Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games

Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games is a Wii U game, and is the fourth installment in the Mario & Sonic series. It includes a variety of events from the winter games such as skiing, figure skating and curling. As the title implies, the game is centered around the 2014 Olympic Winter Games, taking place in Sochi, Russia. Different events uses the Wii Remote Plus controller, Wii U GamePad, or both. As the other games in the series, it features realistic events with ones in Mario's and Sonic's worlds. As the game is a Wii U exclusive, Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games is the first in the series to not have a handheld version. It is also the first game in the series published by Nintendo outside of Japan and South Korea rather than SEGA, who published the first three games.

Modes
The game features five overall modes total.


 * Single Match
 * Medley Mania
 * Worldwide VS
 * Legends Showdown
 * Action & Answer Tour

Olympic events
The game is to feature 16 Olympic events total.


 * Snowboard Cross
 * 4-man Bobsleigh
 * Biathlon
 * Snowboard Slopestyle
 * Speed Skating 500m
 * Alpine Skiing Downhill
 * Ski Jumping Large Hill
 * Freestyle Skiing Moguls
 * Freestyle Ski Cross
 * Snowboard Parallel Giant Slalom
 * Figure Skating Singles
 * Figure Skating Pairs
 * Curling
 * Ice Hockey
 * Skeleton
 * Short Track 1000m

Dream events
The game is confirmed to have eight total Dream Events.


 * Winter Sports Champion Race (Mini Russia Island)
 * Roller Coaster Bobsleigh (Speed Highway)
 * Groove Pipe Snowboard (Mushroom Bridge)
 * Snow Day Street Hockey (Delfino Plaza)
 * Hole-In-One Curling (Green Hill Zone)
 * Figure Skating Spectacular (Dream Skating Center)
 * Snowball Scrimmage (Snow Colosseum)
 * Bullet Bill Sledge Race (Sweet Mountain)

Mario characters

 * Mario
 * Luigi
 * Peach
 * Daisy
 * Yoshi
 * Bowser
 * Bowser Jr.
 * Donkey Kong
 * Wario
 * Waluigi

Sonic characters

 * Sonic
 * Tails
 * Amy
 * Shadow
 * Dr. Eggman
 * Knuckles
 * Blaze
 * Vector
 * Silver
 * Metal Sonic

Other

 * Mii

Non-playable characters

 * Toads
 * Shy Guy
 * Pianta
 * Birdos
 * Chao
 * Omochao
 * Koopa Troopas
 * False Bowser

Bosses

 * Dry Bowser
 * Birdo
 * Kamek
 * King Boo
 * Eggman Nega
 * Rouge the Bat
 * Jet the Hawk
 * E-123 Omega