Party Video Games on Nintendo Wii: Mario Party 8

Jan 29th, 2009

Mario Party 8 is one of the latest party video games for Nintendo Wii console. It is the 11th game in the Mario Party series. The game was released on May 29, 2007 in North America and on June 22, 2007 in the European Union. In UK it was released on July 13, 2007 but then was recalled and later re-released on August 3, 2007. Australia saw its release on July 19, 2007 and Japan, on July 26, 2007.

The game is designed to be played by four players playing four different characters. If the players are less than four, the computer can take over this role on its shoulders defined by the difficulty level and the handicap it is going to play at/with. The dice is rolled and the players move on the game board trying to collect as many stars as they can.

Toward the end of the game, the stars are replaced with coins to be used as a tiebreaker. You can also trade coins for stars at certain locations like in hotels that award stars only if you are making the highest current investment. The player with the maximum number of stars becomes the winner.

There are also some random elements like Shy Guy's Perplex Express, which can reorder the game board through reordering its train cars making them up in case you land up on a certain location. It can just change the entire scenario of the relative positions of all players as they were till the moment of change!

You can also surpass the game board altogether and play as many minigames as you feel like playing, adding their winnings up to the final victory in the game overall. There are eight of them in all named 4 player free-for-all, 1 vs. 3, 2 vs. 2, Battle, Duel, Challenge, Extra, and Last.

Mario Party 8 has been a real big hit in the genre of party video games on Nintendo Wii and is one of the bestselling games in the international markets at the moment.