Mario Kart 8: DLC Pack One is a racing developed by Nintendo EAD Software Development Group No.1, released 13 November 2014 on Wii U.
What Mario Kart 8: DLC Pack One is
Mario Kart 8: DLC Pack One is a racing game developed by Nintendo EAD Software Development Group No.1 and released in 2014. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Wii U only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Mario Kart 8 is a 2014 kart racing game developed and published by Nintendo for the Wii U. It retains the gameplay of previous Mario Kart games, with players controlling characters from the Mario series and other Nintendo characters in races around tracks. Tracks are themed around locales from the Super Mario series populated with power-ups that help players gain advantages in races. Different difficulties are selectable prior to a race; harder difficulties make gameplay faster. In the new anti-gravity sequences, players drive on walls and ceilings. Mario Kart 8 contains a variety of single-player and local and online multiplayer game modes, including Grand Prix racing and arena-based…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.
Where it sits in the Mario series
Mario Kart 8: DLC Pack One is the 522nd of 668 entries we hold in the Mario series. The next entry was Super Smash Bros. for Wii U in 2014. Its critic score of 85 is 8 points above the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Super Mario World at 100.
How it was received
Mario Kart 8: DLC Pack One holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 87% of the 1,168 rated racing games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 16 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Mario Kart 8: DLC Pack One launched on 13 November 2014, within three weeks of Dragon Age: Inquisition, Far Cry 4, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth and Tales from the Borderlands. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Far Cry 4, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, Tales from the Borderlands.
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