Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is getting new tracks from old games again with Wave 3 of the Booster Track Pass.
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe fans can rejoice: it won’t be long before wave 3 of DLC arrives. The booster route pass will provide the next additional routes in just a few weeks. They are eight again and it seems that they have all received appropriate rejuvenation treatment. Based on the trailer, a comparison video has now been created which compares the new routes to the originals.
Mario Kart 8: Here’s what the Wave 3 DLC tracks look like compared to the originals
Like where what, new routes? Yes, exactly: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on Nintendo Switch is getting the Track Booster Pass. It can be purchased individually (but is also included in the Nintendo Switch Online subscription expansion pack) and introduces 48 new tracks in all. They appear individually and on December 7 comes wave 3 of the DLC.
Here you see it Trailers for the latest courseswhich will soon be launched:
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Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – A new trailer presents the 3rd wave of the route pass with a release date
Known routes in the new: As with other DLCs, these routes are already known courses that you may be familiar with from titles such as Mario Kart Tour or older games. This also means that they’ve generally been significantly beefed up for the Switch version.
It changes: Of course, this cannot yet be seen in great detail. After all, we currently only have this trailer available here. But it makes for a pretty good comparison when we compare the original tracks to the sections of the trailer. As the GameXplain YouTube channel does here:
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Fans celebrate improvements
What’s evident here is an impressive improvement over the 3DS Rainbow Road, but not only that: Mario Kart Tour’s tracks and 3D models also seem to have received a much more extensive overhaul this time around. than was the case with previous waves of DLC. At least for one track there was a real controversy over the revision at the time:
Mario Kart 8 DLC:
The new track has been revised and looks better now
Much more about Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and the new routes:
When all of the Track Booster Pass DLC waves are released next year, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe will have an insane total of 96 tracks. So far, of course, there aren’t many, but the selection is quite impressive. You can read here which of these routes are the 13 best routes for us.
How do you like the look of the routes in comparison? What do you think of the selection for wave 3?