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Mario & Sonic at the Olympics

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Looks like it could be pretty good... if you liked Wii Sports and that sort of game, of course. Sega seems to think it's a pretty good game, they expect to sell 4 million copies. They were already sold out at Target when I went yesterday evening.

Anyone play it?
 
I just found out today it was released. I'm on the fence about this game. I wouldn't have any interest in this game if it wasn't for the "Mario & Sonic" part. I'll end up buying it maybe later today if it's in stock at Target.
 
I'm considering picking this up, but I rarely use my Wii at all as it is. Any time I get free for any gaming is spent playing Halo 3, but this looks fun. It looks like a fun party game.

Those that do pick it up, please keep us updated.
 
I got it. It's not bad so far, I wouldn't say it's great though. One of the supposed advantages of this over Wii Sports is that it has so many different activities - but when you consider that many of them are variations of the same few activities, it's really not much different from Wii Sports - it only had 5 games, but it also had 3 practice modes for each, and each practice mode was quite entertaining in and of itself. So Mario & Sonic has 20+, Wii Sports had 20. Mario & Sonic has "missions", which I think are an attempt to be similar to the Wii Sports practice modes, but they're really just the regular event with certain goals as opposed to an entirely different playing experience as in Wii Sports.

I guess maybe I was hoping for too much if I was expecting it to be far and away better than Wii Sports, because Wii Sports is really a fantastic game despite its flaws. If I get as much play time out of this game as I did out of Wii Sports, it'll certainly be worth it. It certainly won't replace Halo 3 or Fire Emblem for me, but it'll be great to pull out when friends come over or when I want to play with the wife.
 
Originally posted by: mugs
I got it. It's not bad so far, I wouldn't say it's great though. One of the supposed advantages of this over Wii Sports is that it has so many different activities - but when you consider that many of them are variations of the same few activities, it's really not much different from Wii Sports - it only had 5 games, but it also had 3 practice modes for each, and each practice mode was quite entertaining in and of itself. So Mario & Sonic has 20+, Wii Sports had 20. Mario & Sonic has "missions", which I think are an attempt to be similar to the Wii Sports practice modes, but they're really just the regular event with certain goals as opposed to an entirely different playing experience as in Wii Sports.

I guess maybe I was hoping for too much if I was expecting it to be far and away better than Wii Sports, because Wii Sports is really a fantastic game despite its flaws. If I get as much play time out of this game as I did out of Wii Sports, it'll certainly be worth it. It certainly won't replace Halo 3 or Fire Emblem for me, but it'll be great to pull out when friends come over or when I want to play with the wife.
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How's the table tennis compared to Wii Sports Tennis?
 
Originally posted by: tdawg
Originally posted by: mugs
I got it. It's not bad so far, I wouldn't say it's great though. One of the supposed advantages of this over Wii Sports is that it has so many different activities - but when you consider that many of them are variations of the same few activities, it's really not much different from Wii Sports - it only had 5 games, but it also had 3 practice modes for each, and each practice mode was quite entertaining in and of itself. So Mario & Sonic has 20+, Wii Sports had 20. Mario & Sonic has "missions", which I think are an attempt to be similar to the Wii Sports practice modes, but they're really just the regular event with certain goals as opposed to an entirely different playing experience as in Wii Sports.

I guess maybe I was hoping for too much if I was expecting it to be far and away better than Wii Sports, because Wii Sports is really a fantastic game despite its flaws. If I get as much play time out of this game as I did out of Wii Sports, it'll certainly be worth it. It certainly won't replace Halo 3 or Fire Emblem for me, but it'll be great to pull out when friends come over or when I want to play with the wife.
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How's the table tennis compared to Wii Sports Tennis?
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Not as good. It's not even as good as the table tennis minigame in Wii Play. Table tennis is the worst sport in Mario & Sonic.
 
Picked it up on Wednesday. What is this leaderboard thing that people are talking about? It's ok so far. It does get really tiring with the games. I played a whole 2 hours and my arms are sore.
 
The game is very, very meh. The track and field events are both tiring and extremely easy to beat. The whole wiimote/nunchuk drumming thing was a cute gimmick a year ago, now its tired and stupid to build an entire game around it. I suppose it has to take into account the weak arms of little kiddies, so any reasonable adult who plays it can easily max out their speed at the expense your arm muscles. The hammer throw and javelin are marginallly fun, but only for a little bit. The skeet shooting has NOTHING on wii play, hell, it's more exciting to pick out channels on the wii menu. The fencing is also retarded.

The archery, on the other hand, is just plain brilliant, and is quite the odd diamond in the rough.

I will give them at least some credit for trying to add at least a little something more into each game to make it a test of skill other than blindly drumming the controllers, but that little tweak in each game is also so ridiculously easy to max out that its practically a non-factor.

The presentation is also pretty bad. The graphics are passable. The overscan is HUGE though. You pick an event, then wait far too long for it to load. Click through a cheering screen, a ready screen, drum your controllers, etc. Then after the event is over you get a replay, a cheering screen, two score screens, another replay screen and then a loading screen. After the loading, you get an intro animation, cheering screen, ready screen.....

Its also as tiring clicking (or waiting to be able to click) through all those stupid screens as it is to actually play the game.

4 million copies my ass. This is no Wii sports. Wii sports was a finely crafted, well thought out, nuanced game. This is just a bunch of characters mindllessly thrown together with a bunch of mindless mini games.
 
Hmmm, i was looking at picking this one up, maybe Ill wait a bit and pick it up on ebay for cheap early next year or so.

 
I picked the game up while I was in Fry's today but couldn't convince myself to buy it. After reading all the reviews/comments I think I'm just going to skip this one.

Why is it Sega can't put together a decent game anymore? This is the second Wii game by Sega I almost bought. Maybe Nights will be good.
 
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