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General information Platform: Nintendo Wii Developed by Hudson Soft Published by Nintendo Players: 1-4 |
GAME INFORMATION
Overview / Mini-Game List
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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
Mario Party 8 features seventy-three Mini-Games comprising; nine 1-vs-3 mini games, ten 2-vs-2 mini games, eighteen 4-player mini games, twenty seven duel mini games, five battle mini games, three challenge mini games, one final mini game and finally eight extra mini games which can only be found in the extras zone.
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1-vs-3 Mini Games Joint Objectives Grabbin' Gold Picture Perfect
Defeating the Trio Chump Rope Swervin' Skies Snow Way Out
Defeating the Soloist Bob-ombs Away Gun the Runner
2-vs-2 Mini Games Bumper Balloons Lean, Mean Ravine Sugar Rush Winner or Dinner (coin collecting minigame) Rowed to Victory Grabby Gridiron King of the Thrill Paint Misbehavin' Boo-ting Gallery Different Controls Crops and Robbers
Battle Mini Games Aim of the Game Cut from the Team Glacial Meltdown Saucer Swarm Snipe for the Picking
Challenge Mini Games Fruit Picker Pour to Score Stampede
Final / Bowser Mini Game Superstar Showdown
Extra Mini Games Single player Chomping Frenzy
One or two player Table Menace Trial by Tile Puzzle Pillars Flagging Rights Canyon Cruisers Moped Mayhem One, two, three, or four player minigame Star Carnival Bowling |
4 Player Mini Games
Alpine Assault At the Chomp Wash Crank to Rank Flip the Chimp In the Nick of Time Kartastrophe Lava or Leave 'Em Mario Matrix Mosh-Pit Playroom Punch-a-Bunch Rudder Madness Scooter Pursuit Shake It Up Sick and Twisted Speedy Graffiti Swing Kings Treacherous Tightrope Water Ski Spree (coin collecting minigame)
Duel Mini-Games Aim of the Game Attention Grabber Balancing Act Blazing Lassos Breakneck Building Bumper Balloons Cardiators Cosmic Slalom Eyebrawl Flip the Chimp Frozen Assets Ion the Prize Lava Lobbers Lob to Rob Loco Motives Paint Misbehavin' Pumper Cars Rotation Station Saucer Swarm Settle it in Court Shake It Up Specter Inspector Sugar Rush Surf's Way Up Swing Kings Wing and a Scare You're the Bob-omb |
Mario Party 8 official commercial / advert
Interesting Facts
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Your Mii characters can be integrated into the Party games!
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Something for everyone... this is the first Mario Party game to have the full set of game type options, from 4 player games, battles, duels, 2v2 duels etc
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Koopa Kid aka Mini Bowser is omitted from the game for the first time in the Mario Party series.
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Unlockable characters in story mode for only the second time in the Mario Party series
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This game took a lot longer to develop than its predecessors, I'd be running out of ideas 8 titles in too.
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The Star Rod item, last seen in Paper Mario returns in Mario Party 8
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