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 May 17th, 2013, as the first out of the three titles of the SEGA and Nintendo exclusive collaboration, the other confirmed one being Sonic Lost World.

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 fantastical 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.

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.
 * Shy Guy (Dream Ice Hockey)
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Referees

 * Toad
 * Chao
 * Lakitu

Olympic Events
There is going to be a total of 16 Olympic Events in this game.


 * Alpine Skiing
 * Ski Jumping
 * Snowboard Cross (Rosa Khutor Extreme Park)
 * Snowboard Slopestyle
 * Freestyle Skiing - Moguls
 * Skating
 * 4-man Bobsleigh (Sanki Sliding Center)
 * Bobsleigh - Skeleton
 * Curling
 * Figure Skating
 * Biathlon

Dream Events
There will be a total of eight Dream Events for Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games, set in unrealistic locations from the Sonic the Hedgehog and the Super Mario video game series.


 * Winter Sports Champion Race (Mini Russia Island)
 * Dream Bobsleigh (Speed Highway)
 * Dream Snowboard Cross (Mushroom Bridge)
 * Dream Ice Hockey (Delfino Plaza)

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.