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| From: Nintendo
Category: Video Games
List Price: £39.99
Buy New: £29.98
You Save: £10.01 (25%)
New (8) Used (9) from £21.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  66 reviews
Sales Rank: 206
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Rating: To Be Announced
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 11 - 18 years
Operating System: Nintendo Wii
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
MPN: RVL P RM8E
UPC: 827307953279
EAN: 0045496900045
ASIN: B000LSJKAM
Release Date: August 3, 2007
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews:
 Endless fun! August 8, 2008
Well, when i first bought the wii i got a package which included this game as well, when i first started it up and began playing i was bored, i had no idea what i was doing or what the point of the game was, it went into it's boix and did not see the daylight for another few months!
I then however had some friends round, they looked through my games and wanted to play this, i told them it was rubbish bu they insisted, when we started up the game and began clicking around i realised that it actually wasn't hard to understand at all, in fact it was really simple!
There are so many games in here it is unbelievable! We spent hours playing on it and all of the mini games and the extras zone, then when they had gone home i moved onto play he adventure mode as you could call it, well it is basically playing a board game, the one on one with the computer is fun and simple and all the boards are completely different with different rules and suprises.
You can even play the board game in multiplayer, this is loads of fun and it'll have the whole room in tears, the simpleness of the idea makes it that so much more fun and enjoyable, and the best part is, no one cares if they win or loose, it really is the taking part and the having fun tha counts. Even the mini games are fun as single player.
Overall this is a great game for anyone whether it be by yourself or with friends, the music as usual is completely annoying but who cares, the graphics are good and the use of the controller on all the mini games and in the extras zone is superb and really interactive! Definite keeper, would reccomend!
 I want to ask Nintendo for my money back!!! July 27, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
i've heard good things about this game, and i don't know why!!!
The game is dreadful right form the star, the guy in the hat is annoying, there's no fun in there at all the graphics are absolutely appalling, the title screen and much of the set up appear in 14/9 but then the actual games go to 4/3 and look blocky and sluggish. i actually thought there was something wrong with the way my Tv or wii was set up and then after discovering no its just how the game is i started wondering, am i missing something here, is this game really as bad as i think it is i read through the manual and read some stuff online and tried again and came to the conclusion that this game really sucks.
after only an hour of gameplay I'm about to sell it on.
also the only reason i game this game 1 star is because amazon wont let you give it ZERO!!!
Avoid and buy something thats actually fun to play like mario kart!!!
 Boring boardgames and an unbelievably irritating interface ruin the mini-games June 15, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
There's one thing you need to know about Mario Party 8 before you buy it - be prepared to do a lot of reading during the game! The game has an incredibly irritating interface whereby it bombards you with constant information throughout the game which can only be cleared by pressing the A key. Consequently, you spend most of the time repeatedly pressing the A key to get rid of the constant barrage of messages. In fact before the game even starts you are forced to read through an endless parade of information boxes that end up making things more confusing and leaving you wondering when on earth this game is going to start. For a game aimed at kids as well as adults I fail to see how any child would have the patience to read through so much claptrap before the game begins, it really is that tedious.
After reading what seems like a small book worth of instructions, the game finally starts. This is where the next level of frustration begins, as Mario Party 8 is based around you playing a boardgame that is little more than glorified snakes and ladders and has zero skill. Playing a game of luck against a human opponent has some element of short-term fun, but against the computer, forget it. As a single-player game, Mario Party 8 is a non-starter and will bore you witless very, very quickly.
Against a human opponent the boardgames are entertaining for a while and give some genuine laughs but the lack of skill needed soon gets annoying and you find yourself yearning for the mini-games to break up the monotony. But playing a mini-game, like everything else, relies on luck, you have to just hope that a roll of the dice lands you on a square which puts you into a mini-game. When the mini-game starts, your relief from the tedium is often very short-lived as many of the mini-games are over in less than a minute, then it's back to the wretched boardgame again. Another annoying touch to the game is that there are many pre-set animations that you are forced to watch without any option of skipping them, this just adds to the frustration of the game.
But what of the mini-games themselves? Well, many are actually very good, some are horrible, but generally they're good fun and well designed. Unfortunately some mini-games have to be unlocked which can only be achieved by success on the boardgames. So if you're willing to have your patience pushed to the limit it's possible to unlock them, but you'll probably end up deciding another session on the boardgames is too much to bear.
Mario Party 8 is a huge opportunity missed. The idea of loads of simple but fun party games is a good one, but the game design does everything it can to stifle this through the constant stream of pointless information that interrupts the game, and the woeful boardgames. It would have been better to either make the boardgames more skill-based, or just get rid of them completely, and let people just play the mini-games.
 Deluxe Family Fun May 29, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This Game is ultra fun! But there is a bit of catch. This game can only be fun if you're not playing by yourself. You CAN play on you're own with three CPUs but this soon gets boring. Also there is a single player mode but is SO short you'll complete it in about a couple hours. So this game is great for family use !!
Good fun and easy to play April 16, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Mario Party is a very easy to play set of "board" games and loads of mini-games (which each take about 30 seconds to play). It is fun for children and amateur players, but far too simple for serious gamers. One player mode is fine, though I agree it is better with more. If you want an enjoyable, and easy to play, wii game then this fits the bill.
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