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Another four years, another Olympics and another few
games released to cash in..
Sydney 2000 is the official game of the event.
Twelve events are up for the trophy-taking, each with their own dedicated
training section which looks more like a new-wave 1980s computer-generated pop
video (right).
A running commentary comes from the respective country's verbal-diarrhoea-spouters
but their remarks are way too repetitive. The roar of the crowd during Swimming
sounds like a reverberating speaker rather than humans, it's impossible to
control the Skeet Shooting and who can tell where the Hammer Throw will go?
(The closest I came to winning the hammer throw was on February 14th, 1992.
At a party in my second year at Keele University where I got completely pissed,
it wasn't enough that we were all stood on the tables in someone else's block
wailing away to Queen's I Want To Break Free, but afterwards
I went outside, span round several times gathering centrifugal force with
the ironing board, then launched it... into the top of a tree!)
Also, for the Hurdles and Swimming the camera is too far away to work out
what's going on, while leaping the High Jump was way too easy.
Overall
I think I'll be sticking with ye olde Track N' Field. It had no 3D action and
your sprinter sported a dodgy 70s porn-star barnet and tache, but at least he
could win the race!
(sharp voice) FOUL!
GRAPHICS SOUND EFFECTS AND MUSIC PLAYABILITY ORIGINALITY ENJOYMENT
As of April 2009, Blu-rays and DVDs reviewed by the editor are watched on a Panasonic TH-37PX80B
37" Plasma TV with a Sony BDP-1500 Blu-ray player and played through a Yamaha DSP-AX820 amplifier.
PC games reviewed by the editor are on:
Since Jan 2011: Intel Quad Core Dell XPS 8100, i7 CPU 860 @ 2.80Ghz, 8Gb RAM, nVidia GeForce GTS 240, Windows 7
Since Nov 2005: Intel Pentium D 830 3.0Ghz, 1Gb RAM, 128Mb nVidia GeForce 6700XL, Windows XP
Since Aug 2003: Intel Pentium 4 2.66Ghz, 512Mb RAM, 128Mb GeForce4 MX440 graphics, Windows XP
Since May 2003: Intel Pentium 4 2.6Ghz, 512Mb RAM, 128Mb ATI Radeon 9600TX graphics, Windows XP
Since Jun 2002: Intel Pentium III 600Mhz, 384Mb RAM, Windows 98 SE, 64Mb ATI Radeon 8500LE
Since May 2000: Intel Pentium III 600Mhz, 384Mb RAM, Windows 98 SE, Voodoo 3 3000 AGP
Another four years, another Olympics and another few
games released to cash in..
A running commentary comes from the respective country's verbal-diarrhoea-spouters
but their remarks are way too repetitive. The roar of the crowd during Swimming
sounds like a reverberating speaker rather than humans, it's impossible to
control the Skeet Shooting and who can tell where the Hammer Throw will go?
I think I'll be sticking with ye olde Track N' Field. It had no 3D action and
your sprinter sported a dodgy 70s porn-star barnet and tache, but at least he
could win the race!
