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DA BEST!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: May 10, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is WAYYYYYYY WAYYYYY WAYYYYYYYY BETTER AND COOLER THAN MARIO KART 64! This game has an amazing adventure mode. Unlike Mario Kart you have to find balloons and look for the races. With Mario Kart it is just plain ordianary racing. The multiplayer in Diddy Kong Racing is Great esspecially the ice one. When I rented the game I almost bought it. But the 5 days I did rent it It was SPECTACULAR! If you like racing games GET THIS ONE! TODAY! One more thing. THERE ARE 2 hidden characters and a 2nd adventure mode which makes this game A WINNER!

A little too repetive but fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: November 25, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I gave this game 4 stars only because it gets a bit repetive other than that this game is fantastic.Its cool how they combined adventure and racing into one game.It has many courses where you are either a car,hoovercraft, or an airplane!I highly recommend this game.

Is it better than Mario Kart?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: January 05, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The first question hovering over Diddy Kong Racing is: is it better than Mario Kart? Well yes and no. Mario Kart was virtually useless for any single player; Diddy Kong has a superb single player mode that will keep you busy for months. However, Diddy Kong is let down by a less successful multi-player mode. It's hard to pinpoint why this is so but all I know is that if I have a few friends around for a game, it is Mario that fits into the console.

Perhaps it is because Mario had more original power-ups. In Diddy Kong, you get different strength speed ups or different strength fire-meters. It is below-par when compared to Mario's lightning, star-boost, turbos, etc. power-ups.

The strength of Diddy-Kong is with its triumphant single-player. Sure, the arguments about its repetitiveness are correct but the courses that you have to repeat are spectacular. You fly, hover, or drive through the courses but the pinnacle of the game comes when you have to face the bosses. They're not easy, but they're not overly difficult. In fact, the game-makers hit got the difficult setting just right.

To be fair, I got sick of the game after I thought I finished only to find myself up in space. I can only take so many anti-climaxes before my interest collapses. Otherwise, though the game did keep me occupied and I was glad that I purchased it. Another winner for Nintendo.

Diddy Kong Rules!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: February 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is the best racing game Nintendo ever made! If you liked DK64, and BanjoKazooie, and Mario Kart64 this game's for you! It's racing, bosses, and an adventure all in one! You can't beat this racing game, ever. I gurantee you'll be satisfied, plus the graphics are amazing!!!

Not Too Shabby

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: October 14, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This was my very first Nintendo 64 game. When I first played it, I loved every second of it. I couldn't wait to get to the next level and discover the secrets hidden inside the game. Once I finally got to the first boss (Wizpig), I totally lost, and I did the next time, and the next and so on and so forth. I never did beat him until 3 years later!! But, throughout my time practicing and changing the characters, and using the shortcuts, I found many other ways to entertain myself with the game. It's fun to try out new things, especially with a game like this. There is no time limit, and you get to beat your own scores! But, after awhile, this game can get a bit boring. It's hard, because once you learn the tracks by heart, and know where the perfect shortcuts are, and what character to use, you beat the levels all the time. Although you can challenge yourself to beat the high scores by the computer, you still get bored. Once you finally beat Wizpig the second time, you open up Adventure Two, and it is exactly the same as the first time around, but the tracks are mirror images of the first ones, and the coins are in different places, AND the other racers are almost impossible to beat! It's really hard, and after stressing over it for almost 3 monthes, I still couldn't get passed the first world, and when something like that happens, you get frustrated and then you totally hate the game. So, this game might be best just to rent, because its only racing, you never leave your vehicle, and it can either be too easy, or too hard, but never in between.

Bad Multiplayer

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 15
Date: January 28, 2000
Author: Amazon User

As I am a big fan of Mario Kart, I was excited to hear about the release of this game, however, after renting it I was disappointed to find it so unapplealing. I purchase Nintendo 64 games to play with my friends, and the mutliplayer on this game is very poor. It lacks any decent for of "Battle Mode," which is the selling point for Mario Kart. The graphics, theme and sound are all very cutesy, geared for children, which didn't fly to well with me. That aside the Racing portion of the game is highly interesting. Having the option between driving a plane, hovercraft and car is fun. The adventure seems well done. However, there is nothing that caught my interest for more than 5 minutes. Renting it for 5 days was more than enough play time for me.

Diddy Kong Racing

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Diddy Kong Racing is the other major kart racer for the Nintendo 64. When it came out, most people were accusing Rare of copying the Mario Kart 64 formula. That may be true, but at least they made modification. For example, there is a major decrease in emphasis on items in Diddy Kong Racing. In Mario Kart 64, you need a good hold on the items to win. In Diddy Kong Racing, items are merely an afterthought. What are really important are the boosters strewn all around the levels. This creates a different racing feel that some people may like more than others. I personally feel that the karts are not as agile as they are in Mario Kart 64, and that decreases my enjoyment of the game. Ah well. The inclusion of two extra vehicle types adds a different feel to the gameplay. I didn't really like the plane, but hovercrafts rule! In a racing game, level design is just as important as the controls. The courses are nice, but a bit lacking in variety. Oh well. It was obviously a way to fit in with the five different sections in the single player mode. Gawd...the single player mode...the Silver Coin Challenges are no fair, I tell you!

