User Reviews (21 - 31 of 61)

Show these reviews first:

Highest Rated
Lowest Rated Newest
Oldest Most Helpful
Least Helpful

Diddy Kong Racing

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is absolutly fantastic. You can shose from 16 different cources and go in a car, hovercraft or plane!!! There is also an adventure mode where you can race the genie, gather balloons, and become the king of the cources. I really recommend this game to any racer. I give it 5 stars.

Outstanding!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 15, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I'm glad to hear that I'm not the only one saying that this game is better than MK64...
I received this game for 3 years ago and I played it again, again and again being my favorite part the Coin Challenge. Rare is the Rolls Royce of the video game industry and this product demonstrates all their talent. For young kids and grown ups too Diddy Kong Racing is some of the best software money can buy. Simply a classic!

A must-buy!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is easily one of the best games on the Nintendo 64 console. There are LOTS of racing levels and several special levels that can be shoot-em-up or something else. The controls are VERY easy to learn, and your craft (cars and other cool vehicles you'll find out about) handels well. The levels are attractive and neither too easy or too difficult. There are many fun features in the single player mode. The levels will keep you busy and are not hard to beat. The multiplayer mode is probably the best part of the game. The split-screen mode is fine in two player mode, not a large dedudction in quality from single-player, and all of the levels in single-player can be used in multiplyer.

Diddy and the gang defeat Wizpig

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I find this an awsome racing game because you're not just racing you are trying to save Timber's(Diddy's friend)island from the evil Wizpig.
There are four different worlds Dino Domain, Sherbet island, Snowflake Mountain, and Dragon forest. in each of those worlds are four tracks. You have to win each of the tracks to race against four of Wizpig's bosses Bubbler, Smokey, Bluey, and I forgot the tricerotop's name. After you beat them you do the silver coin challenge when you have to collect eight coins from each level and be in first place. Some coin challenges are easy and some are not.
After the silver coin challenges you race the bosses again and they are a little bit harder.
Once you beat them you get a piece of Wizpig's amulet.There are a total of four amulets once you get all four you are up to Wizpig who is really hard.
after beating wizpig you go to future fun land which has four new tracks.
Only this world doesn't have a boss.But you do the same thing you beat the tracks do the silver coin challenge and beat wizpig for the second time.
Big adventure huh! You will enjoy it
After you beat Wizpig for the second time you do adventur two when the tracks are mirror imagesand the computer players are harder.
there are T.T challenges and trophy races. if you beat a T.T challenge then you will get a peice of a T.T amulet. there are a total of four get all four and you will be able to enter the T.T door which is Wizpig for the second. To get the T.T challenges you have to get the key. There are four T.T challenges and one from each world.
That means the key will be in one of the tracks from each world so you have to look in each track.
This was a long review because the game was long and that's what I liked about it.

A very good game.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I love this game. As soon as it came out I got it. Now it is the year of 2003 and I still like to play it. My brother is 14 and he likes it to. I think this game is fun for all ages. The game deffinetely beats Mario Kart. The single player mode is fun but challenging. There are two hidden characters. They are Drumstick and T.T. I'm not going to tell you how to unlock them but I will tell you that T.T. took me about 3 months to unlock. The multiplayer is great. Tracks like Icicle Pyramid all superb with more than one human player. You can pick any track that you've been in in single-player mode and race on it with any veichle that qualifies. For example, if you do Hot Top Volcano you can have one player in a airplane and another could be in a hovercraft. I think this is one of the best games out there so if you don't own then you can buy a copy off of Amazon.com.

Great Concept...Fair Execution

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Diddy Kong Racing is an awesome concept: an adventure game mixed with a racing game. Throw in some cute characters, cool bosses, three different vehicles, huge racing courses and some sweet secrets and you've got yourself an awesome game, right? Well...yes and no.

I loved this game when I was a kid. Diddy Kong Racing was the first game I bought for the N64 (in fact, it was the reason I purchased an N64). I played this non-stop then, beating the entire game, unlocking all the secrets, then beating the whole game again. Then I moved onto different games, and DKR fell by the wayside.

So, a few days ago, I decided to pop it in, for the nostalgia factor (and also to see if it was still any fun). I started a new game, and found the first track. So far, I was having fun, probably due to the nostalgia, but so far so good. Then I got into my first race. I was greeted by horrible controls- it felt like my character was sliding along on ice. I managed to finish the race in first place, soundly beating my CPU opponents, even with the controls. I thought to myself "This isn't how I remember DKR...maybe I'll play some more." So, I play for a few more hours, beating the world and the level boss. The controls have gotten slightly better, but are still very loose. The cheesy music is grating on my nerves, as are the annoying super-cutesy characters. I finally turn the game off, deciding too let my fond memories of the game remain intact.

In 1997, Diddy Kong Racing was revolutionary. Today, it stands as a failed idea. Still, I hope that some developer can take the basic idea of DKR and craft a decent kart racer around it. I really like the adventure game aspects of DKR; but the poor multiplayer and the loose controls are huge turn-offs. Ultimately, you'd be better off buying Mario Kart 64 if you need a racing game for your N64. I give DKR points for originality; it's just that the execution is way off the mark.

This game is cool

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Diddy kong racing is one of my favorite games on N64. I love the coureses and the cool battle mode. I love the charactors and I would reccomend playing with 3 players or 4 to make the game more exciting. Here is some games I would buy for N64.

*Diddy kong racing
*Super Smash Bros.
*Mario Kart 64
*And Zelda games

no unlockables[in 2-4p mode]

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

you can go to all couses and battle in multiplayer. hip hip horay, i mean hip hip hooray!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If it's a kiddy game, it's a very hard one

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 08, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Diddy Kong Racing will forever be looked at as a kiddy title, and in some ways Rareware did go overboard on this one. The character designs are very sugary sweet, accompanied by high-pitched voices that you want to slap in the face (Pipsy, I'm looking at you). Bright, cheerful colors, bright cheerful soundtrack. Yeah, kids love this stuff.

But strip all that away, and this is a very well-designed and challenging cart racer. It kind of does the opposite of Mario Kart 64, and offers a strong single-player mode and a fun but somewhat bare multiplayer-mode. Similiar to platform games, you race through courses and collect balloons, which in turn open boss fights and other worlds with more courses. There are three fully-tuned vehicles to choose from: your kart, a plane, and a hovercraft. Each has it's pros and cons, controls differently from the others, and takes skill to master. You can even race different vehicles against each other, often taking different routes in the same course. Like other kart racers this one isn't about speed, but the tracks have lots of detail and animation, and are consistently interesting to race through (one even looks like the Death Star trench from Star Wars).

Where the game starts to frustrate is Rareware's typical way of extending play time. Beat the courses once, then race through them again and collect 8 hard-to-reach coins while still maintaing first place. This leads to a harder boss encounter, and must be done to unlock the final levels and the best ending. Little kids will probably throw the controller down right here, but anyone who's worth anything in video games will find it immensely satisfying to clear Rare's requirements and unlock all that the game has to offer. Seperates the men from the boys, and all that.

If Rareware hadn't made the characters so sugary, this could've easily topped Mario Kart 64 in recognition among the older crowd. Definitely worth a purchase used, and good luck to all those up for the challenge.

Fun Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: November 30, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game has awesome racetracks and super graphics. I also like
the characters. My favorite characters are diddy kong and conker.
The aventure mode is fun too. I also like how you can be a plane
a car and a tube. This game is awesome.

Review Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Next 

Actions