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Developer(s)	Beanstalk Inc.
Publisher(s)	Fantendo
Platform(s)
Genre(s)	Racing
Release Date(s)
Q3/Q4 2012
Rating(s)
RP

Mario Kart Kinetic is an upcoming Mario Kart game developed by Beanstalk Inc. along with Nintendo. It will come out Q3/Q4 2012 and will be for the Storybook. It is the 8th installement of the popular series. It is compatable with the Storybook Fire.

Contents 1 Gameplay 1.1 Controls 2 Modes 2.1 Grand Prix 2.2 Time Trail 2.3 1P VS 2.4 Battle 2.5 Multiplayer 2.6 Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection 2.7 Leaderboards 2.8 Practice 3 Characters 3.1 Default 3.2 Unlockable 3.2.1 Unlocking Criteria 4 Karts 4.1 Default Characters 4.2 Unlockable Characters 5 Items 6 DLC 7 Trivia

GameplayEdit

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.

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).

ControlsEdit

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

ModesEdit

Grand PrixEdit

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 (Super Mario Circuit)	Honey Bee's Hive	Bowser Fortress	Boom Boom Circuit (Boom Boom Street)	River Delfino
Croco Clouds (Croco Staduim)	Kamek Hideaway	Snifit's Frozen Cove (Shy Guy's Ice Cave)	Chain Chomp Street	Wiggler Way
Hotfoot Highway (Hotfoot Raceway)	Luigi's Lava Mansion	Mushroom Village	Paper Mario Land (Paper Peach's Yard)	Diddy's Kong Casino (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 TrailEdit

1P VSEdit

BattleEdit

MultiplayerEdit

Nintendo Wi-Fi ConnectionEdit

LeaderboardsEdit

PracticeEdit

CharactersEdit

33 characters are playable in the game. 15 are default, and 18 are unlockable. The characters new to Mario Kart are marked with *.

DefaultEdit

Unlockable Edit

Unlocking CriteriaEdit

	Criterion
Daisy	Win 50cc Special Cup.
Toadette	Win 50cc Feather Cup.
Metal Mario	Win 50cc Lightning Cup.
Lakitu	Win 50cc Tanookup.
Baby Luigi	Get an A-Rank 100cc cups
Mii	Get a 1-star rank on every 50cc Nitro cups or get an A-Rank on a 50cc Retro cup.
Bee	Win 100cc Special Cup.
Koopa Paratroopa	Win 100c Feather Cup.
Birdo	Win 100cc Lightning Cup.
Wiggler	Win 100cc Tanookup.
Dry Bones	Get a A-Rank on 150cc Cups
Croco	Win 150cc Special Cup.
Pom Pom	Beat 150cc Feather Cup as anyone except Mario, Luigi, and Toad.
Boo	Win Mirror Special Cup.
Boom Boom	Win 150cc Lightning Cup
Kamek	Win 150cc Tanookup
Shy Guy	Win Mirror Feather Cup
Boomerang Bros	Win Mirror Lightning Cup

KartsEdit

Every character has 6 karts, 2 are default and 4 are unlockable. * indicates that that kart is unlockable.

Default CharactersEdit

Mario Standard MR B-Dasher Tanukart* Manta Ray* Mole Machine* Star Speeder*

Luigi Standard LG Boo Basher Hover Hoover* Comet* Brute* Star Speeder*

Peach Standard PC Royal Princess Limo* Hard Rocker* Double Dasher* Star Speeder*

Waluigi Standard WL Brute Junk Truck* B-Dasher* High Flyer* Star Speeder*

Yoshi Standard YS Egg1 Jailbird* Rex Racer* Fried Egg* Star Speeder*

Toad Standard TD Wingman Junk Truck* Shy Speed-star* Golden House* Star Speeder*

Koopa Troopa Standard KT Shell Shocker Double Dasher* Tough Rider* Power Flower* Star Speeder*

Diddy Kong Standard DD Jailbird Monkey Truck* Spooky Speeder* Snaker* Star Speeder*

Baby Mario Standard BM Stroller Baby Boomer* Birthday Cake* Jailbird* Star Speeder*

Bowser Jr. Standard BJ Painter Birthday Cake* Lion* King Kong* Star Speeder*

Bowser Standard BW Happy Camper Tyrant* Brute* Double Dasher* Star Speeder*

Wario Standard WR Brute Double Dasher* Wario Racer* Jailbird* Star Speeder*

Donkey Kong Standard DK Banana Split Para-Rambi* Ice Bomb* Silver Star* Star Speeder*

Unlockable CharactersEdit

ItemsEdit

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.

		Boo
	Mini 'Shroom*

DLCEdit

Downloadable Content is avalible for purchase at the Virtual Complex.

See Mario Kart Kinetic/ Downloadable Content for DLC.

TriviaEdit

• 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.