Mario Kart World, Switch and Nintendo
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It’s great fun and really leans into the frantic nature of Mario Kart, hurling items to get any kind of purchase on the pecking order. I did find Knockout Tour to be particularly frantic, often bouncing back and forth constantly between the front and back of the pack. But that’s Mario Kart - that’s exactly what you’re signing up for.
Some other tracks you can expect to see in this new Mario Kart entry include Mario Bros. Circuit, Shy Guy Bazaar, Wario Stadium, and Peach Stadium. We've also got some others listed in our guide here on Nintendo Life, which we'll be updating as more is revealed about World. Fans also seem to be quickly piecing together the entire map.
The Nintendo Switch 2 Direct provided a bounty of knowledge regarding the new console from Nintendo, including a first look at some Nintendo Switch 2 games coming – one being Mario Kart World, the iconic racing game series' first-ever open-world entry.
Mario Kart World, the ninth installment in the Mario Kart series, will be one of the launch titles for Nintendo Switch 2.
After the Grand Prix, Nintendo showed the Free Roam mode. Players can effectively drive across the entire world however they please, which, more than anything, shows the genius of Nintendo's level design that not only do the courses work individually, but they blend together into a continuous world too.
One of Mario Kart World 's newest tracks rewinds the clocks and essentially remakes Donkey Kong's arcade game origins with parkour (carkour?) furious enough to make Titanfall 2 fans swoon.