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Mario & Sonic at The Olympic Games - First Solid Details

SEGA Unveils the game's events, control scheme and more

By Filip Truta, Games Editor

27th of September 2007, 10:20 GMT

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SEGA Europe and SEGA of America have teamed up today to reveal some details on their upcoming frenetic title, Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games. As everyone knows, many Wii games present a small degree of difficulty when it comes to playing them with the Wii Remote. As such, SEGA has confirmed that controls for this game have been specifically created to replicate the actions that offer best results for each event. This and other details, below.

First of all, fans of the plummer and the hedgehog should know that both Wii and DS installments
are packed with interactive features that include 20 authentic Olympic events - played out in stylized Olympic venues. As far as the Wii version is concerned, gamers will be using both the Wii Reemote and Nunchuck to control one of 16 available characters, equally arriving from the two main characters' worlds. (8-Mario and 8-Sonic).

So here are the events in which gamers will compete, as confirmed by SEGA:

Fencing - Individual epée
Archery
Shooting - Skeet
Gymnastics - Trampoline
Gymnastics - Vault
Field - High Jump
Field - Pole Vault
Field - Long Jump
Field - Triple Jump
Field - Javelin Throw
Field - Hammer Throw
Rowing - Single Sculls
Table Tennis - Singles
Aquatics - 100m Freestyle
Aquatics - 4x100m Freestyle
Track - 110m and 400m Hurdles
Track - 4x100m Relay
Track -100m and 400m

As for the control system itself, gamers will have to perform actions like swinging the Wii Remote to simulate hammer throw, or notching the Nunchuk to shoot arrows, and replicating swimming strokes.

There will be four playing styles to choose from. After choosing one, players can decide their game strategy: all-around, technical, speed, and power. An example provided by SEGA themselves...: Mario and Amy (All-around), Peach and Tails (Technical), Sonic and Yoshi (Speed), and Knuckles and Bowser (Power).

OK, now remember that Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games launches across Europe on November 23rd, this tear for the Wii, and in Q1 of 2008 for the DS. The game is being published by SEGA across Europe and North America, and by Nintendo in Japan.

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