#4
What this game does better than almost anything else here is remove the argument about which sport to play. One child wants gymnastics, another wants table tennis, a third wants the 100m sprint. This game has all of it, wrapped in a presentation that makes both the Mario and Sonic rosters feel genuinely at home on an Olympic track. The individual events vary in depth, and not every one of them is a winner, but the variety means kids who normally would not touch a sports game will find something that interests them. It sits at four rather than higher because sport-for-sport the mechanics are not as sharp as the dedicated titles above it.