Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games
Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games is the fifth installment of the Mario & Sonic series. Unlike previous games, this game was officially licensed by the International Olympic Committee for the 31st…
Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games is a sport developed by Sega Sports R&D, released 23 June 2016 on Wii U.
What Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games is
Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games is a sport game developed by Sega Sports R&D and released in 2016. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Wii U only. It runs on Hedgehog Engine 2. It carries an ESRB E10+ age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games is the fifth installment of the Mario & Sonic series. Unlike previous games, this game was officially licensed by the International Olympic Committee for the 31st Summer Olympic Games and taking place in the host city Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. The game contains two new game modes, Golf and Rugby along with twenty new characters, ten from the Mario series, ten from the Sonic the Hedgehog series.
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 and Single player.
Where it sits in the Sonic The Hedgehog series
Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games is the 312th of 407 entries we hold in the Sonic The Hedgehog series. The next entry was Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice in 2016. Its critic score of 68 is 3 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 Rio 2016 Olympic Games holds a critic score of 68 out of 100. That places it above 38% of the 1,610 rated sport games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored about average for its year.
What it launched against
Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games launched on 23 June 2016, within three weeks of Mirror's Edge Catalyst, Inside, Hearts of Iron IV and VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Mirror's Edge Catalyst, Inside, Hearts of Iron IV, VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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