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Every
four years the
Winter Olympics come
into my life and
leave me captivated.
My boss watches
curling every day,
I'm more obsessed
with the skiing
events and the medal
count. At the end of
the two weeks I'm
sad to say them go
but I don't miss
them like I do
football or
basketball season.
Basically the Winter
Olympics come into
my life for two
weeks and then they
leave without a real
second thought.
Just
like the real life
version, Sega's
"Vancouver 2010
comes
into my life, I
played it for two
weeks and then I
never thought about
it again. The action
is great and most of
the events are fun
but there's no replay
factor, no
individualism and
it's not deep at
all. It's a little
like taking original
Nintendo track &
field games and
putting them on this
generation of video
games.
In
"Vancouver 2010" you
compete in 14
different events.
All of the skiing
events are fairly
similar with the
same
mechanics but a
slight difference in
distance or jumps
throughout. The
bobsled events are
killer but there's
no hockey and no
curling. This game
misses some of the
the key events that
make the Olympics
fun.
The missing events
are one thing but
the big sin is
there's not a career
mode or an overall
mode to gather
everything together.
It would have been
awesome to have some
pageantry with teams
of some kind and
play through the
Olympics. Going from
event to event in a
two week schedule
until you finish the
game. Instead you
choose an event, or
multiple events, you
compete, you win or
lose, it shows three
on a podium and
that's it. That's
the extent of the
game.
Playing the events
is actually pretty
fun. Everything is
well designed and
thought of
mechanically. The
ski events are fun
to play through and
the bob-sled type
events are extremely
fun too. When you're
racing you're having
fun with great
mechanics, great
sound effects and
some beautiful
textures. Even the
soundtrack is
quality. But there's
no reason to come
back to the game,
there's just not
enough here in that
sense.
Vancouver 2010 has a
great core but a
terrible shell. The
extras that make a
sports game great
and easy to come
back to are missing
from the title. It's
great to play around
with for a few weeks
but after that it's
boring and there's
no reason to come
back.
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