Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Hands-on
Wii owners have been competitively waggling their remotes and nunchuks in Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games for a couple of months now, but Nintendo DS owners will have to wait until after Santa flies overhead to play the game in a portable rendition. SEGA's Olympic Games design will be coming to the portable in just a few weeks, though, and the company let us stretch our legs with a near-final version of the dual-screen handheld edition this week. We had already had hands-on with the game back at a Nintendo event earlier this year where we could play skeet shooting, table tennis and others, but that version was a Japanese-language edition. The version sent over by SEGA this week is a full-blown North American-ized version, but for this hands-on we were restricted to only a handful of events. 100 Meter Dash is the game's most basic challenge. Just like the Wii version of the game, on the Nintendo DS speed is everything: at the start of the race, you charge up your character