In lure of the forthcoming celebration of the 2010 winter Olympic games to be held in Vancouver, Canada, Sega has once again joined forces with Nintendo to develop a game title suitable for the occasion. ‘Sonic and Mario at the Olympic Games’ will be available exclusively for the Wii and Nintendo DS video game consoles, starting next fall. For this project Sega of America, along with Shigeru Miyamoto from Nintendo, have put together two separate teams to work on the two versions of the game title, one for each console. This strategy aims to create a more unique and defined playing experience given the resources and affinities of each console. Taking into consideration that the first release of ‘Sonic and Mario at the Olympic Games’ was a huge hit with over 12 million copies sold, the up and coming second issue should not have any difficulty finding it’s way into our homes.
The game title is loyal to the traditional winter sports by including games like alpine skiing, bobsled, and speed skating. The creators have gone as far as to visit Vancouver and take images of the real scenery, to be included in all the real sport venues which will take place in the next Olympics. Richmond Olympic Oval, home to the 2010 speed skating competition, and Whistler Sliding Center, home of the bobsled competition will all become part of the playing experience in the new Sonic title. Their efforts aim to bring the players at home with an enticing experience that would sympathize with players young and old. This has been the first time Sega has been given a license to work on the Mario character for a video game. As Osamu Ohashi said “With Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Summer Games, many of the events were similar on both Wii and Nintendo DS, It was our first time working with Nintendo and the Mario characters and our first Olympic license. This time, we've had additional time to bring out the personalities of these characters by adding special moves and animations."
The two developer teams are composed of 100 people each. With enough time in their hands to able to include features like sharing games with your friends wirelessly, by downloading and then playing together. Sega aims to involve the player in the events by enabling the player to use his entire body to control the characters, plus a four player cooperative play will also be added to the features list. The list of features is sure to continue, as the developer team adds more games to the package in the countdown to the winter Olympics of 2010.
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