Video: Google Play Pulls Out All The Stops For Its Manic Mario Kart Tour Trailer

Looks good, I'm just worried about the controls and how much of it will be hounded by microtransactions?

Some nice marketing

If it's like Candy Crush, with Stars/Shells happy hour, it will be crazy chaotic.

@Multi Early reports from the beta say its pretty heavy on the Microtransactions but the game itself plays well and looks quite nice.

Will have to wait for launch to see for ourselves but I'm on the fence for now. Doesn't cost anything to try at least.

It's definitely a fun and creative ad, but, unless my phone will actually start running around, I don't think I saw much gameplay in there, indeed I barely saw the game at all XD

Quite a misleading ad really. Unless the game will feature tracks based on some of the types of locations seen e.g. a school, then people could legitimately complain that nearly all of the advert is a rather surreal leap from what the product is. It won't make your phone 'drive' around.

I think I will let this one pass me by.

I've just pre-registered my interest so will download it day 1. Lets just see how its turns out... It's free to try so nothing to lose.

That is actually a great ad.

This just makes me think it's about time Nintendo announced Mario Kart 9..as I have played 8 to death across two systems.

I couldn't stop thinking about how those screens are getting completely scratched. I think it would have been nicer if they'd given them wheels or made them float. Also probably would have made more sense to use Nintendo themed covers.

Btw did anyone notice the Nintendo references throughout the video? "Peach Preparatory", "Rainbow Road"...

Really want to give it a try
But what I trully wish to play (concerning racing games) is a new F-Zero

That advert was so cute.

It looks like a fun way to get in a few quick races when you only have a few minutes and not enough time to whip out the Switch and run through a full MK8D race. One thing I’d love to see come to MK8D, or the next installment, that Tour currently offers is alternate costumes for characters!

looks neat. will download

Good ad, will draw in plenty of new folks to the House of M as well as lapsed fans.

Gimme pro controller blue tooth support and I’m in.

Very nice Can't wait to try the game

Terrible ad but will still try it as it's free. Yoshi Yoshi

@Multi well it is a free to play game most free to play games have micro transactions

@Audiogore0733

And that's why I rarely play any of them.

The problem with financing a game through microtransaction is that you need to build the game around the concept. You have to shoehorn in artificial barriers in the game to hamper player progress unless they pay real money. Barriers that would make absolutely no sense at all in a normal game. You never see something like this in a regular game. You don't see your character saying that he did all he could for today (your day) and is exhausted so just stop playing and come back tomorrow.

To me, I see most of these games as riddled with game-altering, game-breaking features. I completely understand the need to make money, but doing it this way kind of ruins what I like about games. I play them to escape the mundane world, not to be constantly reminded that I need to pay for whatever premium currency with my real world money. This turns me off.

It's fine if people don't mind this. I do. I much more prefer paying a bigger one-time fee and be done with this gaming nonsense and not have to think about it anymore, than being constantly asked for money.

It seems a strange decision to make the game in portrait mode with one thumb control. Landscape and two thumbs gives so much more control. But then I’m not the target market as I don’t game on my iTelephone

This is a FANTASTIC advert!

Come to think of it, why did alternate costumes take this long to be a thing?

I played the beta. The game was fun. The whole use your thumb to control took getting used. You need coins to join a race. I think it was like 5 coins per race or somthing like that. I am excited for this. I'm not much of a mobile gamer but after playing the beta i am excited for this game. I played the beta so much i took first on the leaderboards for the week and won like 50 coins from taking the leaderboards. So there are ways to get coins. I am really not too worried about microtransactions.

@Realnoize A lot of the time its like pay to win or pay to play the rest of the game. But even then Mario Kart Tour actually looks like a fun and enjoyable game even if there is some sort of micro transactions. I just hope you don't have to buy more maps or game modes.

It's original, I'll give it that. But the second one shows much more gameplay.