Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games (Wii)

This article is about Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games for the Wii. For the Nintendo DS version of the game, see Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games (Nintendo DS).

Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games
For alternate box art, see the related gallery.
Developers	Sega, Racjin Nintendo SPD Group No.4
Publishers	Sega (NA, EU, OC) Nintendo (JP, SK, HK, TW)
Platform	Wii
Release dates	October 13, 2009 October 15, 2009 October 16, 2009 November 5, 2009 November 5, 2009 November 5, 2009 November 19, 2009 2009[?]
Languages	English Japanese Dutch French (Europe) German Italian Korean Spanish (Europe)
Genre	Sports
Ratings	ESRB: - Everyone[?] CERO: - All ages[?] PEGI: - Three years and older[?] USK: - All ages[?] ClassInd: - General audience[?] GRAC: - All ages[?] ACB: - General[?]
Mode	Varies according to the event that is played in the game
Format	Wii: Optical disc
Input	Wii: Wii Remote Wii Remote and Nunchuk Wii Balance Board
Serial code	RVL-ROLE-USA

Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games is a sports game for the Wii with a Nintendo DS version of the game released as well. Both games are a follow-up to Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games. The game is produced under license from the International Olympic Committee in relation to the Olympic Winter Games taking place at Vancouver in 2010.

Like the previous installment, this game is a collaboration between Sega and Nintendo featuring characters from both the Super Mario franchise and the Sonic the Hedgehog series.

Although Sega was handling most of the development for both versions of this game, as it did for the original Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games, they were also handling publishing/marketing duties for all territories outside of Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan while Nintendo has done publishing/marketing duties for Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan themselves.

Overview

The Wii version employs the Wii Remote controls, as well as the Wii Balance Board. The game features a Festival mode where the player starts from the opening to the closing ceremony. In the Festival mode, the player can choose to play an individual festival, where the player faces off against 7 other CPU characters, or a team festival, where the player can choose three other teammates to play.

New to the game is a marketplace that allows the player to purchase various items such as clothes and accessories for the player's Mii, tunes from both series, and customizable snowboards. Players can purchase these items using Star Tokens, which earn based on their performance. Also, the gallery for Olympic trivia has now been replaced with the Library.

Also, all authentic (real-life based events) are unlocked from the start. Dream Events are in this game and all of them (excluding 2) need to be unlocked.

The aforementioned Festival Mode, is a special adventure mode where the participants must compete with some boss characters from the Super Mario and Sonic series in various events. Both the DS and the Wii versions take place in a place known as Christmas Village.

Characters

All the main participants on the Wii character selection screen, including the Mii.

All of the characters from the previous game, including Miis for the Wii version, return. There are also four new characters who were not present in Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games, namely Donkey Kong, Metal Sonic, Bowser Jr., and Silver. Retaining the first game's style, all playable characters are unlocked from the start (including new participants).

Playable characters

Team Mario

Icon	Name	Type	Statistics	Special skill	Emblem
	Mario	All-Around	Power   Speed   Skill   Stamina   Acceleration   Jumping   Technique   Total: 318	Spin / Jump Dash
	Luigi	All-Around	Power   Speed   Skill   Stamina   Acceleration   Jumping   Technique   Total: 318	Luigi Rocket / Green Fire Rocket
	Peach	Skill	Power   Speed   Skill   Stamina   Acceleration   Jumping   Technique   Total: 320	Mid-Air Float
	Daisy	Speed	Power   Speed   Skill   Stamina   Acceleration   Jumping   Technique   Total: 320	Daisy Trampoline / Flower Dash
	Yoshi	Speed	Power   Speed   Skill   Stamina   Acceleration   Jumping   Technique   Total: 320	Flutter Jump / Thrash Dash
	Wario	Power	Power   Speed   Skill   Stamina   Acceleration   Jumping   Technique   Total: 320	Wario Waft
	Waluigi	Skill	Power   Speed   Skill   Stamina   Acceleration   Jumping   Technique   Total: 320	Air Swim / Screw Dash
	Bowser	Power	Power   Speed   Skill   Stamina   Acceleration   Jumping   Technique   Total: 319	Spinning Shell / Flame Dash
	Bowser Jr. (new)	All-Around	Power   Speed   Skill   Stamina   Acceleration   Jumping   Technique   Total: 316	Back Spin Shell
	Donkey Kong (new)	Power	Power   Speed   Skill   Stamina   Acceleration   Jumping   Technique   Total: 319	Hand Slap Dash

