Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Roster, Media

Not too fond of the exculsion of DK, Big, and Toad… At least Sonic will be faster than Mario, according to the stat groups.

At first I was really interested in this game, due to the novelty of seeing these two franchises cross over and such.

And then I realized how much I generally hate the cast of Sonic, and my lack of interest in the franchise in general.

I agree with Blue Falcon – I really don’t care too much for Sonic or his team. I hope the game will be good anyway.

who the heck is ‘vector’? lol @ the sonic team really having to reach to find characters for this.

that said, wtf waluigi but no toad? :s

Why Vector? No-one likes him. Bring Mighty back.

ALH, Vector’s actually an old character from Chaotix. He’s been around since 1995.

Yeah, he’s a big alligator.

Shoot! For a moment there, I was hoping Vector meant Vectorman. :oops:

What the hell? Not knowing who Vector is == failure.

Do agree that Mighty needs more representation. His exclusion from Heroes was unacceptable. In my opinion, there should have been an unlockable “Segasonic” team in Heroes, without any real story, consisting of pre-Adventures-style Sonic, Mighty, and Ray. Would have been awesome.

I REFUSE TO CALL HIM DR. EGGMAN.

It’s Dr. Robotnik. Don’t wear it out.

Anyway, just looking at the screens, here’s some non-playable characters included:

Nintendo:

Toad (the character)
Toads (the race)
Piantas
Lakitu
Chain-Chomp (as a balloon)
Dry Bones

Sega:

Cream
Charmy
Chao (Several varieties)
Flickies and other animals typically freed in earlier games

@Crimson Warrior: Officially, he’s Dr. Ivo “Eggman” Robotnik, with Eggman being his nickname. It’s basically the same thing as with Princess Peach and Bowser, where the character had one name in Japan and another in America/Europe (Eggman/Dr. Robotnik, Princess Peach/Princess Toadstool, King Koopa/Bowser), and the companies eventually just merged the two names to make a standard name for the entire world (though with Peach and Bowser it became a matter of simply making one name the first name and the other the last name, resulting in Princess Peach Toadstool and King Bowser Koopa).

Of course, Bowser was helped by the American cartoon shows also referring to him as King Koopa for some reason. (They also used different names for the various Koopa Kids than were used in the games, but that’s a different story).

Sonic isn’t in this game, it’s Jason Griffith voicing what used to be Sonic, but is actually an empty shell. I hate 4kids so much, as for the Dr.Robotnick thing, it’s Eggman, it’s always been Eggman, and it always made sense for his name to be Eggman as everything he made was Eggish (death egg, ect). The Robonick name was really stupid in my opinion, as was renaming Rockman to Megaman, but now everyone is used to it. It’s the same thing with the whole Balrog, Vega, and M.Bison switchups in Street Fighter.
Oh yea, death to 4kids, I hate you Jason Griffith, bring back Ryan Drummond.

Phew. Silver is nowhere to be seen. I mean, he looks cool, but he’s a douche.

I want vector to be vectorman…booooo

Yeah wtf happened to Army? Did he fall into a deadly spiral of drugs and violence after Chaotix?

Still the most ridiculous idea I’ve heard in a while…doesn’t mean it’s BAD, though.

I Think Rouge, Cream, MetalSonic, and some from the comix. I wanted Toad in it too.

absolutly sucks that espio isn’t playable.

absolutly sucks that espio isn’t playable.

sorry I just repeated that.

He & charme are 2 of my favorite sonic series charecters.Espio would probably be skill or speed,and charmey would be a good all-around.How you doin’(sorry,I just watched norbit and I love how Murphy playes Resputia.)