New Mario Kart Double Dash Footage

StrikerObi writes "Planet GameCube has posted the first ever footage of Mario Kart Double Dash for the GameCube. It was recorded earlier off of the CNN Headline News television network. The game now has 2 characters riding on each kart, with one driving and the other using weapons. There is also some footage of the new F-Zero GX game in the reel." There's also a torrent file available from the fine folks at GameTab.

Comments

Finally

[Isbiten]

I just hope that they introduce something new that can be ripped off by like a million cart games :) Remeber after they released Super Mario Kart? That's right there were like a gazillion games using the same gameplay but Mario Kart will always be the best :)

Am I the only one...

[Anonymous Coward]

Am I the only one that thinks this looks crappy?

I loved Mario Kart and Mario Kart 64. The only thing I didn't like was not being able to play as Yoshi if I wanted to actually WIN a race, because Bowser, Donkey Kong, and Wario were the fastest.

Now all the cars look really stupid and the screen is cluttered with twice as many characters and more icons than ever.

I don't mind racing as baby mario. But I do mind racing around a track at 60mph in a baby carraige which looks like it would have no traction and a high center of gravity.

Mario Kart's phyiscs felt right. You can't make the physics feel right if the karts are obviously violating proper physics though because they don't tip over when going around corners with such a high center of gravity!

Besides the cars just look stupid. I mean is it really that clever or cool to make Donkey Kong's car look like a barrel? No. That is stupid. As is making Bowser's car this huge ass six wheeled vehicle. And why are the tires on almost all the cars so thin? They don't look right.

This is Mario KART, not Mario ride around in whatever vehicle suits you.

And I don't want Yoshi paired up with that STUPID Birdo character! UGH! Way to ruin Yoshi. Yoshi comes in six colors, why not just pair him up with ANOTHER YOSHI?

I am not looking forward to this. It looks like it's going the same direction as stupid Diddy Kong Racing which was crap.

'Bout time

[DudemanX]

My buds and I have worn our N64 controllers to nubs playing Mario Kart. I was greatly dissapointed when Mario Kart wasn't a GCN release title. There's no finer waste of time than taking bong rips and destroying your friends with red turtle shells. I'm a little wary of the new element of two characters per kart, but knowing Nintendo's track record with great gameplay I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. Once I have this and Mario Tennis in my GCN library I will finally be able toss out the ol' N64(unless someone knows where I can still get brand new Nintendo-made controllers).

Re:Just great...

[dalamcd]

You mean besides them wanting to watch the video?

There is a DivX format file on the same page (without the Zero-G footage). And DivX is available for ~all platforms.

2.) The WM Player may be a little on the 'blech' side, but arguably most players are. Real Media? Yuck. Quicktime? Yuck. DivX Playa? Yuck. Heck, just fire up MS's v6 Media Player. It's a great little player and it still plays WM9 formats if you have the codecs.

That's your opinion. The WM Player on the Mac (what I use) is terrible.
Quicktime (for Sorensen stuff) is fine on the Mac, and Video Lan Client and MPlayer are both very good for DivX and pretty much anything else.
WM Player on Mac is still in a beta, hasn't been updated in probably six months, looks terrible, and runs very slowly even for small, low-quality movies.

I don't see what you're complaining about. I can understand Mac users or Linux users being annoyed, but then again intelligent gamers mainly run Windows anyway.

Yes, because using Windows is obviously the 'intelligent' choice when talking about a console game.

dalamcd