Mario and Sonic have come together to make a game called "Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games" this game was made for the 2008 Olympic Games in China. It isn't a promo game and is still around. But is it worth it?
GAMEPLAY
You can choose from a variety of different games, like 100m, 100m freestyle, table tennis, pole vault etc. These are fun, but some of the controls are hard and get boring after a while.
GRAPHICS
The game has good graphics, and it is a game with both Mario AND Sonic in it. It's great that the two rivals look good together in one game. The graphics are 3D which is also good, because mainly in the "Mario" and "Sonic" games, the graphics are 2D. It's good that they look good in 3D
SOUND
There are good sound effects, like when you land on a mat, but there isn't much music. Most of the characters say ...
Advantages: Lots Of Events Disadvantages: No Online, Some Poor Events
Cashing In On The Olympics?
It can hardly have escaped your attention that the Olympic Games has been held in China and "Team GB" did quite well all things considered. So sales of this game must be up. This time Sega's Sonic The Hedgehog has joined in with Nintendo's Mario this time. The reason for this pairing up is purely commercial.
You can control a myriad of characters from the Mario and Sonic games, or you can play as your Mii character, I always do. Each character has different characteristics and handle events subtly differently. The events are split into the relevant categories of Track, Field, Gymnastics etc... There are nine categories in total.
Some events however are total turkeys such as rowing, where you have to maintain a rowing like motion with the two controls while pressing two ...
Advantages: great characters, graphics and for all the family Disadvantages: addictive
Mario and sonic at the olympic games is excellant as it is great for kids and adults alike as there is an event for everyone. You start with only so many events open and then you can go on the circuit to compete in 3 events to start with, come top 3 and open more events up. You find if you can not do one event you will go onto single event mode and practise untill yu can do it. This is because it is addictive to try and get gold and world records which all get saved but is is so good that you have all the characters to choose from e.g mario, sonic, bowser, daisy etc - all with there own abilitys some are all rounders, some are just speed, some are all staminia etc so choose carefully. ...
