Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games is one of the best games on the Nintendo Wii, no matter what all the critics are saying. Since this is an Olympic game you'll be competing in various olympic events from the 400m to the at first confusing Archery, you will surely find several events you like in this game. There are a total of 24 events, while 20 events are real, the other 4 are fantasy-like events. First Dream Race is basically Mario Kart but on foot instead of you racing on karts, Dream Platform has you skydiving while going through rings you would see ina Sonic games to collect points, Dream Fencing is Fencing but with Mario-style super moves, Dream Table Tennis is exactly like dream fencing but table tennis. As you would guess there are motion-sensing controls in this game and how do they work, you ask, they work great, they include shaking the Wii-mote and the Nunchuk Up and Down to run (you will use this method through the whole game), to jump you will flick the Wii-mote up, while it all can be confusing at first after a couple of tries with all the events they will be like second nature to you. My only complaint is that after you unlock every event and get every badge, there's not that much replayability unless you start a new game (you can have up to 4 saved games which is great) but still this is a great game to add to your Wii collection.
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