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!

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

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.

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.

Fun overall, hard game to make fun ill say that. Graphics suck but fun overall 7/10

If you like sports games then the game is good, BUT when steam says Multi-player and co-op instead of local co-op I assume there is online mp.There is not..

My kids and I enjoyed this so much, thank you. Hope this world championships brings us a new game.

Run

Em resumo, é um jogo mediano pra ruim.

Tenho consciência que o jogo tem mais de 13 anos, mas é bem instável na gameplay, confuso em alguns momentos. Para a época até que tem muitas funcionalidades, é bem completo e com vários esportes inclusos. Uma coisa que estranhei (mas acho interessante) é que o resultado de cada prova te dá uma pontuação e no final tanto faz se você ganhar a maioria de medalhas, o importante é ter feito mais pontos (Exemplo: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2731286525).

Faltou um pouco de explicação nos eventos, em outros é bem instável, segue alguns exemplos:
Natação: Você dá o seu máximo mas não tem pois precisava que a velocidade acompanhasse a força e fica parecendo que o jogo é bugado.
Salto em altura / com vara: Você coloca a altura mínima, na dificuldade fácil, acerta todos os requisitos (poder, velocidade, tempo do salto e ajuste) e ainda consegue derrubar a barra.
1500m / ciclismo de pista: Por mais que você tenha uma estabilidade entre os cliques, é bem instável e difícil de saber quando seguirá a força que você aplicou.

Huge fan of Konami's Track and Field and Hyper Sports arcade games. This is worse. I was able to play three events -- high jump, swimming, and 100m dash -- winning the third.

There's no frame limiter, so it's just running at 800 fps. Crashed (to desktop) twice the first fifteen minutes.

It isn't horrible, I'd start it up again, and at least play through every event once, but crashes kill my motivation. The bottom line is that I'd rather uninstall it than contact tech support.