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Athens is pure Gold!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 9
Date: August 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I recently bought Athens 2004 and thought it was fantastic, the gymnastics events looks very realistic, and the fact that you can use the dance mat makes the game even better. This is a perfect game for you to invite your friends over to play! There are loads of events that you have to master, and try to become a gold medalist! The button pushing isn't for the weak fingered, but it's great to watch your friends jumping up and down on the dance mat trying to finish the 100 meters. This game is for the competitive people who want to win and prove to their friends that they are the best! I would recommend this game!

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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