Racing when it is best.
Mario kart DS has both new courses and a great mix of old ones, so it's two times more fun. You can play all the courses with up to eight players locally and four players on WiFi.
There are totally twelve characters you can choose from and 36 different karts. There are 32 different races in 8 cups to race in.
They didn't add the 2 player on one cart thing that was on the gamecube but they did stick to the power-slide wich is a cool feature.
When you download'n'play with a friend you can choose the 2 first cups, one from the "old school" cups and one from the new.
There are almost no new attacks other than the squid which squirts ink on the other racers.
Mario kart ds offers lots of good times. When you play online it takes some time to find other racers but it's fun to race four players over the internet.
If you liked the other Mario kart games you wont be dissapointed with this one there are all the good from the other games + all the new additions.
They really manadged to get the old courses great even the gamecube courses looks nice, if gamecube could talk and have emotions it would have been proud.