Mario Party 8 | 
| From: Nintendo
Category: Video Games
List Price: $49.99
Buy New: $40.99
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Rating:  135 reviews
Sales Rank: 77
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Genre: Arcade Games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Nintendo Wii
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
MPN: RVL P RM8E
UPC: 827307953279
EAN: 0045496900045
ASIN: B000LSJKAM
Release Date: May 29, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Condition: IN STOCK.BRAND NEW,SEALED.WE SHIP FAST WITH FREE DELIVERY CONFIRMATION.
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| Features:
| • | Dozens of new mini-games, six new party boards and many new game modes | | • | Extra large mini games like Star Carnival Bowling and Table Menace | | • | With motion control you'll 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 | | • | Shoot at Boos in a haunted house, drag and drop toppings in a cake-decorating competition, select the correct answers in game-show challenges | | • | Use the Wii Remote's Buttons - Jump and pummel your way through a football brawl, hop and run across a field of spinning platforms |
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From the Manufacturer
The world's most popular party videogame is getting a lot crazier in Mario Party 8 for Wii! Whether you're shaking up cola cans or lassoing barrels, you and your friends will be drawn into the action like never before using the Wii Remote. 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.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 130 more reviews...
 A Kids Review January 1, 2009
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.
 Young Kid's Favorite. December 31, 2008
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.
Seems like a cheap knock off! December 26, 2008
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!
probably a decent game for very young children December 26, 2008
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.
Very disappointing Wii debut for the series December 16, 2008
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.
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