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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 :)

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.

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.

Athens 2004

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: December 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I love this game. I have it and play it every chance I get. It would be nice with the improvements for the next Track and Field game to have the 100 and 400 relay races. Or have the competition just like the olympics with heats, semi finals, and finals. However the game is fantastic.

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.

Frusterating but AWESOME

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: October 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Overall I love this game. At first I was like this sucks because the controlls are so screwed up, but it's so addicting you play it anyways. After a few days or weeks of playing, I got really good at the confusing controlls and now I'm always playing this game. This game is constantly challenging, so it never really gets old. There are a lot of categories to choose from so if you just hate a few of the games, you can pick other ones. I would definatly recommend this game if you wanna have fun.

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.

just get it

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: August 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

athens is the best game ever if u were to like this game u would have to be competitive and patient because this game takes a long time to get good at but once u have secured that u would be addicted to this game like me.

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.

Awesome Athens!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: August 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Athens 2004 is an awesome sports game and a realistic version of the Olympics. I was really impressed with the number of events in the game. As well as the running and hurdles, you can swim, do gymnastics, shoot on the archery range, and even ride a horse! The controls are easy to use. As other reviewers have stated, it is a great party game for you and your friends - really cool with multitap and dance mat!

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