Mario Party 8 for the Nintendo Wii is on the market and winning fans the world over. It makes sense, he does throw the sickest party. Mario Party 8 is the perfect addition to any Wii console, since the name of the game is party games, make your friends pitch in for some of the cost. 
Audience: This game truly has the potential to be one of the select few that is fun for nearly everyone. Gamers and non-gamers alike, of all ages, will find the mini-games very entertaining and the competitive boards a lot of fun! I should also note that the “audience” here is really a multi-player audience–it’s much more fun to play with other people than against a computer player.
Just like the Wii, Mario Party 8 has it’s sights set on ‘everyone’ in the living room, not just the gamers.
Graphics: ‘Cartoony,’ typical Wii graphics. The graphics are actually quite beautiful, though obviously not realistic. Very pleasing to the eye though.
Classic Nintendo!
Gameplay: Gameplay is simple and easy to get the hang of. You choose a board, everyone picks a character, and then the fun begins. Like previous Mario Party games the object is to complete some objective on each board (stars or coins or whatever) while competing in various mini-games and activities along the way.
Part of appealing to the masses, it’s all about being able to pick up the Wiimote and have fun!
Control: Even non-gamers will find the mini-games pretty easy to get the hang of. The Wii remote is put to good use here–as a lasso, a flashlight, a hammer or mallet, and many other things!
Challenge: The challenge from this game comes mostly in the form of competition from the people you’re playing against. It is what you make it, I guess. There is a single-player competitive mode as well, though I haven’t gone far enough in it to know if it becomes more difficult as it progresses.
Storyline: Well, there really isn’t one. It’s just a…well, a party. Hence the title. You do earn carnival cards and can use them to unlock new games and to buy floats for a parade. Not much more to it than that.
Overall: This is a great first Mario Party installment for the Wii. It manages to capitalize on all the Wii’s strengths–the unique controllers, the cartoon-like graphics–and should be great fun for quite some time (until Mario Party 9). And unlike some of the Wii release titles this game seems very polished.
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