Summer Athletics 2009

Description

Summer Athletics: The Ultimate Challenge is a collection of sports events based on the Olympic Summer Games. It features 28 sports divided into eight disciplines: Swimming, jumping, throwing, cycling, running, platform diving, archery and the new skeet shooting (two variants). The handling is similar for all of them: rhythmic motions to keep the athlete moving and quick time events (pressing a button when it gets displayed on the screen) for performing certain actions. The mentioned rhythmic motions depend on the input device the player uses, e.g. at the swimming event the player needs to press two buttons alternately when using a keyboard and rotate the analog sticks when using a gamepad. The player character aims automatically during the skeet shooting, the player himself only has to shoot at the right time.

The game features a basic career mode where the player gains a fixed amount of experience points after every event which can be reinvested into five stats like speed or jumping technique. The new character editor allows the adjustment of almost all facial aspects. In the optional arcade mode the players have so-called boosts to their disposal to improve their athlete's performance for a short time.

There is also a new co-op mode for relay races (sprint and swimming): parallel to every handover on the screen the player hands his input device to the next player.

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The Press Says

Gameswelt	Xbox 360	Aug 07, 2009	69 out of 100	69
GameStar (Germany)	Windows	Jul 13, 2009	68 out of 100	68
Onlinewelten.de	Wii	Aug 10, 2009	67 out of 100	67
Game Captain	Windows	Jul 28, 2009	66 out of 100	66
Gamezone (Germany)	Wii	Jul 31, 2009	6.5 out of 10	65
4Players.de	Wii	Jul 22, 2009	50 out of 100	50
4Players.de	Xbox 360	Jul 22, 2009	50 out of 100	50
4Players.de	Windows	Jul 22, 2009	50 out of 100	50
Eurogamer.de	Xbox 360	Aug 06, 2009	4 out of 10	40
Eurogamer.de	Wii	Aug 06, 2009	4 out of 10	40

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