Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games

Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games is an upcoming Wii U game and is the fourth installment of the Mario and Sonic series. It was first announced by Satoru Iwata on Nintendo Direct on 17 May 2013, as the second out of the three titles of SEGA and Nintendo's exclusive collaboration, the other confirmed one being Sonic Lost World. 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.

Gameplay
Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games will feature sixteen events, including a wide variety of Olympic winter sports, including skiing, snowboarding, bobsledding, pairs figure skating and curling. Players will have to use both the GamePad and the Wii Remote Plus, depending on the event in question. Curling, for example, requires players to draw lines on the GamePad's screen.

The game will also include special events set in the world of Mario and Sonic, in which characters have special abilities not possible in the real world. Mixed events that combine sports like skiing, snowboarding and bobsledding in one race, will also be available. Figure skating can now be performed with two characters on the same team, team-working simultaneously.

Game modes
Mario and Sonic at the Sochi Olympic winter games has 5 modes, which are Medley mania, Legends Showdown (Story mode), Single match, Action and answer tour (Party games) and Worldwide VS (Online multi-player)

Legends showdown
Legends Showdown seems to be a story mode of the game. In a trailer of game, it's seen a ghost versions of Sonic, Tails, Donkey Kong and Yoshi. Player must compete against them in order to proceed. There will be also a boss fights, such as Birdo and her team in Ice hockey.

Action and answer tour
Action and answer tour is an action quiz, which combines quiz and minigames. In Quick shot and answer, the answering happens by shooting the answer to the question.

Characters
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Team Sonic

 * Sonic the Hedgehog
 * Miles "Tails" Prower
 * Knuckles the Echidna
 * Amy Rose
 * Shadow the Hedgehog
 * Blaze the Cat
 * Vector the Crocodile
 * Silver the Hedgehog
 * Doctor Eggman
 * Metal Sonic

Team Mario

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

 * Birdo (Ice Hockey)

Referees

 * Toad
 * Chao
 * Lakitu

In-Event Characters

 * Shy Guy (Dream Ice Hockey)
 * Wiggler Bus (Dream Snowboard Cross)

Olympic Events

 * Alpine Skiing Downhill
 * Ski Jumping Large Hill
 * Freestyle Skiing - Freestyle Ski Cross
 * Freestyle Skiing - Moguls
 * Biathlon
 * Snowboard - Snowboard Cross (Rosa Khutor Extreme Park)
 * Snowboard - Snowboard Slopestyle
 * Speed Skating - Speed Skating 1000m
 * Figure Skating
 * Bobsleigh - 4-man Bobsleigh (Sanki Sliding Center)
 * Bobsleigh - Skeleton
 * Ice Hockey
 * Curling

Dream Events

 * Winter Sports Champion Race (Mini Russia Island)
 * Groove Pipe Snowboard (Mushroom Bridge)
 * Figure Skating Spectacular (Bowser's Castle)
 * Roller Coaster Bobsleigh (Speed Highway)
 * Snow Day Street Hockey (Delfino Plaza)
 * Dream Snowboard Cross (Mushroom Bridge)
 * Hole In One Curling (Green Hill)
 * Snowball Scrimmage
 * Bullet Bill Sledge Race

Trivia

 * This game is the fifth crossover between Mario and Sonic. The others being Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games and Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games.
 * The game appears to have the longest Sonic the Hedgehog video game title in the entire Sonic franchise, as it has twenty syllables in its entire name, twenty one syllables if you pronounce it "two thousand fourteen" instead of "twenty fourteen".
 * It has exactly the same characters as Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games and Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games.
 * This is the first Mario & Sonic game without a handheld counterpart.
 * This is also a first game of the series, which includes online multiplayer mode