Mario Kart Wii supports four different control schemes. During gameplay, the player views the action from a third-person perspective that tracks the player from behind their kart.

The players control one of many selectable Mario franchise characters and participate in races or battles using go-karts or bikes on courses thematically based on locations from the Mario franchise. Mario Kart Wii is a kart racing game featuring single-player and multiplayer modes. Yoshi drifting during a race on Mario Circuit The game sold over 37 million copies, making it the second best-selling Mario Kart game after Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and one of the best-selling video games of all time. The game received positive reviews upon release, with praise for the online mode, coupled with its characters, innovative gameplay, tracks, and karts, but received criticism for its item balancing and rubber-band difficulty adjustment. Each copy of the game was bundled with the Wii Wheel accessory to augment this feature and mimic a steering wheel. Mario Kart Wii uses the Wii Remote 's motion-controls to provide intuitive and conventional steering controls. Online multiplayer was supported until the discontinuation of Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection in May 2014.

The game features multiple single-player and multiplayer game modes including two to four person split screen.

Like its previous installments, Mario Kart Wii incorporates playable characters from the Mario series, who participate in races on 32 different race tracks using specialized items to hinder opponents or gain advantages. It is the sixth installment in the Mario Kart series, and was released in April 2008. Mario Kart Wii is a kart racing game developed and published by Nintendo for the Wii.

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