Mario is back with another party.  This time it’s at a carnival.

Like usual expect a lot of mini-games, focus on multiplayer goodness, and the bittersweet taste of almost beating your friends, but lost everything you have in one turn.

Mario Party 8 Gameplay

The gameplay to Mario Party 8 is still the same as all Mario Party games.  So if you hate the series you’ll hate this game, but if you love the series you’ll love this game.

Mario Party 8, like all of its multiplayer party game predecessors is played like a board game.  Everybody takes turn rolling their dice to make their move.

The goal of this wii game is to gather as many stars as you can and at the end of the game the person with the most stars win.  It’s up to you to do whatever you can to get the stars.

Once you picked a map the games starts and ends with a dice.  You roll the dice to decide who goes first, and who goes last.

Everybody starts with 10 coins.  You can get more by buying or getting items to steal them, winning mini-games, and stepping on blue spaces.

After every turn there is a mini-game.  There all sorts of games with all sorts of variation like 1 vs. 3, 2 vs. 2, or free for all.

Mario Party 8 Multiplayer

You don't want to touch the flames...or jump into the lava

All Mario Party games are made for 4-player fun, that’s why it’s a party game.  Mario Party 8 is no exception.

There is no Nintendo WFC in this game so you can’t go online (but come on the game would last forever anyways) but there is local multiplayer.

You can have 4 players (assuming you have 4 wiimote, gamecube controller won’t cut it).  The more people there are the more hectic things become, because people know how to scheme, blackmail, and bribe better then the CPU, sorry but it’s true.

Party Mode

Like all Mario Party games you can play on one of the boards you have.  There are 6 boards total in this game.

You get to choose to play in 6 boards in this wii game.  They each have a theme, but beware, like a board game, this party game is very dependant on luck (that’s not always true though, I won 3 times in a row once).  The boards are:

• DK’s Treetop Temple: Like the regular Mario Party boards, get coins, and then buy the stars.
• Goomba’s Booty Board Walk: Get the coins and buy the stars ‘Nuff said (enough said).
• King Boo’s Haunted Hideaway: The star is hidden in a chest somewhere.  Find it and show your friends who’s the best bounty hunter.
• Shy Guy’s Perplex Express: Get coins and give them to the person at the end of the train.
• Koopa’s Tycoon Town: Get as many coins as you can and invest in hotels.  The person who invests the most gets the hotel, and the more money invested the hotel the more the hotel is worth.

Mini Game Tent

Here in this tent you can play all of the mini games you have unlocked in many different ways.

There are 5 ways you can play with them:

• Free Play Arcade: Play any mini game you unlocked.  You get to choose.
• Crown Showdown: Be the first one to win a certain amount of mini-game before your friends to win the game!
• Flip-Out Frenzy: Play a mini game and then the winner of it get to choose an area that’ll be colored in his color in a + shape.  The game is over when all of the spaces are colored.  The winner is the one who has the most colored area.  This is the place to put your mini game winning skills to your advantage.
• Tic-Tac Toe Drop: This is a 2-player game.  Its tic-tac toe.  Whenever you win a mini game you get to choose the first spot.  First to get 3 in a row wins.  This is definitely the way to dominate people with your mini game skills.
• Test for the Best:  Like the name says, this is the ultimate way for you to show your friends that you are the best.  You have 10 tests.  You get graded by how well you do, and in the end the person with the most points is the best!

Extra Tent

Here, are more mini games for you to play.  The difference is that… well I have no clue why they are different.  More mini game = more fun for you and your friends, right?

You get the first 3 games free, but then you have to buy the last three.  How do you do that?  Well play the game, get stars, and then buy them at the fun bizarre (not that fun if you ask me).

Conclusion

Mario Party 8 is a great multiplayer party game for any group and age of people to play.  There are enough mini-games that someone can find that one game they love to play no matter how simple, or for the board lover inside of us we can all go play on the many unique boards available.

If you’re interested, I recommend you to try renting this game first at Gamefly (sometimes you just get sick and bored of the extreme chances) starting as low as $8.95 or Try For Free!

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