Mario and Sonic Olympics Promo Video

Almost two weeks ago, we wrote up a preview of the Wii game Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games, which will be available from Friday. Sega have put together a great video of the events. In the preview I talked about how the controls attempt to model the sports themselves; around the 20-second mark of the video, you can see people frantically flapping the Wiimote and nunchuck – that’s how you sprint and how some of the characters swim. It’s fine for the 100m sprint… a bit tiring for the forearms but over quickly. 400m hurdles is another matter entirely! Perhaps us girls just don’t have the wrist stamina required…

Further in, at 1:30 you can catch a brief glimpse of fencing and soon after, a nice clip of the archery section. At 2:30 there are some very strange actions going on. I have no idea what they were doing but it’s all good clean fun, I’m sure.

Finally, at 3:30 you can see that they managed to salvage some footage of of my interview. There’s a highly embarrassing clip of me looking strange and trying to speak coherently in front of a video camera. It’s complicated, I tells ya! But that’s what makes it a great game and, as I said last time, definitely my pick for Christmas.