Mario Kart Kinetic

Mario Kart Kinetic is the eigth installment in the Mario Kart esgame developed by Beanstalk Inc. along with Nintendo. There are two versions of the game, the Storybook and the Nintendo Comet. The Storybook version was released on August 7, 2012, worldwide, and the Comet version will release on September 21, 2014 worldwide.
==Gameplay==
The gameplay is similar to other Mario Kart games, including the appearence of Coins. Like in Mario Kart 7, they give you coins to purchase different wheel types. But like in Super Mario Kart and Mario Kart: Super Circuit, the give speed boosts. These two functions add gameplay ideas not in the more recent installements, or their retro counterparts.
You are able to drift like in Mario Kart DS, to the same degree of how it affects gameplay. Dust, Blue Sparks, Red Sparks, or Purple Sparks come out of your kart. Purple Sparks are the highest level of sparks, and are currently exlcusive to this game
Unlike in Mario Kart Wii, motorbikes do not make any appearence, except in beta (where Zapper appeared as one of Waluigi's, Wiggler's, and Boomerang Bro.'s unlockable karts).
===Controls===
A Button- (Hold) Makes your Kart move forward
B Button- (Press) Stops your Kart, (Hold) Drives the Kart Backwards
R Button- (Hold while turning) Drifts, (Press) Makes the kart jump up
L Button- (Hold while turning) Drits, (Press with item) Uses an item
==Modes==
===Grand Prix===
Grand Prix is split into four modes, one unlocked after beating the other. The four modes are 50cc, 100cc, 150cc, and 300cc. Unlike in Mario Kart DS, 150cc Mirror does not appear. The tracks in Grand Prix are:
Mushroom Cup	
Flower Cup	
Star Cup	
Special Cup	
Feather Cup
Mario Raceway	
Honey Bee's Hive	
Bowser Fortress	
Boom Boom Circuit	
River Delfino
Croco Clouds	
Kamek Hideaway	
Snifit's Frozen Cove	
Chain Chomp Street	
Wiggler Way
Hotfoot Highway	
Luigi's Lava Mansion	
Mushroom Village	
Paper Mario Land	
Diddy's Kong Casino
Baby Tunnels	
Bowser Castle	
Burning Beach	
Rainbow Road	
Daimond City
Shell Cup	
Banana Cup	
Leaf Cup	
Lightning Cup	
Tanookup
DS Tick Tock Clock	
N64 Yoshi Valley	
Wii Wario's Gold Mine	
SNES Bowser Castle 2	
N64 Moo Moo Farm
GCN Baby Park	
Wii Mushroom Gorge	
3DS Shy Guy Baazar	
Wii Koopa Cape	
GCN Daisy Cruiser
GBA Sky Gardens	
DS Figure-8 Circuit	
SNES Ghost Valley 1	
3DS Rosalina's Ice World	
3DS DK Jungle
SNES
Vanilla Lake 2	
3DS Maka Wuhu	
GCN Dino Dino Jungle	
N64
 Rainbow Road	
GBA Ribbon Road
===Time Trial===
===1P VS===
===Battle===
===Multiplayer===
===Nintendo Network===
===Leaderboards===
===Practice===
==Characters==
33 characters are playable in the game. 15 are default, and 18 are unlockable. The characters new to Mario Kart are marked with *.
===Default===
=== Unlockable ===
====Unlocking Criteria====
	
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==Karts==
Every character has 6 karts, 2 are default and 4 are unlockable. * indicates that that kart is unlockable.
===Default Characters===
===Unlockable Characters===
==Items==
Items are found in Item Boxes in the course. You pick them up by driving into them. There is a variety of items in the new Mario Kart! * indicates new item in the MK series.
==DLC==
Downloadable Content is avalible for purchase at the Virtual Complex.
See Mario Kart Kinetic/ Downloadable Content for DLC.
==Trivia==
*In beta, the name was Mario Kart Hyper. It was changed for unknown reasons.
* This is the first game in a while to not have triple green or red shells.
* The red shell in this game has the same effect as before, it just looks different.
* Mini Mushroom works the same as the Lightning Bolt from past installments.
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