Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (DS)

I purchased this for my daughter from blockbusters for £29.99p; I probably play on it more than her loll. I will tell you a bit about the game. To start off you need to create data, this consists of a name you want to use, and a flag, which is a country you want to play as. You then click on the data you have entered and then you are ready to start. You then have 4 options in front of you: Single player ------------------- In here you have the choice of: Single match which is where you can chose a single event you would like to play on, which helps you improve at a certain event that you struggle to do, and it also builds ...  Read the complete review

Being the Dad of an incredibly mischievious two year old boy, that likes to break things, I have found that handheld consoles are the way to go for me. If I have my Wii or Xbox out whilst he is around, I am just asking for trouble. Despite this, I've played my DS only sporadically throughout the past year as my PSP has been the choice portable system for me. However, this Christmas, when all of my nieces and nephews got together with their DS's, I managed to play Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games and it re-ignited my love for the DS all over again. I had chiefly heard about this game via it's superb reviews of the Wii version, but I imagined that the DS ...  Read the complete review

Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games is the first outing of both Nintendo & Sega's flagship characters in the same game. What a game it is too. For anyone who ever player Olympic Gold in the past the premise for some of the events will be familiar. For anyone who hasn't, they will be easy to get used to & simple to do. There are lots of different events. They are controlled in different ways. Sometimes with the stylus. Sometimes with the buttons & sometimes with both. 16 characters feature in this game with an even split of 8 characters from the Mario world & 8 from Sonic's. The characters all have their own strengths & ...  Read the complete review

Having been slightly addicted to my daughter's Nintendo DS over Christmas, another game I was playing on it was Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games. We have this game on the Wii and it's one of my favourites so I was quite excited to play it on the DS. My daughter had told me it was brilliant, so console in hand (again) the poor girl lost her prize possession after 9pm each night before Christmas. ** What is the idea of the game? ** Mario and Sonic at the Olympics is based on all the characters intermingling between Mario and Sonic characters we all know and love, taking part in various Olympic sports. There are the traditional games such as ...  Read the complete review

Mario and Sonic together? Doing sport? Sounds good but how good is it really? Innovation Not the most innovative game in the market, but it does make good use of the DS touchscreen. The touchscreen is used well in most of the different games available but the lack of wifi in which you could have gone head to head with players from different countries really drags the score down. 6/10 Graphics The game has nice cartoon style graphics that effectively illustrate the theme of the olympics. The characters look really vivid, and look exactly how you would picture them with the exception of bowser, who looks like he was ...  Read the complete review