An Hour of Gaming: Vancouver 2010
January 15th, 2010
Well it’s been 2 years since Beijing 2008 and this of course means that it’s time for Vancouver 2010 – The Winter Olympics. As a sporting event I have to admit that this doesn’t hold a great deal of interest for me, I’ve never been involved in any winter sports apart from the odd snowball fight as a tearaway child. However, even I can see that the selection of events makes for a far more compelling videogame than the summer event. Available on PS3 and 360, let’s see how the game stacks up.
As you might expect from an Olympics based title, it’s not the best thing ever. The games themselves are very nicely presented, with an over the shoulder view bringing you right into the action, though your character can sometimes get in the way – not exactly what you want when your hurtling down a mountainside at 100kph. There’s a quite booming rock soundtrack, some of which I quite like but a lot of it just seems to go past me as a bit of a noise. In general the game looks lovely, the speed of events is captured well and there doesn’t seem to be any noticeable issues with the way the game looks.
As far as gameplay goes there is a lot of button bashing, a few corrective moves and some light nudges here and there. For the most part your just trying to guide your character down the hill as best you can, I’m sure there is some room for skill to improve your performance but I can’t see too many people bothering to master it, maybe if your a young child and this is the only game you can afford, otherwise I think people will move on fairly quickly.
If you really love the winter Olympics then you may find this is a nice little way to be involved, otherwise I’d steer clear to be quite honest. The verdict:
Don’t Bother.
Tags: beijing, olympics, ps3, vancouver, xbx360
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