But it's Mario Kart World's Knockout Tour mode that was, if you'll pardon the wordplay, the real knockout here. While I can't speak to the Free Roam aspect of Mario Kart World as it wasn't part of ...

The last "mainline" Mario Kart game, Mario Kart 8, originally came out way, way back in 2014 for the Wii U, and was later re-released as Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on the Nintendo Switch.

It was the most alive Mario Kart has felt for me in literal years. Knockout Tour is similar in that you're racing between a circuit of interconnected tracks, karting throughout the world of Mario ...