Confucius say: A bad review is biased toward other gaming genres while a fair one is fan objective

User Rating: 6.5 | Torino 2006 - The Official Video Game of the XX Olympic Winter Games PC
By BallOBaseSimmer | Review Date:
This is an instance in which the pro review is biased at worst and unfair at best. Reviewers not really into certain game genres tend to give bad or luke warm critiques as a result. Generally, sports titles are more apt to get panned and Olympic titles get no love for not featuring every single event, which is too much to ask.

In specific, Torino 2006 is a fan boy game. And there's a lot more to it than meets the eye. If you actually try to beat the CPU and win the Gold, the difficulty level is its saving grace. But if you're not a fan of winter sports to begin with, you're not gonna have the patience or open-mindedness to give the replay value a chance.

Graphics here are PC awesome and keyboard controls while unwieldy are busy enough to demand event mastery. After considerable practice, I managed to beat the field in the men's downhill and the ski jump, two perennial faves. The game is much easier on the console. On the PC it is a die-hard's adventure.

Torino is as decent a game as other Olympic titles. But if you don't know or care who Alberto Tomba or Franz Klammer is, you won't like this game. And making fun of the name of a Euro city Olympically decked out in its native language and not English is like panning sports video games because they are not RPGs.

Other Helpful Reviews for Torino 2006 - The Official Video Game of the XX Olympic Winter Games

  • Rating:7.5

    You should try it out, you might enjoy it !

    By ultra_35 | Review Date: Feb 06, 2006 | PC

    This game is very fun to play. The graphics are good, the controls are easy to understand, you don't need to destroy the keyboard like in other olympic games :) I'd say it's the best olympic game until now, and it's some... Read Full Review

    2 of 2 users found the following review helpful
  • Rating:2.2

    What an awful game.....

    By D1rty_Dawg | Review Date: Mar 02, 2006 | PC

    I used to love playing Winter Olympic games in days of old. It is the closest I can get to the Olympics here in the UK so i thought that this year i would get whatever game was out and join in. So it is with great reg... Read Full Review

    3 of 4 users found the following review helpful
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