Mario Kart 7

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Mario Kart 7
Composer(s)
  • Kenta Nagata
  • Satomi Terui
SeriesMario Kart
Platform(s)Nintendo 3DS
Release
  • JP: 1 December 2011
  • EU: 2 December 2011
  • AU: 3 December 2011
  • NA: 4 December 2011
Genre(s)Kart racing
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Mario Kart 7

multiplayer for up to eight players. The game was a critical and commercial success, with it going on to be the best-selling game on the Nintendo 3DS
, with over 18.98 million copies sold worldwide.

Gameplay

See also: Gameplay in the Mario Kart series
Racing in first-person is one of the new elements in this game along with hang gliding and driving underwater. The map seen in the background is Rock Rock Mountain, the fourth and last race of the Flower Cup.

Mario Kart 7 carries on traditional

Lakitu. In Mario Kart 7, however, the karts are fully submersible
thus adding fully underwater track segments.

The game features sixteen playable Mario characters, including Wiggler, Honey Queen,

Lakitu, and Metal Mario, who are new to the series, as well as Mii characters saved in the Nintendo 3DS Mii Maker, bringing the total to seventeen. Like in the previous installments, characters are divided into three different weight classes, which impact their driving styles. Mario Kart 7 introduced the ability to customize vehicles prior to races. Vehicle bodies, tires, and hang gliders can be customized with differing control attributes. Mario Kart 7 offers 32 different race tracks, which consist of 16 new tracks and 16 tracks from prior Mario Kart games.[3]

Mario Kart 7 features four

SpotPass enabled on their Nintendo 3DS, they will be able to download ghosts from other players and can race against up to seven other ghosts simultaneously.[1][5] In the Balloon Battle and Coin Runners battle games, the players drive around one of six arenas (three for this game and three from the previous installments) to collect items and attack their opponents to score points within the time limit of two minutes. The player can play online via Nintendo Network until April 2024,[6]
participating in races or battles with up to seven other players.

Development

E3 2011
, where it was announced for a late 2011 release.

Because

design perspective."[10]

The game's soundtrack was composed by both Kenta Nagata, who worked on the previous Mario Kart titles Mario Kart 64 and Mario Kart: Double Dash, and Star Fox 64 3D composer Satomi Terui.

Shortly after its release, it was discovered that three race tracks (Wuhu Island, Maka Wuhu and GBA Bowser Castle 1) had contained glitches that allowed players to skip over a significant portion of the track, often exploited as a cheat during online play. An update to fix it in online play was released in May 2012.[11][12]

Reception

Mario Kart 7 has received generally favorable reviews. It holds an 85/100 rating on Metacritic based on 60 critic reviews and an 85.17% rating on GameRankings based on 45 reviews.[13][14] IGN scored it a 9/10, praising "a handful of incredible innovations" and the game's multiplayer, particularly community features and customizable racing rules, but criticizing the small roster of only 17 characters, compared to that of Mario Kart Wii's 25 characters.[25] Computer and Video Games gave the game a 9.4/10[15] and Eurogamer gave it an 8/10.[17] Nintendo World Report gave the game an 8.5, stating that it is more of the same and the gliding mechanics feel underutilized.[27]

On the more negative side,

Jim Sterling of Destructoid gave the game a 5/10, stating that "sticking to tradition has not worked in Nintendo's favor" and saying the new glider and underwater sections "exist to provide the illusion of variety rather than actually altering the core experience".[16] Giant Bomb scored the game a 3/5, noting "your enjoyment of Mario Kart 7 will likely hinge on your continued appreciation of [the series'] formula".[24]

Accolades

IGN awarded Mario Kart 7 the IGN's Editors' Choice.[25] Mario Kart 7 was nominated for "Best 3DS Game" and "Best Driving Game" at GameTrailers' 2011 Game of the Year Awards, but lost both respectively to Super Mario 3D Land and Forza Motorsport 4.[29][30] Digital Spy awarded Mario Kart 7 the "Best Game of 2011" for the Digital Spy readers' awards of 2011.[31] Edge awarded Mario Kart 7 as the best portable game of 2011.[32] During the 15th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards, the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences nominated Mario Kart 7 for "Racing Game of the Year" and "Handheld Game of the Year".[33]

Sales

Mario Kart 7 sold 3.48 million units in the U.S. as of August 2014.

Kids Choice Awards, but lost to Just Dance 3 in the 2012 edition and Just Dance 4
in the 2013 edition.

Notes

  1. ^ Mario Kart 7 (マリオカート7, Mario Kāto Sebun)

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