Summer Athletics

2.4/10 - About How You'd Expect An Olympics Game To Be... So there are some cool things about this game; there are 26 different events and a career mode to choose from. Some of the movement triggers feel like hitting notes from Guitar Hero; which was pretty cool. Unfortunately, there wasn't enough to put this game into the thumbs up category. It always ruins sports games for me when it's not skill based; meaning once you figure out the moves you can get amazing scores every single time... That's not fun. Also, another killer for me is the audience; no time was spent with this obviously. In a stadium of 50,000 there are only 4 different looking audience members. Even for 2008 that's pretty bad or just lazy. The game will crash if you minimize the screen; and maybe a few other times like it did for me. This game could actually be fun if the multiplayer/coop existed in any capacity. Someone must have been pretty high to think this was still worth $20. Actual Value - $1-3ish [code][h1] Accidently Reviewed[/h1] Was this review helpful or maybe even not helpful? Either way join this group for more. Free Keys and Reviews weekly! [url=http://steamcommunity.com/groups/Accidently] Steam Group: AccidentlyReviewed[/url][/code]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbLOdjahwIY This reminds me of a cross between Epix Summer Games and some Konami game I had on the Gameboy. It's not perfect by any means but the range of events is quite wide and there are far more than you first realise - various kinds of cycling, swimming, jumping, running, and throwing stuff. You win shiny things, and break records and your keyboard. It ran smoothly for me and some of the events had a bit of a learning curve. It suffers from some lazy moments (did it have to be rushed out for the Beijing Olympics, I wonder?) but is basically fun. It's certainly not presented in '3D comic style' - more 'trying to be real but not quite getting there because we don't have the money' style. Nor is it worth £15.99 - get it on sale. Until then, watch me butcher it!

I am a pole vaulter at the D1 college level in the US. I bought the game, went straight to the pole vault event. Afterwards, brought in all of my roommates, (who are also my teammates,) and we sat down and did a decathlon. Never before have I seen all of my roommates so excited to try and outdo each other as much as when I bought this. We got a noise complaint and the 800m runner broke a blood vessel trying to win the 400. Beautiful game. Thank you devs.

Summer Athletics 2009 includes indeed a lot of different sport events, but the differences between them leave a lot to be desired. The new coop- and splitscreen multiplayer-modes are also fairly amusing, but overall there is too little innovation.

[h1]Весело, интересно. Но вы наиграете не более двух часов[/h1] Основная проблема игры -- отсутствие достижений и глобальной цели. Просто так играть и тратить своё время не интересно. Я вот наиграл менее полутора часов и мне надоело. Я увидел всю игру, победил в некоторых видах спорта. Тут нет мультиплеера, нет досок почёта. Игра на один вечер максимум. Сама игра, как не сложно догадаться, посвящена летним видам спорта. Тут вы найдёте и плавание, и бег, и прыжки в высоту\длину\с палкой, метание молота\копья, велогонки и т.д. Управление в игре относительно простое, жми быстро влево-вправо и в нужный момент нажимай пробел. Ну попутно в зависимости от вида спорта нужно нажимать ws,ad. Управление не сложное, а перед началом будет дана краткая инструкция. Правда на английском языке, так что маленькие дети и люди, не занающего английский язык могут не понять. Третья проблема игры -- в плавании необходимо быстро долбить вправо\влево с частотой 5-10 нажатий в секунду на протяжении нескольких минут. В беге то же самое. Это издевательство, у меня до сих пор болят пальцы и запястье. Никакого удовольствия в этом нет. Четвёртая проблема -- отсутствие баланса. Некоторые испытания слишком лёгкие (стрельба), а некоторые слишком сложные (плавание). Что качается графики, то она устаревшая, но выглядит стильно, яркие и сочные цвета, вы не заскучаете. Хочется прямо окунуться в этот мир и пощупать детали. Нет сглаживания, и сама графика в технологическом плане сильно устарела. Но 2007 год, что вы хотели. Звук шикарен, аплодисменты, голоса комментаторов позволят вам полностью погрузиться в спортивный мир и почувствовать себя настоящим спортсменом. Стоит ли брать игру? Ну если только с 90% скидкой, чтобы поиграть часок и навсегда удалить игру с компьютера. 3\10. Почему отзыв положительный? Потому что я получил то, что и ожидал. Я не представляю, как можно улучшить спортивную игру такого плана. Мои надежды и ожидания полностью оправдались, я не разочарован.

