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| From: Nintendo
Category: Video Games
List Price: $49.99
Buy New: $34.99
You Save: $15.00 (30%)
New (44) Used (27) from $29.00
Rating:  167 reviews
Sales Rank: 119
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Genre: Arcade Games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Nintendo Wii
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: RVL P RM8E
UPC: 827307953279
EAN: 0827307953279
ASIN: B000LSJKAM
Release Date: May 29, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Dozens of new mini-games, six new party boards and many new game modes | | • | Extra large mini games like Star Carnival Bowling and Table Menace | | • | With motion control you'll row your way through a river race, punch a statue to pieces, steer race cars, mopeds and go-karts, handle a balancing pole while walking a tightrope | | • | Shoot at Boos in a haunted house, drag and drop toppings in a cake-decorating competition, select the correct answers in game-show challenges | | • | Use the Wii Remote's Buttons - Jump and pummel your way through a football brawl, hop and run across a field of spinning platforms |
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From the Manufacturer
The world's most popular party videogame is getting a lot crazier in Mario Party 8 for Wii! Whether you're shaking up cola cans or lassoing barrels, you and your friends will be drawn into the action like never before using the Wii Remote. All-new ways to play: - Play with motion control: Row your way through a river race, Punch a statue to pieces, Steer race cars, mopeds, and go-karts, Handle a balancing pole while walking a tightrope.
- Play using the Pointer: Shoot at Boos in a haunted house, Drag and drop toppings in a cake-decorating competition, Select the correct answers in game-show challenges.
- Play using the Wii Remote's buttons: Jump and pummel your way through a football brawl, Hop and run across a field of spinning platforms.
All-new features/boards: Mario Party 8 for Wii also includes dozens of new mini-games, six new party boards, and many new game modes. In a series first, players can transform their characters into many forms, such as player-smashing boulders and coin-sucking vampires. Mario Party 8 also includes "extra-large" mini-games like Star Carnival Bowling and Table Menace. One to four players can play Mario Party 8 for Wii, each with a Wii Remote.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 162 more reviews...
 Not as good as it could have been. July 4, 2009
Gina Gilliam (Goose Creek, South Carolina)
This was one of the first games I got for my Wii b/c I loved Mario Party 5 so much that I assumed this one would be as good if not better. And I was very disappointed.
A lot of changes were made that I did not like and the mini games were just not that good. They were definitely not what I was expecting for the first Mario Party for the Wii and really could have been a lot better. They were extremely easy to the point of being boring; even the Bowser level in the "battle mode"- That was disappointingly easy.
A friend recommended Rayman's Raving Rabbids and I absolutely love those games. If/when Nintendo comes out with their next Mario Party I will rent it before buying it.
 A keeper for sure - great group game. June 19, 2009
H. Rivers (Cambridge, MA USA)
I'm not a lifelong gamer - the Wii is the first gaming system I've ever owned and I have a 6 year old and a 9 year old son. So I don't know about the long history of Mario games - I've certainly heard of Mario, but the Mario franchise is new to me. So I was a little nervous buying into the game - would I have to know all sorts of back story to play it? No, not a bit.
The game format is simple. Up to four players (living or computer) can play a board game in which you roll dice (the Wii remote), move around a board and play little 1 minute mini games to earn prizes. The goal is usually to collect Stars but how you do that changes from game to game. Games can last for 10-50 turns (a typical 10 turn game is about 30 minutes), and players can be handicapped (so I can let the kids start out with two extra stars and then play as well as I want to, as I try to beat them).
The mini games are pretty fun - everyone has their favorites and everyone has games that they hate. The mini games get picked at random, so you never know what you'll get. One thing I love is that you can practice a game before you play it for real. So when friends come over, they have a chance to see how the game is played before jumping in and getting their butts kicked by my kids (who have played many times). It's a great leveling field. The games are also designed to have a fair bit of randomness in them (a few of the games are completely luck). While there's skill, you can still see that luck plays a role and when you've got a 40-year old vs. a 6-year old that's a really good thing.
The game boards feature different game goals and scenes. The boys like the variety: ghosts in a spooky house, dolphins on the beachside, a space station. And you can make the computer players as smart or as dumb as you want, so there's a lot of room to create a game that everyone will enjoy. Also, while it's really great as a group game you can play alone - my 6 year old likes to practice by himself and will give himself a smart computer partner so that he can kick butt.
We've really enjoyed it and I've purchased it as a gift, too. I wouldn't hesitate to buy it again - it's a keeper.
 Multi player good...game bad June 8, 2009
K. Tutor (Tampa, FL)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
We did not like this version as much as some of the older Mario parties.
Fun for young and old! June 2, 2009
Natalie Holmes-Buttner (Ft Drum)
I like this game a lot.It can be played with several people.We play it when we have family game night.My 6 year old loves it
Girls can't put it down. June 2, 2009
C. Henderson (LA, CA USA)
I picked up Mario Party for my family and I to play a video board game together. Little did I know my Wife, her stepdaughter, and our daughter would go nuts playing it over and over. This really is a family game, but I feel like girls will like it more than guys. We still play it over 3 weeks later and we're now trying to unlock everything in the bazaar. If you're a first-time Wiier, and you have a family with at least 50% girls in it, get this game. You will get them into it just as much as I did with my family. The only downside is it can get monotonous and strategy is pretty minimal, but the minigames break the monotony just enough to keep it fun.
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