The Game Everyone has waited for, sadly a huge disapointment
The plot of the game is fairly straight forward, Team Nintnedo and Team Sega are facing each other down for the first time in history, at the 2008 Olympic Games. Among the game's best features is the wide variety of Sega and Nintendo characters the player can pick from including such fan favorites as Sonic, Tales, Mario, Wario, Luigi, Dr. Eggman, Knuckles and Bowser, or if you want you are allowed to use your Miis.
The over all game play is essentally a carbon copy of Wii Sports, except with Olympic games such as Ping Pong, Fencing, Skeet Shooting, and Swimming. In the long run these games are fairly generic, and can quickly become boaring after a certain amount of play, however the additional games and wide variety of characters is a vast improvement over the rather bland Wii Sports.
However, the one part of this game that ultimatly holds it back are the controls. Each game requires a different method of using the Wii-Mote, with some requireing the Nunchuck and others requiring simply the Wii-Mote. The controls are completly broken, and the vaious moves that the player has to do with the Wii-Mote makes preforming even basic moves, such as blocking in Fencing and Shooting in Skeet Shooting harder then it should be. Mario and Sonic is one of those games that would be better off using a normal controller then the Wii Mote.
Over all Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games is a classic gamer's dream come true, finally you will be able to settle the age old question of who is better: Mario or Sonic. However the crippled controls effectivly destroy much of the fun that could be had with this game