Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games
Mario & Sonic on the Wii is a collection of twenty-four events based on the Olympic Games. Players can assume the role of a Nintendo or Sega character while competing against the others in these events…
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games is a sport developed by Sega Sports R&D, released 6 November 2007 on Wii.
What Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games is
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games is a sport game developed by Sega Sports R&D and released in 2007. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Wii only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games is a 2007 crossover sports video game developed and published by Sega for the Wii, with Nintendo publishing it in Japan. It was released for the Nintendo DS the following year. It is the first installment in the Mario & Sonic series, a crossover between Nintendo's Mario and Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog series, and the first licensed crossover game to feature characters from both franchises. Being the first official video game of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, it is licensed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) through exclusive licensee International Sports Multimedia (ISM).
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and party. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.
Where it sits in the Sonic The Hedgehog series
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games is the 185th of 407 entries we hold in the Sonic The Hedgehog series. The next entry was Sonic Rivals 2 in 2007. Its critic score of 66 is 5 points below the series average of 71. The highest-rated entry is Super Smash Bros. for Wii U at 95.
How it was received
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games holds a critic score of 66 out of 100. That places it above 35% of the 1,609 rated sport games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2007 averaged 64, so it scored 2 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 65, across 68 votes.
What it launched against
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games launched on 6 November 2007, within three weeks of Super Mario Galaxy, Mass Effect, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Super Mario Galaxy, Mass Effect, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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