Last week Nintendo flew themselves up to Sydney to showcase three of their bigger Wii releases for the year; among them the venerable Mario Kart Wii! AusGamers was lucky enough to get an appetising invite, and yours truly went out to get hands-on with the early '08 offerings from The Big N.

So how did they fare? You'll have to head on in to check out the skinny on Battalion Wars 2, follow-up to the Kuju-developed original for GameCube, Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, yet another GameCube original finding its way onto Wii in sequel form (and looking fantastic), and of course MKW.
http://www.ausgamers.com/images/features/Battalion.jpg

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i really dont like the look of that steering wheel controller/method

im hoping the other options are better;

just doesnt seem very exact

Interesting, thanks for the write up. I'll be checking out Battalion Wars, is the multilayer online only or can you play split-screen?

Nice previews Steve, WD.
I Can really see Mario Kart "Karooning" its way to my place asap :oP

spook, the dudes at mtv multiplayer blog had a bash at the wii wheel. check it out.

http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2008/03/18/videos-of-new-mario-kart-wii-wheel-vs-remote/

tah domino

would have liked to see nunchuk control

wheel looks flakey as