ONM’s M&S Winter Olympics Preview
Tristan Oliver | July 5, 2009
Six more Screenshots Inside
In the UK, where the Olympic clash of the video game titans is wildly popular, the Official Nintendo Magazine has posted a new preview of the franchise’s upcoming Winter variant, Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games.
ONM had played three of the game’s varying challenges, and seemed pretty content with all of them:
The first was downhill skiing, which works well. As in the previous game, you can choose to play with either a Remote or a Remote and a Nunchuk, depending on how many controllers you’ve got knocking about. We went for the Remote and Nunchuk option, which requires you to hold both controllers upward in front of you like ski poles. To turn you tilt both controllers to the left or right and to go faster you tilt them both forward. It seems a bit basic but the fun’s in the way you’re supposed to play the game. If you do the proper motions a real skier would perform (leaning left and right and crouching to pick up speed), the natural position the controllers end up in make it all work as it’s supposed to.
It’s the same deal with speed skating. Despite the name, this event isn’t all about how fast you can waggle the controllers. Instead, it’s based on timing. You swing your arms left and right (the same way a speed skater would in real life), but you have to do it to the proper rhythm. Do it too slow and obviously you won’t pick up speed, too fast and you’ll mess up the rhythm and stumble.
You can also read up on ONM’s unique experience with M&S’s Bobsleigh mode at the full preview page.
Along with the impressions, ONM also published six screenshots–all of them appearing to be new–from the Wii edition of the game. We have those below.
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Doesn’t look too bad for what technically is just another minigame collection. Hopefully, it’ll be as fun as the other one and have a bit more depth. Just wish that the next Mario and Sonic would be a platformer….
ONM though are always wildly optimistic in most of their previews though so best to take this with a pinch of salt.
Wow, Sonic’s model looks a bit like his Archie look. It’s probably just me.
GIVE ME MY GAMEPLAY DAMMIT!
General: You’re right. Sonic looks very Archie-esque pulling off a SEGASonic pose. :S
GIVE US A NEW CHARACTER DAMMIT !
Edwin: I agree. We’ve got Silver, DK, and Metal. It’s a been a while, not to mention, Sonic & Mario are uneven. It’s high time we got confirmation of a new character.
They put sonic’s mouth in the midlle again. Most displeased about this.
Yeah, it actually looks like the “Archie Sonic”, hhhmmm I don’t like that sonics mounth is in the middle, but who cares if the game is fun!
@Liam: cus the wii hasn`t got decint power
Soul : Ya know by now they would of shown us the other 12 character`s artwork by now as Silver`s & maybe an new character from the mario like rosalina (I`ll be happy if she made the cut)
Guess What? I Found out who’s our 2nd New Mario Character (not making it up). It’s Bowser Jr. (my mario fav). I Heard this comment on the Mario Wiki [Talk], and said this (but this is real): ”When i went to the Sydney Supernova 2009, i saw the game. Bowser Jr. and Silver the Hedgehog are comfirmed playables. i don’t have pictures to prove it, because i don’t have a camera. but Bowser Jr. and Silver are Confirmed Playables”.
no joke. go to Google, and type Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games Bowser Jr., and find [Talk]. then finally go to Playable Characters?
I really wouldn’t take that as fact. Mario Wiki is the same place some guy put up the hoax Birdo pic.
I doesn’t use WM+ right?
It’s Because he dose’nt have a camera to take the pic, and prove it to us. i swear to u guys that B Jr. is surely confirmed along with Silver.
Pur : Which ticked me off >:(
Edwin Shy: