I found Mario Party 8 to be very enjoyable. This is a Wii game, so of course it has to has motion controls injected into it. These work well for Mario Party 8. As stated before, there usually isn't much that makes the Mario Party games different from each other due to recycled mechanics, the same formula for gameplay, and so on. Mario Party 8 does have some distinct differences from those that came before. First and most obvious is the motion controls. From rolling dice to the minigames themselves, the motion controls are used a lot. Secondly, and it has been a while, but there are unique board mechanics I believe for every board. And I don't just mean the way the boards are structured, but even win conditions as well. There are unique game modes and a system similar to 7 where you use some sort of point/credit system to unlock things like stages, minigames, game modes, characters, taunts, and countless other things. I had so much fun with this one. It's a shame my disc is buggered and the game crashes very frequently.