Mario Kart World takes the racing series open-world, and it launches day one exclusively on Switch 2

Mario Kart World
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Among today's 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Nintendo Switch 2 news, Nintendo officially lifted the veil on the Mario Kart game, properly titled 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Mario Kart World, which will be exclusive to Switch 2 and l👍aunching on the same day as the console itself. Mos🍬t notably, the game features a partially open-world structure that links tracks together and lets you "drive virtually everywhere."

The trailer opens with a lot of familiar power-ups and transforming kart styles, spiced up with 24 racers on a single track and vehicles transforming into jet skis, ♏snowmobiles, and planes. A traditional grand prix mode links four tracks together with an ultimate winner crowned on points for an old-school Mario Kart experience.

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But the difference here is that everything's connected in a big, open world, letting you go off-course and explore the spaces between the tracks. There's a full free roam mode, too, and a day-night cycle and inclement weath🦩er conditions to keep things varied as you drive around.

No word on whether the fan-favorite battle mode will retu𒉰rn, but there is a new mode called Knockout Tour, where you race across the world hitting checkpoints along the way, with each checkpoint cutting out a number of racers at the back of the pack. You could call it a battle royale mode, but elimination modes certainly aren't unheard of in other racing games.

The game will support up to four players on a single system and yes, of course, Nintendo will be selling a separate wheel accessory to plug your Joy-Con into for that Wii-era motion control nostalgia. The game will, of course, also support online play, with support for the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:newly announced GameChat features.

Mario Kart World launches June 5, the same day as Switch 2 itself. More info on the game will come with a 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:special Direct pre♊sentation on A💙pril 17.

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Dustin Bailey
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Dustin Bailey joined the GamesRadar team as a Staff Writer in May 2022, and is currently based in Missouri. He's been covering games (with occasional dalliances in the worlds of anime and pro wrestling) since 2015, first as a freelancer, then as a news writer at PCGamesN for nearly five years. His love for games was sparked somewhere between Metal Gear Solid 2 and Knights of the Old Republic, and these days you can usually find him splitting his entertainment time between retro gaming, the latest big action-adventure title, or a long haul in ♏American Truck Simulator.

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