The greatness of the Weekend is once again upon us, and with a week off work to follow, things are looking very good here in the land of PatMan. I had some time tonight to play video games, and once again I put my Xbox One aside and played WiiU , specifically Mario Kart 8. This time around I try out the battle mode. To be honest, I have never been a big fan of battle mode in Mario Kart games. I don’t know if it is the silly balloons or if it is the non racing elements to it, I just have never been into it. I know a lot of people love it, and its not bad at all, so I played some rounds online tonight for shits and giggles. There are no arenas this time around, no specific Battle mode maps at all . Players battle it out on some of the tracks in the game that already exist. In the video below you will see that I was off to a bad start as I embarrassingly blow my engine. However, things look up  from there and I actually end up coming in first place out of  the 12 random gamers playing together tonight . USA, Germany and Canada were the countries represented in this particular match. And the match was smooth and lag free. Battle mode is decent fun, but I am much more interested in the racing action of Mario Kart 8  both offline and online. I will be returning to that next time. But, until next time, check out the video below and I will see you all, on the flip side!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uRvcGynFNM