**Start of Rant**
What is it with Developers? is it tight deadlines, ridiculous time scales or lack of thinking? Got Mario and Sonic at xmas and been playing it last 2 days - my impressions are that this is a fantastic game and there are 2 types of games the Missions and Arena type games.
The missions are all single player - fair enough but the Arena type can be played one or two player, each arena has around 3 events, are points based and is identical for 1 and 2 players except only in 1 player mode can you unlock events for the proper multiplayer / custom tournaments as there's only a handful available by default - WHY???
This has been marketed as a massive muliplayer party game yet in multiplayer mode you can only choose from say 100m, 110m hurdles, long jump, 100m freestyle swimming, javelin and thats about it - this means that "parties" of people may have spent hundreds on 4 wii motes and nunchucks to have fun but they cannot really play it until somebody sits and plays it on single player mode, to me thats just dumb.
At least let the 2, 3 or 4 players play through the arenas to unlock the events for the custom challengers
**RANT OVER**
Those people that think they're perfect give a bad reputation to us who are...
"With the DS, it's fair to say that Nintendo stepped out of the technical race and went for a feature differentiation with the touch screen, but I fear that it won't have a lasting impact beyond that of a gimmick - so the long-lasting appeal of the platform is at peril as a direct result of that." - Phil Harrison, Sony
