Summer Athletics 2009 (Xbox 360)

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Description

Summer Athletics: The Ultimate Challenge is a collection of sports events based on the Olympic Summer Games. It features 28 sports divided into eight disciplines: Swimming, jumping, throwing, cycling, running, platform diving, archery and the new skeet shooting (two variants). The handling is similar for all of them: rhythmic motions to keep the athlete moving and quick time events (pressing a button when it gets displayed on the screen) for performing certain actions. The mentioned rhythmic motions depend on the input device the player uses, e.g. at the swimming event the player needs to press two buttons alternately when using a keyboard and rotate the analog sticks when using a gamepad. The player character aims automatically during the skeet shooting, the player himself only has to shoot at the right time.

The game features a basic career mode where the player gains a fixed amount of experience points after every event which can be reinvested into five stats like speed or jumping technique. The new character editor allows the adjustment of almost all facial aspects. In the optional arcade mode the players have so-called boosts to their disposal to improve their athlete's performance for a short time.

There is also a new co-op mode for relay races (sprint and swimming): parallel to every handover on the screen the player hands his input device to the next player.

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The Press Says

Gameswelt	Aug 07, 2009	69 out of 100	69
GamingXP	Aug 14, 2009	65 out of 100	65
Onlinewelten.de	Aug 10, 2009	62 out of 100	62
4Players.de	Jul 22, 2009	50 out of 100	50
Eurogamer.de	Aug 06, 2009	4 out of 10	40
Xbox World 360	Aug 24, 2009	4 out of 10	40
Gamekult	Oct 23, 2009	3 out of 10	30

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• Summer Athletics 2009 (Official website (English/German))