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Mario Party 8 | 
| From: Nintendo
Category: Video Games
List Price: $49.99
Buy Used: $29.49
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Rating:  189 reviews
Sales Rank: 149
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Genre: Arcade Games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
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: RVLPRM8E
UPC: 827307953279
EAN: 0827307953279
ASIN: B000LSJKAM
Publication Date: May 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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| Editorial Reviews:
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:
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buying online March 6, 2010
Michelle Childs (CLEVELAND, OHIO, US)
bought this gamefor my grandson to play on his wii it was used but it worked like it was new he hasn't stopped playing with it i use amazon when ever possible amazon has made me a proud coustomer thanks amazon.
 Great for Little Ones March 1, 2010
The one and only
This game is a lot of fun for kids and adults. The minigames can become repetitive for the grown-ups, but the little ones will love it. You can even handicap the settings to give the youngest a fighting chance against the older kids. This game has has proven to be the most popular of the 15 or 20 Wii games we have purchased since owning the system!!
Great family game! February 3, 2010
Sandra Gregg
This is a great game for all ages, as for all Mario party games. I was a little skeptical about buying it at first, because MP 7 was a somewhat of a let down. All in all it is pretty good.
A must-have game for families and friends! January 15, 2010
Melissa Williams (Arizona)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This game is the most fun when played 4 player, but you can also play with 1, 2 or 3 players. It's like a board game, with a bunch of mini games thrown in the mix. There are six different boards (if you unlock them all, which is easy enough to do) and tons of mini games (with more you can unlock) so you don't get bored with the game too fast. Playing 2 player, some of the boards have slightly different rules than when you play 4 player. This also adds to the variety a bit.
The wide variety of mini games ensures that everyone has an equal chance of winning. Each player will be better at some mini games, and really struggle with others. So when it's randomly selecting the mini game, everyone is yelling at the TV which mini game they hope it lands on. Some of the mini games are every man for himself, some are 2 vs 2, some are 1 vs 3 and it will randomly select who is on what team, which also keeps things interesting. It provides a very level playing field for most players. Some mini games are point and click, while other mini games require you to hold the wiimote like an old school Nintendo controller. Some take advantage of the tilt sensor inside the controller. In the beginning, no one has any idea what's going on in these mini games, everyone is just fumbling their way through, which is amusing. Over time you will get skilled at certain mini games and come to hate others.
The first week we had it, I went through on single player and got everything unlocked so we could play all the levels, with all the mini games and the full selection of characters. I always play as dry bones. Each character says things (or sound effects if they don't talk), which is cute. "I'ma Wario, I'ma gonna win!" and stuff like that. When it's your turn, your wiimote makes a noise. So if you're in the other room when your turn comes up, you know you need to hurry up and get back to the game. This is the game we always play when friends and family visit. This is fun for a very wide range of ages. We and our friends are in the 26-36 age range. My mom, kid sister, step daughter, aunts and uncles, step parents, we all think this game is fun. If you are old enough to play video games, you can play this game just fine. Being old enough to read is helpful, since all the mini games give you instructions on how to play them. But even if your kid can't read, he might still be able to figure out the mini games through trial and error, the same way any kid figures out a video game quickly.
 "Is it OVER yet?" January 9, 2010
Benjamen J. Bennett (Ohio, USA)
This is the first Mario party game of the franchise that I have played. I have not played console games since about 1997 during the N64 era. I have played PC games since that time.
The very first thing I notice about this game are the horrible graphics. This game looks horrible on a wide screen TV. This would normally have more of an impact on a game's score but as someone pointed out, this game isn't about graphics. It is somewhat of a strain to see, though, in some of the mini games. (Some of this blame falls on the Wii itself for having analogue, low res graphics... if you own a flat panel TV, which I'm betting most of you do, you'll be disappointed.)
The sound is....lacking. I expect nothing less than full speech, not just the welcome line. For $50, I want voice acting and I want very good voice acting. If we're forced to proceed through every single line of dialogue, anyway, there should be narration. Which brings me to my next complaint.
This game is painfully slow. I don't want cut scenes to start playing that I've seen a million times. I don't want to have to click through several paragraphs of text I've seen a million times. A better "skip" system needs to be in place. I've never been to a party that has had a pace THIS painfully slow.
The programming algorithms are painfully predictable. You can turn it into a drinking game... for instance, predict what will happen on every turn. Simply pick the worst possible roll for you or the best possible roll for the CPU and you'll be the only one sober at the end of the game. I am able to predict for 4 straight rounds now 100% of the roll outcomes. Randomisation and AI are simply not in this game at all. This ruins the game when not playing 4 human players.
Some of the mini games are actually fun. Some are so predictable, you wish they had a skip button to just automatically default to the player who will win already, why waste 30 seconds of my life?
The fact that you can't rent this on a Friday night, invite your friends over and start playing is indeed EXTREMELY annoying. I want to jump right to the mini-games without all the accompanying BS that comes with unlocking this stuff. If I wanted to play a quirky board game, I'd pick up a box of The Game of LIFE instead.
I had high hopes for this game and indeed picked it up on a Friday night for my family to play. Before long, we were all bored and asked "Is it OVER yet?"
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