Mario Kart: Double Dash!! (Prima's Official Strategy Guide) [Paperback]

Prima Games (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 25, 2003 | Series: Prima's Official Strategy Guide

Shotgun!
·Tips on insane cornering and powersliding
·Dust-eating hints for multiplayer madness, including Co-op tactics and LAN Play set-up!
·Over 2700 driver and kart combinations!
·All character special attacks revealed!
·Complete drivethrough of every course, including detailed maps showing the best racing lines!
·Covers Grand Prix, Time Trial, and Versus Modes!
·All secrets and unlockables revealed, including hidden characters, tracks, and more!
·Comprehensive tips for activating all 16 Staff Ghosts!

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From the Inside Flap

Shotgun!
·Tips on insane cornering and powersliding
·Dust-eating hints for multiplayer madness, including Co-op tactics and LAN Play set-up!
·Over 2700 driver and kart combinations!
·All character special attacks revealed!
·Complete drivethrough of every course, including detailed maps showing the best racing lines!
·Covers Grand Prix, Time Trial, and Versus Modes!
·All secrets and unlockables revealed, including hidden characters, tracks, and more!
·Comprehensive tips for activating all 16 Staff Ghosts!

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Prima Games (November 25, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761544240
• ISBN-13: 978-0761544241
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #723,111 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Originally hailing from the English city of Manchester, David began his video game career in 1995, writing for numerous classic British gaming magazines from a rusting, condemned, dry-docked German fishing trawler floating on the River Thames. Fleeing the United Kingdom, he joined the crew at the part-fraternity, part-sanitarium known as GameFan magazine. David helped launch GameFan Books and form Gamers' Republic, and was partly responsible for the wildly unsuccessful incite Video Gaming and Gamers.com. He wrote his first guide in 1996, but began authoring guides for Prima in 2000. He has written over 70 guides including: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess; Assassin's Creed; Half-Life: Orange Box; Mario Kart Wii; Halo 3: ODST; and Fallout 3. He lives in the woods of the Pacific Northwest, with his wife and an eight-foot statue of Great Cthulhu.

Customer Reviews

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars detailed stratergy for an exellent game!, January 12, 2004

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james (uk) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mario Kart: Double Dash!! (Prima's Official Strategy Guide) (Paperback)

when i bought mario kart double dash!!, i thought it was an amazing game-however! i found playing it through in 150cc was redicuosly hard, and that's where this comes in! so i bought this. it's my bible. it shows everything there is to mario kart double dash, digging unexpected bits you never thought possible. it shows every last nook and cranny through the game, and even digs out all the fun you could possibly have with it. all fine and dandy, exept one minor con:- as with all racing game strategy guides, it's not surprising that reading the drive through part can be quite hard to take in when your having fun racing around with your friends. however, there is still so much more to it such as the training and the tips (not to mention over 2700 kart combos!)and there are exellent maps of all 16 circuits, which show you best routes, hidden roads, items etc
also you will find tons of secrets to the game. finnaly, if you've got the game, use this as your guide to driving. it will sure have effective help!!!

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The Plumber Races To The Finish Line, June 21, 2004

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Michael Kerner "Michael Kerner" (Brooklyn, New York U.S.A.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mario Kart: Double Dash!! (Prima's Official Strategy Guide) (Paperback)

It sometimes can be very frustrating when strategy guides come into place for video games. They all don't seem to have it very well, but sometimes you don't need the guide to play the game. The strateggy guide for Mario Kart: Double Dash!! from Prima, is a very much straight forward strategy guide for Nintendo Gamecube buffs, but the courses are so simple and easy to play, you probably don't seem to need the strategy guide inorder to finish this race. It does tell you the strengths and the weaknesses of all the hidden racers and all the courses very much in good detail, and the regular racers from Mario & Luigi, Bowser Jr., Yoshi, Princess Toadstool a.k.a. Peach, and all the other racers. All in all, the strategy guide by Prima is nice, but it really isn't as helpful as the one Nintendo made. Even if you don't have this guide, or the other strategy guide Nintendo made, you probably don't need one for aid, if you are a vigorous player of Mario Kart: Double Dash!!

2 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars USELESS!!!!!, August 28, 2005

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Mario Kart: Double Dash!! (Prima's Official Strategy Guide) (Paperback)

You don't need this guide to beat this game. You can figure what you can unlock by yourself. I beat this game without the guide. Don't get this guide unless you're horrible at this game!