Mario Kart World takes Nintendo into another open world | hands-on gameplay

Nintendo is betting that gamers will believe that Mario Kart World will be worth playing on the new Nintendo Switch 2. But it may be hard to convince them to put their money down for an $80 game and a $450 game console. Those prices were probably impacted by Trump’s tariffs, but they represent a big hurdle for players. So is the Mario Kart World worth it? For sure, it represents a generational change in improvement over Mario Kart 8, which has been showing its age. The Switch 2 Mario Kart Open World game, which I got to play a few times yesterday, is certainly impressive. The title has up to 24 human drivers speeding around a track. In my first game, I forgot how to drive with the Joy-Con controllers and came in 24th. But by the fourth time I played, I was able to win the top score. The game brought out my competitive juices and I made a conscious effort to concentrate and get better. One of the cool things about the game is that the world is more believable as the map is contiguous ... Read full article.