Sega continues to pour money into lavishly rendered trailers for Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games, and we must admit it's working a little. We, who have been less than impressed with Sonic and his games recently, found the dramatic music and quick editing of this new trailer to be effective at getting us to cheer for some ridiculous-looking video game characters as they compete with each other at Olympic sports.
Only now, after closing the window and safely removing ourselves from the video's thrall, do we remember that we were just looking at Yoshi playing ping-pong with Tails. We felt like Games Convention attendees for a second there, though!
If only Sega (and Nintendo, of course) would put this kind of effort into the real game.
[Via NeoGAF]
Reader Comments (14)
Posted: Sep 17th 2007 3:30PM (Unverified) said
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Yeahhhh... no. Keep it clean out there. Or face mildly irritating consequences!
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Yeahhhh... no. Keep it clean out there. Or face mildly irritating consequences!
Posted: Sep 17th 2007 4:00PM Mr Khan said
@ JC
That makes no sense, at least leave the comment for context...
This is one of the few games that i've ever been on the fence about. It's friggin Mario and Sonic (and all their auxiliary characters, no less), but i also don't need another Wii Sports (or do i?)
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That makes no sense, at least leave the comment for context...
This is one of the few games that i've ever been on the fence about. It's friggin Mario and Sonic (and all their auxiliary characters, no less), but i also don't need another Wii Sports (or do i?)
Posted: Sep 17th 2007 4:04PM Mr Khan said
nvm, i see that samfish made that comment
i can totally use my imagination now.
And also, upon seeing the movie, i do think i've leaned a bit more towards buying this game. Even if it is just Wii Sports style, all those characters and all those events...
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i can totally use my imagination now.
And also, upon seeing the movie, i do think i've leaned a bit more towards buying this game. Even if it is just Wii Sports style, all those characters and all those events...
Posted: Sep 17th 2007 4:20PM hvnlysoldr said
It's like a Mario/Wii Sports with Smash's principle of fan service.
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Posted: Sep 17th 2007 4:44PM RupeeClock said
So I see that Wario, Blaze, Espio and Shadow are in as well, interesting.
It's hard to make out, but I believe you can see Daisy standing next to Bowser at the very beginning. The hair, yellow skirt and figure seem to fit.
Really though, seeing Luigi and Shadow run side by side is really damn weird though.
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It's hard to make out, but I believe you can see Daisy standing next to Bowser at the very beginning. The hair, yellow skirt and figure seem to fit.
Really though, seeing Luigi and Shadow run side by side is really damn weird though.
Posted: Sep 17th 2007 5:00PM (Unverified) said
awsome,sonic VS mario and now sadow VS luegi,sooner or later its going to be tales VS wario and kucels VS walegi
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Posted: Sep 18th 2007 5:54PM (Unverified) said
thogth i do agree with Mr.Khan,i do look forword to buying this game
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Posted: Sep 17th 2007 5:22PM (Unverified) said
Rupeeclock, I know how you feel. it's almost like really good fan-art.
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Posted: Sep 17th 2007 5:49PM Alexisonfire said
Well, Shadow is the game. I'm no longer interested.
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Posted: Sep 17th 2007 5:55PM Covarr said
I really hope that this game has both of the songs that belong with the Olympics (http://ask.yahoo.com/20060216.html for more info), especially the one by John Williams.
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Posted: Sep 18th 2007 2:45AM Fullmetal Salchemist said
This still looks like a very crappy game.
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Posted: Sep 18th 2007 4:53AM (Unverified) said
I thought Luigi was faster than Mario. (RE: SMB2)
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Posted: Sep 18th 2007 5:57PM (Unverified) said
thougth i whis that it would tales and not shadow
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