Mario Kart Double Dash - Please enlighten me

[Wario]

I thoroughly enjoyed Bomb battle on Block city on the Gamecube, a great game. especially 4p

[biddenden_sue]

The Bo-bomb battles were wonderful - I really enjoyed them more than any other battles on other versions. Shines I could never get into, and balloons just seemed lame, but piling up 4 or 5 bo-bombs on each character then launching them at your enemies en-masse was pure genius!!!

[Thendakor]

Yeah that battle type was great. It was funny how all those bob-ombs were balanced in one huge stack for each driver.

[TheKing]

I have to say that the 4 player races on Mario Kart 64 and Double Dash made it for me. There is and will always be a limit to Mario Kart's potential in 1 player mode. Having said that the multiplayer on MK64 & DD more than made up for this. In fact such was the longetivity of the lifespan of MK64, that it was probably my most played game from when I bought it in the Spring/Summer of 1999 until 2002 when I left university! DD was equally popular when I went back to uni in 2005/06. =)

Personally for me, I have no preference. Each MK is different and with it's own unique challenges at multiplayer level. =)

[sherlockisback]

Originally Posted by biddenden_sue

The Bo-bomb battlkes were wonderful - I really enjoyed them more than any other battles on other versions. Shines I could never get into, and balloons just seemed lame, but piling up 4 or 5 bo-bombs on each character then launching them at your enemies en-masse was pure genius!!!

I second that. Especially as Mario would say what I believe was "prepare to die" as he hurled some bombs toward an opponent. Classic hilarity.

[burnout2006]

Double Dash was awesome imo Apparently 2 person karts was a poor idea, when actually it worked really well for the game, teaming up characters to make the most of specials (Hated the chain chomp always let go on a corner)

Played SNES Super Mario Kart on ZSNES emulator and it was actually technically
brilliant as far as the games in those days go (Less annoying items) powersliding was weird though

[Hardcastle]

Doubledash, in my opinion is the best out of the lot. For multiplayer with mates/family it is unbeatable. Much more fun than Mariokart wii locally.

It's probably the only game that ever got played on my Gamecube;awesome game.

[biddenden_sue]

It's funny. The original question was why do people say DD was rubbish.

Erm, so where's the answers? We all seem to love it!

[skyman747]

By skimming IGN it seems like these are the main points.

• Only a graphical update from 64
• Item Imbalances
• Axed Mechanics like Hop
• 2 Item buttons?

The problem is the same as all series. They only compare it to it's prequels rather than as a individual game.

[ianwynneuk]

I agree too! My favorite game on the cube!
This was my favorite mario kart game and I have had them all since the SNES!

Ian