Nintendo Wii

Donkey Kong Barrel Blast is a racing style game, but it is not an annoying one that poorly uses the Wii remote like a steering wheel. Instead you use the Wii remote and nunchuck by alternately shaking them up and down like you do to run in games like Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games. The point is that it is supposedly to be a movement like playing the bongos. It is an extension of the Donkey Kong Gamecube games that used the bongos and was originally planned as a Gamecube game.

The controls can be kind of hard to get used to, but the tutorial is pretty well done. I know a lot of people have bashed the game, but I actually love it. One thing I can agree about, though, is that it would have been a much better game if they had made it so you could use the bongos through the Gamecube ports.

The graphics are Gamecube quality, but they are at least interesting in terms of the way the scenery looks as you fly through the levels in your little flying race vehicle. The sound is not too bad because it changes depending on how you play the bongos to move your vehicle and is thus does not seem like a repetitive soundtrack.

Overall this is a good racing game to check out if you are into racing games and do not like the way the Wii remote ones work, however, it is still not the same as a racing game with a joystick, so it does take some getting used to the controls.

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