2009-01-01

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This game seems great at first, and is a lot of fun. Most gamers like to play the story mode first, but this games' story mode is extremely short.
I am an experienced gamer, so it toke me two and half hours, and wasn't much fun. This game is fun if four unexperienced people play, but once you play this game about ten times, it gets BORING. Another downside about this game is there is no widescreen mode. If you can buy it for under 25 or so dollars, this could be a good buy.

Yoon Suk Dam 2008-12-31

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My 5 y/o got this as part of Christmas gift along with 5~6 other games. This one is his favorite since the mini games are very simple and short. The board games are very easy to understand since it's like playin Monopoly. It's probably to easy and lame for adults or even older kids to play but for younger kids, it's perfect.

Michelle M. Atkinson 2008-12-26

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:

Mario Party 8 has lost the Mario Party feel! The boards for one are REALLY lame! You can get stars by just landing on a certain space! Any stars gotten are either gotten by chance, or landing on a certain space! The minigames ARE fun, but are VERY slow, and dont use the wii remote ability! The orbs and items are replaced with power candies! You eat them to get powers! ???????????!!!!!!!!

How you see the boards is really what throws you off, you see everything threw a close up look, not like 7 or the DS, you can only really see about 3-4 spaces away from where you are, the boards are very small to!

The charectors, the story, it's al just lame! I'm a Mario Party fan, thats the only reason you would want to play Mario Party 8!

2008-12-26

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:

there isn't anything very spectacular about this game. it's a party game. when you play against the cpu, the game cheats a lot. the only real strategy is to keep your opponents low on coins. you do this by winning the minigames. but even if you win every game, the game seems to like to "even things out" by basically giving away coins to the players who are low. this means that no matter how well you play, you can still just as easily lose. i guess that fits the party nature of the game. it isn't supposed to be a cut throat competitive game, but chances are, unless you're under 12 years of age, you aren't going to have too many friends that want to sit around playing this game. that means, for me, it needs a good single player mode to justify my owning it. unfortunately, playing the single player modes is the biggest waste of time in the world. there is absolutely no point and no reward. due to the light, fun, equality minded nature of the game, and the tendency for the cpu to roll exactly what it needs at any given time, this game is a huge bust for me. it's probably decent for little kids, but i suspect it won't take them long to get tired of being cheated either.

T. McClain 2008-12-16

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Everything that made Mario Party 7 interesting is carried over to Mario Party 8, but because Nintendo failed to add anything, it is disappointing. The Wii control abilities are not utilized particularly well, either; there's nothing in the game that requires the nunchuck or anything Wii-specific, aside from a few mini-games that require you to shake your Wii remote. Finally, for reasons I will never understand, the game itself is not in widescreen. This becomes even more bothersome when you realize that many other parts of this disc *are* in widescreen--just not the actual game play. Simply put, this is a great disappointment in an otherwise enjoyable series. Stick with Mario Party 7, and cross your fingers that Nintendo gets it right with the inevitable Mario Party 9.