Product Description

Mario & Sonic Olympics Wii

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Product Details

Title	Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games
Label	Sega Of America, Inc.
Platform	Nintendo Wii
Amazon Minimum Age	60 months
Operating System	Nintendo Wii
Brand	Sega Of America, Inc.
Studio	Sega Of America, Inc.
Genre	action_games
Amazon Maximum Age	240 months
Release Date	2009-10-13
Manufacturer	Sega Of America, Inc.
Hardware Platform	Nintendo Wii
Publisher	Sega Of America, Inc.
Batteries Included	No
UPC	010086650303
Number Of Discs	1
Model	65030
Publication Date	2009-10
Features	Shopping options throughout the game's Olympic village provide opportunity to buy both the gear and upgrades needed for competitions and to customize the gear that you already have. Compete in real Olympic Winter events, and over-the-top Dream Events, as you experience the glory of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics from the comfort of home. Choose from a large assortment of characters from both the Mario and Sonic game universes, including Donkey Kong, Metal Sonic, Bowser Jr. and Silver. Players are challenged to perform a variety of movements using intuitive controls on the Wii Remote/Nunchuk and Wii Balance Board as they simulate real-life movements, and skate, ski and snowboard their way to glory. Get your game on in singleplayer, multiplayer, co-op and the over Festival Mode where you complete in every event to become the overall Olympic champion.
ESRB Age Rating	Everyone
MPN	65030
EAN	0010086650303

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Customer Reviews

Do not buy this game

Review by Rose, 2010-08-20

This game was fun at first then after 2 weeks i beat it and it almost bored me to death great game at first then it became horrible do not buy it to short

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Mario and Sonic at the winter Olympics

Review by B, 2010-08-03

Great fun, the games brilliant and fun to play especally with friends it gives a mixture of the proper games and the fun mario ones. There is also a nice career mode which you can do in a two player mode as well. It's better for more than 1 player and makes good use of the balance board. Lot's of fun especally for children. Mario and sonic done it again.

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Review by Justin, a first grader

Review by Amy Anderson, 2010-06-22

It's about 8 characters, and you go to one world. One world is sling shooting. "This is the best video game ever", said the guy in front of me in the store. It's rated E and it's good for kids.

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Beautiful, but ...

Review by Beau Dure, 2010-06-20

Bit of a different perspective here: Absolute beginner at Wii gaming, having skipped all consoles since the original Atari.

And another twist: I covered the 2010 Winter Olympics, spending most of my time in Whistler with a couple of visits to Vancouver.

From a sentimental point of view, I love this game. Some of the scenery reminds me of Vancouver and Whistler. It's very pretty.

The problems are:

1. The menu screens take forever. I'm worried I'll break my A button trying to get through everything.

2. The hockey game is a little convoluted. Surely there are better ways to play hockey on the Wii.

3. The "Dream" events are rather silly aside from the snowball fight.

4. Several of the games feel pretty much the same. That's the nature of the Winter Games, as many have noted. A lot of these sports consist of going downhill as fast as you can.

5. No biathlon. Seriously, no biathlon. That was one of the sports I covered, and I'm an actual biathlon geek. But I think most people would rather see that than some other iteration of "go that way really fast -- if something gets in your way, turn," to quote "Better Off Dead."

But the game is still entertaining. The curling action -- and I say this as a curling geek as well -- mimics actual curling quite well. Kids will like the familiar Mario and Sonic characters, even if some of the games are too difficult. The ski jump and snowboardcross are highlights.

Hoping for a few small improvements for Sochi 2014.

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Pretty good

Review by Sara Avenarius, 2010-06-13

I got this game and the summer Olympics game. This is a much more advanced game than the summer games one. This is a fun game and the controls are very easy to learn. I like the characters and the scenes. The game is a bit simple for me (being 23) but it's still fun with large groups. I think it would be a great game for younger kids.

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