While racing or battling, the Nintendo DS's top screen offers a third-person perspective of the player's kart, while the bottom touchscreen shows the race's current standings, items carried by each racer, and a map of the course. An additional kart can be unlocked once some progress is made, and when all 150cc cups are completed with B rank or better, each 12 characters have access to all the 36 karts. To start, only 2 karts are available for each character.
These characters are Mario, Luigi, Peach, Toad, Yoshi, Donkey Kong, Wario, and Bowser, with unlockable characters being Daisy, Dry Bones, Waluigi and R.O.B. Mario Kart DS is a racing game in which the player races in a kart against other racers as one of twelve characters from the Mario series. R.O.B., the final unlockable character in Mario Kart DS Overall, Mario Kart DS is the third best-selling game for the Nintendo DS as of March 2016, and the third best-selling Mario Kart game, behind Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Mario Kart Wii, with 23.6 million units sold worldwide. Mario Kart DS was the best-selling game in its first month of release, and also held that position the following month. Mario Kart DS received several awards, including Editors' Choice Awards from GameSpot and IGN, G-Phoria 's Best Handheld Game award, and IGN's Best Racing/Driving Game. Praise focused on the game's graphics and gameplay, while criticism targeted its repetitive single-player mode, although its inclusion of Battle and Vs mode for single player were well received. The game received critical acclaim, receiving an aggregated score of 91% from Metacritic. Like the other games in the series, Mario Kart DS features characters from the Mario series, and pits them against each other as they race in karts on tracks based on locations in the Mario series.
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The game is the fifth installment in the Mario Kart series of video games, and the first to be playable via the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection online service the service has since been terminated, along with other games playable via the service.
The game was re-released for the Wii U's Virtual Console in North America and PAL regions in April 2015 and in Japan in May 2016. It was released for the Nintendo DS handheld game console in November 2005 in North America, Europe, and Australia, and on December 8, 2005, in Japan. Mario Kart DS is a 2005 kart racing video game developed and published by Nintendo.