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Angry Birds Go! Copies Mario Kart Formula, Tries To Compete For Kart Racing King

Rovio will soon be releasing a new Angry Birds title, called Angry Birds Go!, but the object of the game is not to slingshot birds into barricades filled with pigs. Instead, Rovio has copied the powered-up, item-fueled formula of Mario Kart to create the first ever kart racing game in the series. In addition, the company is taking a chance by releasing the title across several platforms, including iOS, Android, and Windows, and making it free-to-play on all of them. Time will tell if the game ever joins the ranks of Angry Birds Trilogy and Angry Birds Star Wars to make it to a Nintendo console, but if it does, it will have to go head to head with some fierce competition. Angry Birds Go! will be released for mobile devices on December 11th.

149 thoughts on “Angry Birds Go! Copies Mario Kart Formula, Tries To Compete For Kart Racing King”

      1. Angry birds sells? It’s free on android and sells on apple. Can’t compare mario kart and this franchise fairly.

      1. Mario Kart retails for 60$ while this game is either free or 2$. 20M Mario Kart sold would bring 1.2B$ in revenue while 100M sales of this shit game would only bring 200M$ of revenue. You can’t compare these 2 games.

  1. I hate Rovio, they suck and they got lucky. This will never be in the same league as Mario Kart or Sonic & All Stars Racing.

  2. Everybody hates our empire and yet they all copy it…

    It’s pathetic…

    Now who’s got the low self-esteem?…

    Ahahahahahahahahah!

        1. Nintendo: gamepad
          Microsoft: Smartglass
          Sony: Vita

          they all do it, it’s just a matter of who does it best. I have a Wii u and 360. The gamepad is much better than smartglass on the 360. I have not used a vita connected to a PS3/4 so I can’t comment on that.

    1. This whole copy concept is so idiotic and just plain retarded…

      How can they drive if they don’t even have any limbs?…

      Stupid fools…

            1. Says the retard that decided to copy a Nintendo related subject once again plus calls himself “Atari Commander”, automatically making himself a corporate slave…

              Owned three times now in less than 15 min…

                1. Because you question the Mii not having limbs but if Mii was Sony’s isea, it would’t be a problem. After all you ok with a paper bag as a new Sony IP

                  1. I didnt Say shit about sony someone complain about Bird dont have Limbs to Drive a car.Miis dont have Limbs to.

            1. When Halo-Tennis comes out, and your players have realistic physics and muscle movements, will you be happy?

          1. Bee’s have hands as well… Their wings are only made of thin membrane. However Birds, only have thick wings which are useless for driving.

    2. True. No one who plays with Consoles and Handhelds care about angry birds, its just those non gamers who have their lame phones. The thing is that people are ready to pay full price of Mario Kart but angry birds needs to be sold at 0,05 cents like some shit to get sales.

        1. Ignoring that casuals didnt play Brawl, Twilight Princess, RE4, DKCR, Skyword Sword, Metriod or Galaxy which also helped Wii sell.

  3. its like mario kart, but gay. do people even care about angry birds anymore? also, they’re not even angry with this!

          1. I only buy Third Class games if they are worthy my money…

            And since Bayonetta 2 and X are exclusive for us and passed High Command’s Seal of Quality, I will buy them both next year…

          2. Ignoring you got to buy a Wii U to buy such games. So of course he won’t buy those to he gets the hardware first. Also ignoring, X aint no army game.

              1. What X? I don’t know. The last time I saw the trailer, it was a guy walking with a sword. But if you found a leak in X do tell.

                    1. In Nintendo Commanders world this is a boring Army Game where you have to defend the world.

      1. Ignoring that Mario Kart 8 was first for motion control. And this new Mario Kart for Wii U lacks gravity. Whats new about Cod, more guns? Better maps? Makimg fish smarter?

    1. @cowardly atari commander who you can’t reply too. That Army type game you talking about is a tottally different concept. Where’s the gun?

      1. @cowardly atari commander who removed his reply button like a little bitch: How you know the game X is boring when it’s not out yet or been reviewd. Hell you don’t even know how characters look like attacking or killing each other.

  4. So because this ain’t a Nintendo game, trolls aren’t calling this “kiddy.” If this was a Nintendo game, that’s what would have been said.