Я поиграл в эту игру всего 15 минут, но для этой игры это даже много. Тут просто нечем заняться. Видов спорта тут немного и управление сплошной маразм. Мне не интересно нажимать все время на левую и правую стрелочку. Почему я не могу управлять тем же велосипедистом так же, как я это делаю в гта? 15 минут игры, а я уже попробовал все виды спорта и не знаю, что тут еще делать. Ах да, тут нет русского языка. Это уже наболевшая тема и любой игре, где нет хотябы русских субтитров, про озвучку вообще молчу, я автоматически ставлю отрицательный отзыв! Но этой игре такой отзыв идет за ее отвратный геймплей. Создатели игры зря получают даже те копейки, которые стоит эта игра!

Leider ist das hier komplette Abzocke! Steuerung klappt nicht (weder X-Box Controller noch Keyboard), Monitor flackert ohne Ende. Bitte erstattet mir den Kaufpreis und nehmt das Spiel aus dem Angebot. Ist echt ne miese Nummer Leute.

Summer Athletics is an ancient game from 2008. It's a whopping 16 years old at the time of this review. The game lacks support for the typical features of modern gaming PCs, hasn't been modernised or updated to run smoothly on contemporary machines. The game looks and feels dated. Despite this lack of modernisation, it carries a pretty high price tag for such an old game. This seems to have be lingering on Steam with an inflated price to try profit from abandonware. This is a rather poor bargain bin entry from 2008 designed for the Nintendo Wii. As it says on the box, you do a number of summer olympics themed minigames like various swimming, track and field events, all of which involve bashing away as hard as you can on the buttons of a console peasant children's toy gamepad. So there's no depth here at all. On the upside, the game does feature customisable controls and resolution, so at least some of the basic, minimum requirements have been met. Unfortunately there's a number of other technical defects and shortcomings which contribute to the game being difficult to recommend to gamers. Because this is designed for consoles, it carries a number of deliberate design deficiencies. Compromises were made to cater to the inferior console gaming appliances that the game was designed for. These are unfortunate compromises and limitations that PC gamers shouldn't be forced to accept, but it's evident that PC was a second thought for the console-centric developers. The game is deficient as a result of these choices, and would have been so much better without the handicaps that designing games for consoles forces upon a game. Once more, console peasants have made gaming worse for everyone. There's 4K support but the graphics are still super dated. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 7 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 100,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected. So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 100,000+ games on Steam? Summer Athletics is insanely expensive for an abandonware nostalgia gouge, at $20 USD, and it's not worth it. That's right, TWENTY BUCKS FOR A SIXTEEN YEAR OLD GAME. The game is just too old, hasn't been modernised. And as the old saying goes, you can't go home again. For comparison, the $20 asking price for this game could get you games like "Detroit: Become Human", "Satisfactory" or "Monster Hunter Rise". Quality, professionally made games like those are frequently on sale cheaper than this.

Avevo voglia di qualcosa di diverso dal solito e ho deciso quindi di prendere questo Summer Athletics (insieme ad altro) durante la summer sale 2018. Ne ho chiesto il rimborso dopo circa 20 minuti di gioco, penso che basti a spiegare il mio parere sul gioco. Per voler essere buonista a tutti i costi potrei giustificare parte dei suoi difetti come naturali punti di invecchiamento dovuti all'età, ma sono ben consapevole che nel 2008 c'erano già in circolazione giochi di ben altra caratura. Parliamo velocemente della grafica? Non mi aspettavo una grafica da urlo, ad essere onesti, e a prepararmi erano bastate le schermate presentate dalla vetrina Steam: ero piuttosto realista su modelli e resa generale, forse un po' meno sugli (assenti) effetti. Potrei invece essere generoso nel definire le texture più che accettabili. Ma purtroppo a padroneggiare su quel poco di positivo che ho visto, nel comparto grafico, è la "pesantezza" con cui tutto viene fatto girare. Ogni movimento sembra poco fluido e tutto assume una spiacevole sensazione di finto. E se la grafica potrebbe comunque meritare un voto di 5 decimi, sicuramente non si può andare oltre il 2 per l'interfaccia: inutilmente invasiva e ingombrante, stupidamente faticosa da leggere. Non basta a convincervi? Allora parliamo velocemente del gameplay, nel quale a mio avviso non sono tutte ombre ma quasi. Ero pienamente consapevole, all'acquisto, che tutto si sarebbe risolto in un premere certi tasti, ineguagliata scuola "Track & Field", ho apprezzato il sistema di pressione dei tasti in sequenza col giusto tempismo, simile a quello del ballo in GTA oppure a Guitar Hero. Non mi è dispiaciuto neanche il dover regolare la propria cadenza per essere veramente efficaci, eppure c'è sempre qualcosa che non torna ...e questa sensazione ti accompagna per tutta la partita. Insomma, dopo aver provato salto in alto, nuoto e tiro con l'arco mi sono un po' arreso al fatto che il gioco non è come me lo aspettavo. Peccato.

leider funktioniert dieses Spiel nicht wie es soll.