| Sydney 2000 The game of the games� The Olympics is a sporting event of a war of powerful endurance. Athletes from all over the world take part to prove their own power. Down to the official game of the games. The front-end menu is easy enough to move around, with an arcade mode to select from, and the all-important Olympics mode and finally a head to head mode to work your fingers through. When I say work your fingers through I mean work your fingers through. To come anywhere near close to victory you have to put your fingers and toes (if you are a freak) through masses of pain and suffering. The first event I tried was the 100M sprint, which was enough to give me a massive blister on one of my fingers with bashing the buttons. I�m warning you if you don�t like blisters then don�t play this game. The events are very difficult requiring you to rapidly hit the buttons to gain speed and power. Events range from the interesting 100M, where you have to build up power to beat the other seven competitors, and the Javelin throwing competition fighting to get the furthest distance with a long stick. The graphics are cartoon style yet still realistically modelled athletes running, swimming and cycling around the Sydney venue. As I said above the events are very hard with events like diving being hard to master. Diving requires you to pick a dive style and then jump off a diving board without making a single mistake, because it�s crucial for your points from the judges. But perfecting the dives do seem almost impossible. There�s actually twelve events which include Javelin throwing, weight lifting, the hurdles, 100m, Kayaking, Diving, swimming, high jump, cycling, Hammer throwing, triple jump and clay pigeon shooting. The Arcade mode is just a straightforward competition fare. No qualifying is required so it�s just right into the rounds. The Olympics mode is long drawn out over training, qualifying and rounds. Training your athlete up is incredibly frustrating on your mind and fingers and you�ll get nowhere if you don�t train them up. The training has a wire frame figure representing your athlete and you have to complete a certain objective to build their stats up to the brim. There�s a training session for beginners, which has one of the commentators guiding you through the events telling you how to do them. Talking of commentary this game�s is very poor with them hardly speaking a word during the events. In my eyes the whole game is a complete disappointment and a waste of such a great licence. It�s a complete waste of time because it causes painful blisters on your fingers. But what ever I say the game will sell like the Olympics is going out of fashion.Chris Wigham 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 |