Mario Party 8

• Wii Remote Controller
• Wii Nunchuk Controller
• Super Mario Galaxy
• Wii Play with Wii Remote
• Wii Charge Station

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.

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

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

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 orbs and items are replaced with power candies. The boards for one are REALLY lame. Any stars gotten are either gotten by chance, or landing on a certain space. You can get stars by just landing on a certain space.

Mario Party 8 has lost the Mario Party feel. I'm a Mario Party fan, thats the only reason you would want to play Mario Party 8. The minigames ARE fun, but are VERY slow, and dont use the wii remote ability. The charectors, the story, it's al just lame.

this means that no matter how well you play, you can still just as easily lose. unfortunately, playing the single player modes is the biggest waste of time in the world. you do this by winning the minigames. when you play against the cpu, the game cheats a lot.

that means, for me, it needs a good single player mode to justify my owning it. it's a party 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. the only real strategy is to keep your opponents low on coins. there is absolutely no point and no reward.

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. there isn't anything very spectacular about this game. it's probably decent for little kids, but i suspect it won't take them long to get tired of being cheated either. i guess that fits the party nature of the game. 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.

This becomes even more bothersome when you realize that many other parts of this disc *are* in widescreen--just not the actual game play. 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. Everything that made Mario Party 7 interesting is carried over to Mario Party 8, but because Nintendo failed to add anything, it is disappointing. Simply put, this is a great disappointment in an otherwise enjoyable series. Finally, for reasons I will never understand, the game itself is not in widescreen. Stick with Mario Party 7, and cross your fingers that Nintendo gets it right with the inevitable Mario Party 9.