        1. If we were Sonydrones then it woyld have been alright. But since we like Nintendo games, im a hammer and Nintendo commander is a saw.

                  1. Dude stop being such a religious nut, we don’t give a fuck, Oops looks like I wont get into heaven now,

                  1. i dont judge, lol.
                    you two are tools, that is why i CALLED you tools.
                    i was here last year with one of my many troll accounts and you two tools were here, doing the exact same shit your still doing.
                    you can only forgive so much…………………

                1. stop hypocrite. if you want to troll God, why dont you do it directly to Him? and besides, christians must not troll… this is a gaming site, so only talk about games

  5. Peanut Butter Kit Kat

    Seriously, this looks like utter garbage! How many Mario Kart clones has their been since the original came out?

    1. Even Sega Makes a Sony game like Mario kart.And if you Watch the latest Mario kart trailer you see some stuff out of the Sonic game.

        1. But Sonic is well made unlike this angry birds shit. Sonic deserves to compete against mario because its good you know. Angry Birds is just shit.

    2. Sonic Kart, Crash Bandicoot Kart, Diddy Kong Racing, Angry Birds Kart, Sonic Transformed, Spyro Kart and what not…

      1. Yeah will if he thinks Mario Kart copied Sonic Racing, you know he has short term. Next he’ll say SSBU copied All Stars.

        1. Ah yes indeed…

          Soon the Xbots will make their own Plagiato de plagiato Smash Brothers game…

          With only Master Chief as a playable character…

          1. The reason why All Stars sucked was because too many characters had guns and was shooting most of the time. Yet Link, Samus, Mario and Pikachu have different attacks when you press “B.”

              1. They already are. They’ve been dead since Microsoft acquired Rare back in 2002. The only chance we have to see Banjo and Conker back on Nintendo platforms again is if Microsoft drops out of the console race. Which is likely, since I can see them losing a lot of money on the Xbone this gen.

                1. Peanut Butter Kit Kat

                  Crash Team Racing, LittleBigPlanet Karting, Smurf Racer, Lego Racers, Atari Karts Rascal Racers… there’s a lot..

  6. How is it copying mario kart actually? There are a bunch of other games that have the same racing power up formula. unless they said they’re copying then they will but if they didn’t then they aren’t

    1. Peanut Butter Kit Kat

      Yes, they’re called “Mario Kart Clones”, they’ve been around ever since the original Mario Kart was released on the Super Nintendo..

  7. Throwing characters into a Kart racing game doesn’t make it good…. I feel like they’re just trying to make sure their characters stay relevant, cos the Angry Birds traditional formula can’t last forever. Keeping in mind that it’s free to play (and probably has a million micro-transactions) it definitely won’t compare to Mario Kart’s standards. I’ll download and try it out though.

  8. True story from today. No lie. My kid has lost his 3DS some months ago. With lots of software, but fortunatelly some cartridges are still at home. Then I bought him fancy Android tablet, so he could play his Minecraft PE without problems. Some days ago, I have noticed he was watching his beloved Paper Mario youtube gameplays with strange look. And today he has asked me to sell tablet and rebuy 3DS so he could play his Nintendo games again. I can not afford both unfortunatelly. So there is hope. We still have WiiU BTW, so Nintendo is at home all the time. I am really happy for his choice.

  9. It will be hard to justify buying a wii u and a 60$ game just to play a kart racer when people can download this shit on their phone or tablet for FREE

  10. Competiting against Mario Kart ? GL HF.
    It could sell more, as there is a lot of ignorant and naive people, but it won’t be better, that’s for damn sure.

  11. Reminds me of Cro Mag Ralley…a game from a long time ago. But Angry Birds will suck no matter what they do to it.

  12. People are hating on Angry Birds racing game, because it is based off Angry Birds. Why can’t they admit that it actually looks like fun? I’m not saying it is gonna be better than Mario Kart, but just because it has Angry Birds in the title doesn’t mean the game is crap.

  13. Look! more non-Nintendo news! what else? make a full article about another Xbox/PS/Smarthphone game that slightly looks like a Nintendo game?

  14. This actually looks like it will be fun. Although the Angry Birds universe is NOWHERE near as charming and endearing as the Mario universe. The Mario Kart series will always reign supreme! ^_^

    Crash Team Racing on the PS1 was also awesome.

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