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Racer's Island on Wii

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Racer's Island is a Racing game available on the Wii. It can be played in Splitscreen Competitive modes.

Racer's Island is a Racing game. Racing games, although sometimes seen as a sporting sub category, are a well established video game genre in their own right.

Racer's Island can be played in a Splitscreen mode. Split Screen Multiplayer games involve multiple players by providing a portion of the screen for each person. This enables two, three or four players to be involved in the game using just one console. Although popular for the PS2, Gamecube and Wii it is becoming less common in modern 360 and PS3 games which are less willing to sacrifice horsepower from the visuals to accomodate the extra players - they opt for an online multiplayer mode instead.

Racer's Island can be played in a Competitive mode. Competitive Multiplayer games provide experiences where players compete against each other and the computer. Obviously lending itself to sports and team games, these competitive engagements have also dominated the shooting and fighting genres because of the direct combat and expertise involved in each. Although these games were originally played in a split screen style, more recently they are played online via services such as PlayStation Network, Xbox Live and the Nintendo Wireless Connection.

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Racer's Island

Racers' Island brings eight player racing to Wii-ware. Theme park locations offer players the chance to drive and shoot there way through a Mario Kart like game.

Each character has a specific weapon to use during the race to slow down other players. The unusual thing here is that you use the Wii-mote to shoot and the Nun-chuck to steer through the 20 tracks.
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