Mario Kart Wii is getting lamer and lamer. First there was the so-called "text chat" online which consists only of predetermined phrases. And now they take out one of Mario Kart's main features!

So, you can't play 4-player free for all battles anymore. All battles are TEAM battles, and there can only be two teams. While 6 vs. 6 online is a good improvement, offline is what really suffers. So if you've only got 2 other people to play with, you can't play 3-player free-for-all. It either has to be 2 vs. 1 or you add a CPU player to the other person's team.

I also would've loved a crazy, hectic 12-player free-for-all online, but what's so damn hard about 4-player free-for-all that every other damn Mario Kart game has had?

That's so utterly lame.