Where Mario Kart 7 takes the cake for me as the greatest kart racer in general, Diddy Kong Racing competes in a single player lane in a totally different way.

I'll admit, when me and my partner first booted this up, I was uninspired by the multiplayer. It seemed mediocre at best. However, if you dig into the Adventure mode, which is definitely the main thing on offer here, you get an enjoyable, challenging experience which unlike Mario Kart often feels balanced and fair, despite it also having items, albeit in a different way.

If you're a standard kart racer fan this may not be for you, but as someone who absolutely loves mastering courses in Sonic Adventure 2 (yes, I just compared a kart racer to a Sonic Adventure game), the challenges in single player for these tracks are rewarding, enjoyable and addicting, with minigames and unique boss races to boot.

Whilst Mario Kart 7 took the water and gliding segments and combined them into the tracks, Diddy Kong Racing innovated by letting you choose which you wanted from a boat, car, or plane, each of which control fantastically, but spoiler - not all characters are built equally. Some of them do feel bad in certain vehicles, the only real option is Bumper with Pipsy being a close second.

People who hate on Bumper have no bitches.