Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games

"Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games wasn't a big title for me; I played the console version for a few hours before placing it on my shelf. To be honest, I'd never really thought about it again until I got this assignment."

Ringing the changes.

If minigame compilations rarely seem as good on handhelds as they do on consoles, it’s probably because it’s so much less practical to get them working in four-player mode. Rounding up four controllers for a spot of split-screen action on Wii is one thing, but finding four DS owners, each with a copy of the game, is less likely. ...

At its surface, Mario & Sonic DS looks like it'd be a carbon copy of the Wii version, and nearly identical in many ways. You've got your core Olympic disciplines, dream events to throw in a little more "gamey" content in there, you've got the Mario and Sonic franchise characters, and the backdrop of the 2010 Olympic games in Vancouver.