Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games

Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games with a brand new medley of funny Olympic events.

Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games might not be the best sports game in Nintendo 3DS, but it's filled with content and has some interesting ideas.

Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games offers a fun gaming experience to young gamers. Aside from a few mini-games that can be quite painful, the game makes smart use of the 3DS' capabilities. That being said, the game will probably be too simplistic for hardcore sports fans.

There are some cool new features in Rio 2016, for example the costumes in the story mode. The possibilities of 3DS are used as much as possible, which is very fun, especially as the variety in minigames is good. Is it exciting though? Unfortunately not, and there are no online ways of playing, which feels a bit old-fashioned.

Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games is a fun game which will put a smile on your face. Don't expect too much of it, all you have to do is expect the fun you'll have with it.

Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games on the 3DS is a collection of fun and some forgettable mini-games!

Even Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games is better than past editions of the game and an excellently well presented souvenir for the Olympic games lovers, it is not deep enough to be recommended as a good sports game. Take it as an easy and casual party game to enjoy with friends thanks to the download play; it's a simple collection of mini games.

Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games works alright as a handheld game, but I can't help but feel that this will be a better experience when it releases on Wii U.

Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games on the 3DS has its moments of fun, but many of the minigames are not deep enough.

The usual Olympic "adventure" of Mario & Sonic is, as the previous one, a collection of minigames. Well: to be honest, is a collection of the same minigames we played 4 years ago. And the input detection problems are still here. Think about it only if you skipped London in 2012 and you are an old fan of Track & Field.

This fifth installment of the Mario & Sonic series is a nice multi-event sports title, although a little too easy for an experienced gamer. It's pretty clear that the targeted audience is younger gamers, and they'll have a lot of fun, thanks to the eye-candy graphics, the local multiplayer (not online, though) and a roster of well-known and loved characters.

Mario and Sonic meet again and the result is... kinda boring. While the game presentation is nice and colorful, its mechanics are too shallow.

"Mario & Sonic" needs something truly new to recapture its novelty – something that isn't just another Olympics. [Issue #22 – July/August 2016, p.75]

Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games is good fun, but ultimately it’s too shallow and simple to be anything but a passing diversion.

Mario and Sonic aim for gold but just about scrape bronze, a good effort but more training is required.

Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games on the Nintendo 3DS is nothing more than alright.

It's made with a young audience in mind, and it'll work for them, but that's no reason to take a step backwards from the previous episode. Hopefully the Wii U version will be more interesting.

Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games is a party game featuring a rich cast of 40 characters from the worlds of Super Mario and Sonic, who battle themselves through the Olympic events. Unfortunately, a set group of characters is limited to certain events, the story mode is short, flat and somewhat uninteresting.

The game sticks too much to the series' formula, which means that it pales next to other similar titles available on the 3DS. While it has its punctual moments of fun, many of the minigames are bland and not deep enough for players looking for something more compelling. This is a game addressed only to those who know exactly what they're coming for.

For those of you who already own a Mario & Sonic game on 3DS, this particular instalment might be a difficult purchase to justify on the new content alone, but for newcomers, Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games is the most definitive handheld version yet.

Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games has all the makings to be a strong multiplayer game for Nintendo 3DS, but it fails to stick the landing due to the misstep of not including an online multiplayer.

Instead of improving with time, Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games is the kind of franchise that keeps making the same mistakes over and over again. It may be fun in the beginning, but the very mechanics that should sustain the experience make it rather dull after a short while.

Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games carries the same problems than Sotchi in 2014 : this 3DS version suffers from its too many experimental gameplays. All of them are not of the same quality. Some are barely correct as others are real nightmares. Really not enough to get a true replay value.

Not up for medal contention. Buy London 2012 for the PS2 instead.

Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympics for the 3DS is not exactly a bad game - especially if you liked previous entries in the franchise - but it could be so much more.

Nothing about the game is really satisfying, nothing about the game stands out, and poor and lazy design choices make it feel much more like a cash-grab than a full fledged experience.

Overall, Mario & Sonic Rio 2016 Olympic Games feels like many of the event based games that came before it: full of events, but shallow in substance. The lack of an online multiplayer mode, and the inability to play as any Mario or Sonic character in any event makes this entry in the Mario & Sonic games a bore.

Acceptable fodder for undemanding children, but wasting such an epic crossover on such a non-event of a game has never seemed more perverse.