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Next best thing to the real deal

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 17, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Athens 2004 is a real good games, I remember when it first came out.. I wasn't expected that much improvement from the last game (ESPN Track and Field).

The game have a wide range of events and it's enjoyable. Competision is always tight, the more you break the records the tougher the competiters get. BUY THIS GAME!!! this would be the best Athletics game until/if they come out with one in late 2008/ early 2009. I hope they improve into having real athletes on it by names and things, that would be tight!!

Track and Field is my heart. I've been sprinting the 100m, 200m, sometimes the 400m and did the Long Jump/Triple Jump as field events ever since I was around 8yrs old. Competed in track and field games such as Cafifta, and other island meets (I'm from the Caribbean) I always loved the sport.

I won over 60 medals (36 of them are gold) but all that ended when I was 18yrs old before a track meet. Got into incident that caused me a knee injury but I'm working my way back to running again and competing.

AMAZING

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 28, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game strictly for the equestrian and found myself playing every event! it's realistic and the controls make sense. Some events like shooting I find time consuming and not as fun as the other events. The weird thing is that I've played a lot of equestrian games and this one is the best and it's not even focused on it! This game is worth every penny of the price! A great party game too :)

Don't Waste your Money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: August 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is TERRIBLE!!! What a waste of $$$. Rent this game before you buy and save yourself the $$$$. You Won't buy it! Don't make the same mistake that I made.

I took a chance with this game because it is the "Official Video Game of the Olympics"....it is obvious that no one played it before they endorsed it. This game does not require skill....just the ability to click XYXYXY...as fast as you can to speed up...whipee.

This is the WORST game I have seen for PS2!!!!

My fingers are so tired......

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: November 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The game repeatedly asks you to press X and O buttons alternately and endlessly. After 15 minutes of gameplay, my fingers are so tired that I cannot play this game anymore. How could a game company be so careless that it does not consider this factors?

The game also suffers from unoriginality. After a while, you will find that the game controls replicate itself throughout all sub-games - pressing X and O repeatedly. How can that be fun?

Very-disappointing title. In fact, ESPN International Track and Field has better controls and more interesting.

A Good Value

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

While this title is several years old, it is still a very fun PS2 title. My wife and I rented this for the family and had a blast. While there are many games that require you to hammer buttons, there are also games like archery, the 1500k, pole vauly, gymnastics, horse jumping, shot put (and many more)that require a lot of skill. We found most of the games addictive. Also, with practice you could get better. Archery was awesome! If you are looking for a cheap game that many in your family would like, I recommend this title. We bought it after renting.

Some have given this game negative reviews because some events (like swimming and the 400 meter) require you to tap for over a minute. No one can possibly do this and enjoy it. But, and I say BUT, there are too many good events on this title that DO NOT require you to tap for you to pass on it. Ignore the "tappers", you will have a blast with the rest.

It has more to it if you look for it!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: August 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I really liked Athens 2004 especially the events that do not require button bashing. Check out Gymnastics and High Jump as two examples.

We had great fun as a multi player and spoofing it out on the dance mat.

great idea...........bad game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 9
Date: August 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

989 sports has all of these great and awseome ideas! They just cant figure out how to put it together.

Athens 2004 is a game based on the Olympics (fully liscenced) which includes full rosters for most nations. NOTE: this game does not have basketball, baseball, soccer, etc. This game is for the tracks, shooting, swimming, yeah yeah yeah. The gameplay uses mostly simple combos in order to complete tasks. EX: for tracks, you push o and x over and over until you get so sick you will have lepricies. You could put the biggest battery over the buttons and still lose to the computer.
Overall, if you enjoy the Olympics either(A) Actually play them(B) Go and watch them, or (C)Go back to gym class.

Hand and fingers tire quickly

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: July 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I just opened this game and really couldn't play more than half an hour without my fingers tiring of the controls. Almost all of the events use the same rapid succession of the X and O buttons to gain speed. I found it difficult to continually press these buttons and I couldn't compete with the computer athletes in most events. I tried pressing the buttons with my index and second finger instead of just my thumb, but it wasn't much better.

TERRIBLE!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 18
Date: August 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Don't even bother thinking about this game. I haven't tried the multi-p mode, but the one-p is total ****! The developer, 989 (have you ever heard of them?), totally botched the controls. For the swimming and track, you might as well do the actual event, it'd be easier! If the IOC had used a company like EA Sports, maybe the game would have been better. There is a limited amount of events, very small selection, and the controls revolve around pressing O and X alternatingly at a very high and difficult speed! I usually take to video games quickly, but this one was so complicated that I had to read the instruction booklet more than 3 times just to comprehend it! On the controls screen before the event there is a video, but it assumes that you have some auto-presser that can press the buttons at over 2,000 presses a minute! If you can do that and won't injure your fingers on it, go ahead and spend $40 on a piece of crap. I hope that the party mode and women's floor is better with the dance pads, but the other events are way too difficult. I swear, this game is the WORST I've ever played, and I've played 150+ video games. Don't bother with it. Seriously.

Olympic Heaven

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I liked this game because It has loads of events, with diffent levels of controls. The controls take time to get use to but once you get into it, you end up spending ages trying to beat your own world record. The shooting and the archery are the best events.

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