As the game is less focused on the items, the battle modes are a bit drawn-out and boring. However, Fire Mountain and Smokey Castle are brilliant. In Fire Mountain, your goal is to take eggs to your nest and make sure they hatch. The game becomes frantic with the addition of the ability to steal your opponents' eggs. In Smokey Castle, you must take 10 bananas (2 at a time) to your respectable treasure chest. It's not as awesome as Fire Mountain, but it's fun just the same. Graphics are actually decent for 1997. It may not be as visually stunning as what Rare would achieve in half a year with Banjo-Kazooie, but the game looks nice nonetheless. Most early Rare games have lousy backgrounds, but DKR's backgrounds are impressive. The music is terribly catchy, and the voice samples are cute. The Silver Coin Challenge is still unfair.

THE MULTI-PLAYER RACING GAME

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: April 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game came out years ago, and since its creation there have been many copy-cats. But no game has ever surpassed it in its genre (multi-player racing games). Wanna know why?

First there is the single-player mode. I must say that for a children's game the adventure mode is remarkably challenging. But if you want to play all of the levels, (and certainly if you want to unlock all the hidden characters) you'll have to play through it. The challenges are interesting (if a bit repetitive and possibly even annoying). But once you get passed the main single player mode, the REAL game starts.

You can describe the multi-player in this game in one word: Perfection. Every character handles differently, and has a unique personality. Every levels has short-cuts and a unique look and feel. The four-player graphics are remarkably fast, detailed, and smooth for being on a 64-bit system. And the controls really are perfect. And since you have to get bananas to go faster, find and hit every speed boost pad you can, and collect balloons for offense and defensive power-ups, you can never let your guard down. Each and every level can be experienced a variety of different ways. You can play every level reversed, and you can try every level with cars, hover-crafts, and planes (and players can even use diffent vehicles on the same course at the same time!). When this game came out it won awards for technical achievement. They were well deserved. I do not think there has ever been a split-screen racing game to match it. Not in gameplay, not in graphical prowess, and certainly not in fun factor. A great game for kids and adults. No N64 owner who loves multi-player games should be without it!

Zooming Through The Jungle

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: May 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

With the successful franchise of Super Mario Brothers blooming in 1996 with Mario 64, Nintendo 64 seemed to be very strong as a contender in the video game wars. Although the system has lasted about 6 years, the impact it has made with cartridge video games, will never be duplicated ever. When Mario Kart 64 came out in 1997, the field was just explosive unlike anything else. Then, nearly a year later, another mark in the racing form came about with Diddy Kong Racing. The game was just as surprising as the race that Mario Kart had left in the dust. Surprisingly, with Diddy Kong Racing, there was a little more at stake than meets the eye.

With the release of Diddy Kong Racing, it took the racing game to another level. Unlike Mario Kart 64, there are three different kinds of vehicles to really choose from, instead of one: Kart-style, like Mario Kart 64, Airplane, and Hovercraft. It makes it a little different to rangle with, when in some courses you can race with only one of those vehicles, and on others, you can choose to race two or three vehicles. The game features the story of Diddy Kong and his friends trying to save Timber's Island from the clutches of Wizpig, a vile hog that holds control of the island. There are so many courses that are in the way that you must unlock in the story adventure mode. Still, there are also some other feels and challenges along the way, including unlocking challenges and two hidden charcters: Drumstick and T.T. and some very special codes that you can access in the tracks Mode.

However, there are some flaws that Diddy Kong Racing has that were just surprising. First, there is a slower frame rate than Mario Kart 64, but the gameplay itself definitely makes up for that flaw. Another flaw is the control among some of the characters like Crunch The Alligator, and Banjo, the bear from the Nintendo 64 game, Banjo-Kazooie, is a little more difficult than evenly averaged in Mario Kart 64. The lighter charcters like Pipsy The Mouse and Tiptup The Turtle, provide a much better use for control in getting those challenges unlocked for a tasteful race with Wizpig in the final showdown.

Although many people stopped making games for the Nintendo 64, there are some good agmes that still continue to push that pedal to the metal. Diddy Kong is one of them, if you really love the challenge. Considering that mostly all racing games are exactly the same as you could possible imagine, there are some games that still stand that gameplay. If you've loved Mario Kart 64, you'll definitely love Diddy Kong Racing.

Rather Fun, Actually

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 08, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is pretty fun, especially the races. The multiplayer can get on yer nerves, though. You can choose from eight characters, and unlock two new ones. You can race using one of three vehicles: go-kart, hovercraft, and airplane. The game in fun, but can get rather old.

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