It looks like Nintendo's Mario Kart series will be facing a tough new challenger when KartRiderRush arrives on iPhone, iPad, iPod and Android this year.
The Korean free-to-play kart racer, originally known as Crazyracing Kartrider, is so popular in its home country that almost a third of the country's population has apparently played it, and has over 200 million registered players around the world.
Let's put this into perspective; Mario Kart DS was the sixth best-selling DS game with 20.70 million units sold worldwide as of December 2010.
Sticking to the original formula, the phone version will be free to download, with earnings being made from those dreaded in-app micro transactions that require users to pay for extra characters, tracks and items.
The game will feature four-player racing offline (no online unfortunately), both tilt and touch controls and pretty cel-shaded cartoon visuals. Oh, and powerslides, of course.
Kotaku has a bunch of screens and below is an iOS trailer.
Could Mario Kart finally have met its match?
Comments
6 comments so far...
headspin on 10 Mar '11 said:
God that music reminds me of that Halloween film with that advert that made people go nuts!!!! Trailer doesn't look that great to be honest either, I'd like to be proved wrong tho as I have an iPhone and an iPad but to be honest 95% of games are gash for both, phone is for use as phone/satnav/mobile Internet/news&weather and the pad is used for that at home on a nice sized screen, I'll always leave my gaming to my consoles... Well part from angry birds and 10 pin shuffle, can someone enlighten me as to why those 2 are so addictive please lol...
Bryanee1983 on 10 Mar '11 said:
I think I just puked up a little bit and swallowed it. That looks terrible.
boskersrevenge on 10 Mar '11 said:
*watches trailer*
*clutches head and begins to moan*
*snakes come out*
altitude2k on 10 Mar '11 said:
They couldn't be bothered to invent their own symbol for wi-fi....what a lazy language.
kirankara on 10 Mar '11 said:
Looks visually awful , and is free initially, in long run with micro transactions etc ppl will probably cost more than a ds game. I'd rather cut my own balls off than pay for this s**te
jamez-vampire on 10 Mar '11 said:
iPhone kart racer steps up to Mario Kart
and gets its ass kicked to the edge of life
before mario kart breaks ever bone in its body
and leaves it for dead with a FREE price tag XD
IPHONE GAMES DONT FALL INTO THE GAMING CATAGORIE
ARE THEY AT E3? NO ARE THEY IN THE BAFTA AWARDS? NO
THEY ARNT GAMERS GAMES THERE JUST RUBBISH
rant over ^_^