"Nintendo knows that to mess with the recipe is to risk losing the magic, a lesson learned in Double Dash's shift of focus away from taut racing to whimsy. "It's the inscrutable concoction of genius. "Mario Kart is a classic formula, so often aped and never bettered," Simon Parkin wrote in our Mario Kart 7 review.
It's also a racing game every bit as encumbered by tradition and expectation, with just as singular a focus (albeit a less monomaniacal and exhaustively ambitious leading light - Shigeru Miyamoto didn't even fancy adding customisation to it). Or can you? Mario Kart 7 easily has the potential to match GT5's sales, and could be just as crucial to the future of its format, if not more. It's even got Nintendo's best stab at proper online integration to date.
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Where Gran Turismo 5 stuttered and coughed into life with a day-one patch and a hobbled online mode, turn Mario Kart 7's ignition and you get a smooth purr. But now Nintendo's run out of smug side-steps and has been pitched in with the rest.īut this is Nintendo, with its legendary quality control - and if it hadn't confessed that Mario Kart 7 was rushed to market as an emergency measure to save the 3DS, you'd never have known. Sony's not out of hot water yet - frankly, in these deeply uncertain times for gaming, no-one is. This time last year, more or less, it was Sony slipping in under the wire before we closed the books on 2010 to prop up the fortunes of one of its formats with a the rushed release of a racing game. It's hard to dispel a sense of déjà vu - and for all its charms, our game of the week isn't helping.
It's a good game, but it's also the App Store's first big-budget, bells-and-whistles annual mega-sequel. Still a game about fast and smart fight scenes bolstered by a personalised assortment of weapons and shiny hats." "For all that's new and improved, Infinity Blade 2 is still a game about high stakes combat and bloody perseverance. Sharper textures add even more detail to a world rich in tiny charms and architectural flair," Mark wrote in our Infinity Blade 2 review.
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"On the newest devices that are packing A5 chips especially, the game shines with gorgeous lighting that spills through stained glass windows and washes over open courtyards. But there's no doubt that Chair's fantasy action game is a standard-bearer for gaming on iOS and the processing power of iPad 2 and iPhone 4/4S. I'm sure Apple is a long way from regarding Infinity Blade 2 as a killer app - it began life as a way to sell middleware, not hardware, after all. Two massive format exclusives step up to make their host platforms' case for taking a spot under your Christmas tree. In terms of new releases, the home consoles have started their winter hibernation - but there's still a war to be fought in your hand this week.
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