unveils-real-life-karts-from-mario-kart-7
  10. ↑ http://ds.ign.com/articles/121/1212816p1.html
  11. ↑ http://nintendoeverything.com/88505/nintendo-releases-first-game-patch-for-the-3ds-in-mario-kart-vii/
  12. ↑ http://www.gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=177276
  13. ↑ http://www.gamespot.com/news/mario-kart-7-update-kills-shortcut-exploits-6376782
  14. ↑ http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2012/05/mario_kart_7_update_available_now
  15. ↑ http://gonintendo.com/viewstory.php?id=157326
  16. ↑ http://nintendoeverything.com/76393/drive-habitation-the-fun-and-race-with-fans-around-the-globe-with-mario-kart-7-for-nintendo-3ds/
  17. ↑ http://nintendoeverything.com/76393/bulldoze-home-the-fun-and-race-with-fans-effectually-the-earth-with-mario-kart-7-for-nintendo-3ds/
  18. ↑ http://mariokart7.nintendo.com/items/
  19. ↑ http://world wide web.nintendoworldreport.com/news/28418
  20. ↑ http://ds.ign.com/articles/121/1213157p1.html
  21. ↑ http://andriasang.com/comz7n/3ds_sales/
  22. ↑ http://www.1up.com/news/japan-review-check-mario-kart
  23. ↑ http://www.gameblog.fr/test_1145_mario-kart-7-3ds
  24. ↑ http://world wide web.modojo.com/reviews/3ds/mario_kart_7/
  25. ↑ http://www.gamesradar.com/mario-kart-7-review/
  26. ↑ http://world wide web.computerandvideogames.com/327462/reviews/mario-kart-7-review/
  27. ↑ http://www.officialnintendomagazine.co.united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland/32868/mario-kart-7-review/
  28. ↑ http://www.gamerevolution.com/review/mario-kart-3ds
  29. ↑ http://www.gamingxp.com/bericht-5318-nintendo-nintendo-3ds-mario_kart_7.htm
  30. ↑ http://cheatcc.com/3ds/rev/mariokart7review.html
  31. ↑ http://www.adjacent-gen.biz/reviews/mario-kart-7-review
  32. ↑ http://world wide web.joystiq.com/2011/eleven/29/mario-kart-seven-review/

External Links

  • Official website (English)
  • Nintendo.com site
  • Official website (Japanese)

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