Team Sonic

Icon	Name	Type	Statistics	Special Skill	Emblem
	Sonic	Speed	Power   Speed   Skill   Stamina   Acceleration   Jumping   Technique   Total: 280	Spin Dash
	Tails	Skill	Power   Speed   Skill   Stamina   Acceleration   Jumping   Technique   Total: 320	Tailspin Flight / Propeller Dash / Spin Dash
	Knuckles	Power	Power   Speed   Skill   Stamina   Acceleration   Jumping   Technique   Total: 320	Screw Driver / Spin Dash
	Amy	All-Around	Power   Speed   Skill   Stamina   Acceleration   Jumping   Technique   Total: 290	Pink Typhoon / Rose Spin / Spin Dash
	Blaze	All-Around	Power   Speed   Skill   Stamina   Acceleration   Jumping   Technique   Total: 305	Quick Tornado / Fire Dash / Fire Boost
	Shadow	Speed	Power   Speed   Skill   Stamina   Acceleration   Jumping   Technique   Total: 285	Chaos Boost / Spin Dash
	Silver (new)	Skill	Power   Speed   Skill   Stamina   Acceleration   Jumping   Technique   Total: 315	Levitate / Teleport Dash
	Vector	Power	Power   Speed   Skill   Stamina   Acceleration   Jumping   Technique   Total: 320	Head Slide / Donut Spin Dash
	Dr. Eggman	Skill	Power   Speed   Skill   Stamina   Acceleration   Jumping   Technique   Total: 305	Egg Spin
	Metal Sonic (new)	Speed	Power   Speed   Skill   Stamina   Acceleration   Jumping   Technique   Total: 285	Air Boost

Other

• Mii

It is possible to customize the outfit of the Miis in the game. Aside from differently colored suits, the Miis can also wear outfits that resemble the ones of the regular playable characters and a few bosses. Playable character costumes are unlockable by getting 1st in five events as the character. The player can buy equipment through the store in the game and unlike Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games, the Miis' stats gets altered depending on the equipment they wear.

Mii costumes

Super Mario franchise

There is a total of 16 different costumes for Miis based on characters from the Super Mario universe.

• Mario
• Luigi
• Princess Peach
• Princess Daisy
• Yoshi
• Wario
• Waluigi
• Bowser
• Bowser Jr.
• Donkey Kong
• Bee Mario
• Fire Mario
• Birdo
• Dry Bones
• Dry Bowser
• Diddy Kong

Sonic the Hedgehog series

Like the Super Mario universe, 16 characters from the Sonic the Hedgehog universe also appear as costumes for the Miis.

• Sonic the Hedgehog
• Miles "Tails" Prower
• Knuckles the Echidna
• Dr. Eggman
• Amy Rose
• Shadow the Hedgehog
• Vector the Crocodile
• Blaze the Cat
• Silver the Hedgehog
• Metal Sonic
• Super Sonic
• Big the Cat
• Charmy Bee
• Espio the Chameleon
• Rouge the Bat
• E-123 Omega

VIP members

These characters only appear as cameos and tells the player that they have been watching the player in certain events. Pausing the game and hitting the when they are spotted gives the player 100 Star Points. The VIP members are:

Super Mario	Sonic the Hedgehog	Other
Pianta Birdo Penguin	Big the Cat Chaos Cream the Rabbit	Santa Claus

When the player spots Birdo and Big the Cat, they will also be given costumes.

When the game is played during the month of December, Santa Claus also appears as a VIP. Unlike other VIP characters, Santa gives 300 Star Points instead of 100.

Referees

Super Mario	Sonic the Hedgehog
Toad Lakitu Shy Guy	Cream the Rabbit Charmy Bee Espio the Chameleon

Audience members

Super Mario	Sonic the Hedgehog
Koopa Troopas Goombas Dry Bones Toads Shy Guys Penguin (certain events)	Flickies Cuckies Peckies Pickies Chao Omochao Hero Chao Dark Chao

Rivals

Super Mario rivals

Icon	Name	Type	Event(s)
	Big Bullet Bill	Speed	Skeleton (Individual Festival) Bobsleigh (Team Festival)
	King Boo	Skill	Alpine Skiing Downhill Alpine Skiing Giant Slalom (Individual Festival)
	Dry Bowser	Power	Ice Hockey
	Dry Bones	All-Around	Ice Hockey (alongside Dry Bowser) Curling (Team Festival)

Sonic the Hedgehog rivals

Icon	Name	Type	Event(s)
	E-123 Omega	Power	Speed Skating 500m (Individual Festival) Short Track Relay (Team Festival)
	Jet the Hawk	Speed	Snowboard Cross
	Rouge the Bat	All-Around	Figure Skating
	Eggman Nega	Skill	Ski Cross

Events

Unlike the first game, the number of players is selected before the event, so events where players alternate turns (which would have allowed multiplayer using a single Wii Remote) require a Wii Remote for each player.

Olympic events

Image	Event	Location	Description
	Alpine Skiing - Downhill	Whistler Creekside	Navigate your character through the gates withing the course. In these events, each time you miss a gate, a time penalty will be added to your time.