Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games

Overview

Kayaking

Mario and Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games is a sports game developed by SEGA in collaboration with Nintendo and an entry into the Mario and Sonic Olympic series, and is a successor to Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games, released in 2009 to coincide with the 2010 winter Olympic games held in Vancouver, Canada. The game is officially licensed by the International Olympic Committee, and the 3DS version will be launched alongside a Wii version, sometime before the 2012 Olympic Games, held in London, Great Britain. The game features 20 characters from Mario and Sonic games. The game was released on the 14th February 2012 in the USA and on the 10th February 2012 in Europe.

Gameplay

Power Walking - One of the new events

The game is said to include a variety of over 50 sports including athletics, aquatics and table tennis, new dream events (which are Olympic events set in iconic Mario and Sonic worlds, with exaggerated gameplay), as well as brand new sports along with featuring all of the original sports that appeared four years ago.

Like the previous games in the series, Mario and Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games is expected to feature real life Olympic venues, including the Olympic Stadiums to be featured in the actual 2012 London Olympic Games.

History

Boxart for the DS Original

The Mario and Sonic at the Olympic game series contains some of the only games to feature characters from the Mario and Sonic franchises together. This series is also one of the only franchises that resulted as a cooperative effort from both Nintendo and Sega. The first game in the series, Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games was released in late 2007 to coincide with the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. The game received mixed reviews with metacritic scores of 67 and 70 for Wii and DS, respectively.

The sequel, Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games, was released in 2009 to coincide with the 2010 winter Olympic games held in Vancouver, Canada. It fared slightly better with reviews averaging out at 72 and 76 for the Wii and DS, respectively, on metacritic. The series has sold well, selling over 19 million copies to date.

Characters

Team Mario

• Mario
• Luigi
• Princess Peach
• Princess Daisy
• Yoshi
• Wario
• Waluigi
• Bowser
• Donkey Kong
• Bowser Jr.

Team Sonic

• Sonic
• Dr. Eggman
• Knuckles
• Tails
• Amy
• Blaze
• Shadow
• Vector
• Metal Sonic
• Silver

Rivals

• Birdo
• Dry Bones
• Dry Bowser
• King Boo
• Eggman Nega
• E-123 Omega
• Jet the Hawk
• Rouge the Bat

Events

There are many different events in this game with all different control methods. The events that are in the game, include:

• 20km Race Walk
• 1000m Kayak
• 100m Breaststroke (Aquatics)
• Balance Beam
• 110m Hurdles
• Badminton
• BMX
• Double Trap Shooting
• Field Hockey
• Rhythmic Gymnastics
• Trampoline
• 1500m
• 3000m Steeplechase
• Long Jump
• Triple Jump
• Pole Vault
• Shot Put
• Hammer Throw
• Javelin Throw
• Marathon
• 100m
• 100m Freestyle
• 100m Backstroke
• Synchronised 10m Platform Diving
• Synchronised Swimming Duet
• Synchronised Swimming Team
• Water Polo
• 10km Marathon Swim
• Archery Individual
• Archery Team
• Beach Volleyball
• Tennis Singles
• Badminton Doubles
• Table Tennis Doubles
• Basketball
• Judo
• Taekwondo
• Wrestling
• Boxing
• Fencing-epee
• Horizontal Bar
• Rings
• Rhythmic Ribbon
• Floor
• Omnium Cycling
• Sprint Cycling
• Keirin Cycling
• Canoe Slalom (Pair)
• Rowing Quadruple Sculls
• Sailing-470 (Pair)
• 25m Rapid Fire Pistol
• Triathlon
• Modern Pentathlon
• Football
• Hockey
• Handball
• Weightlifting
• Show Jumping (Equestrian)

Development

Mario and Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games has been developed by SEGA Japan, and is distributed by SEGA in North America and Europe, and by Nintendo in Japan. A release date will be announced later in the year, and based on the timescale of its two predecessors, this is likely to be sometime in late 2011 or early 2012. A demo has also been launched in the NA eShop on Jan. 26th, showing this game to be finishing stages in early 2011

Demo

On March 1 2012, a demo of the 3DS version of the game was released on the Nintendo eShop. 5 events are playable on the Demo. They are 25m Rapid Fire pistol, Soccer , Trampoline, 50m Backstroke and BMX. The player cannot choose what characters they use or their name. The player's name is always M&S. Each event has four possible characters to play as. Each event has a certain character type which the characters come from. The 25m Rapid Fire Pistol uses the Tricksters class, The Football event uses the Wild Ones class, The Trampoline event uses the Challengers class, The 100m Backstroke event uses the Girls class and the BMX event uses the Heroes class. The demo can only be played 30 times once downloaded.

Reception

Nintendo Power gave the game a score of 7.

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