I'm going to have to disagree with Mendez here, the N64 version is pretty awful, and hasn't aged particularly well either. The handling is loose when it should be direct, there is absolutely no incentive to play it single player, the 2D sprites on 3D backgrounds are dated beyond belief, the GP tracks are not very well designed, and to cap it off, the game has so many glitches it could be considered broken; it's simply the low-point of the series. If none of the things above get to you, the rubberband AI will the 100th time you're half a lap ahead only to have the computer magically drive past you without using an item.
The perennial complaint with the GC version was that it brought little new to the series beyond a questionable two-character dynamic, but in terms of the fundamentals like handling, item balance and handicapping, it's there or thereabouts. It's just as fun to play multiplayer as MK64 (no pangs of nostalgia required), much newer and prettier, and should cost not much more than MK64 if you buy it online or 2nd hand. No contest, as far as I'm concerned. |