Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games
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| Developer(s) | Sega Sports R&D |
| Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
| Director(s) | Hiroshi Miyamoto Takamichi Nitta |
| Producer(s) | Nobuya Ohashi Eigo Kasahara Takehiro Ishida Toyokazu Nonaka |
| Designer(s) | Naohiro Hirao |
| Programmer(s) | Mitsuru Takahashi |
| Artist(s) | Hiroshi Kanazawa |
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Sega Digital Studio
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| Series | Mario & Sonic |
| Platform(s) | Wii U |
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| Genre(s) | Sports, party |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games (マリオ&ソニック AT ソチオリンピック Mario ando Sonikku ATO Sochi Orinpikku?, lit. "Mario & Sonic at the Sochi Olympics) (stylized as Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games: Sochi 2014) is a crossover sports/party video game for the Wii U, the first for the console. It was unveiled on May 17, 2013, is the fourth game in the Mario & Sonic series, and is the official video game for the 2014 Winter Olympics being held in Sochi. It was released on November 8, 2013 in Europe, November 9, 2013 in Australia, November 15, 2013 in North America, and December 5, 2013 in Japan. It the first title in the series to feature an online multiplayer mode, and the first to be published by Nintendo globally, as previous titles were published by Sega outside Japan. Unlike previous titles, the game is solely on home console, and does not have a portable version.
This game formed the second part in Sega's exclusivity agreement with Nintendo after Sonic Lost World back on mid-October 2013 but followed by Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric and Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal on November/December 2014. Subsequently, a sequel game—Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games—was announced for release in February 2016.
The players can only choose one of twenty characters that return from the previous two games, participate in a series of sixteen Olympic events. Events are controlled either using the Wii Remote MotionPlus and Nunchuk controllers, or the Wii U GamePad, with some events, such as the biathlon, utilising both control methods, for the Wii U version. Along with returning events, such as skiing, bobsledding and curling, new events include figure skating pairs and snowboarding slope style. Like in the previous games, players can also participate in one of eight fictional Dream Events, including a new mixed event in which cases can be simultaneously played with snowboarding, skiing and bobsledding players. These events are played in places from the Mario and Sonic franchises. A new addition to this game is the Action & Answer Tour, where players answer questions to score points while competing in various events hosted by Orbot and Cubot from Sonic Colors and Sonic Lost World.
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