Just another timed button masher with a disgraceful official license
Graphics are terrible, and talking 32-bit playstation quality on everything except the generic athletes. Generic in the sense that not one of them are even real, and they just generate one for you for each event. While I'm on this generic argument, how about seeing Australia, Japan, China, and other countries not dominant in sprint event running WR times in the 100m. Talk about unrealistic..
Menus, it looked like i was playing PC a game in a 600x400res on a 1440x900 screen. Field events: hammer throw, it wouldn't even show you where in the ground the hammer dropped, it was like it hit a steel floor. Triple Jump, the sand must have been play-doh or something.. it was so flat and you wouldn't even see the sand kick up in the air when u land in it.
Gameplay and Control is horrible. Every single event is beat up your controller, spin your analog stick, press this button exactly when we want you to, or a combination of these. The 100m is just another timing & button mashing affair like in every single other track game.
But what got to me the most, is that after literally destroying up my controller to actually get a gold in the field events (track is ridiculous, u have a better chance beating Bolt's record on puma.com than you have of getting a podium finish in this) I was never more offended than to hear that it wasn't even our national anthem that was being played, all of them sound like a mixture of countries anthem mixed together to start and finish within 10 seconds...AND THEY CALL THIS OFFICIAL?!?! Its like the only thing Sega got right in this was the colors of some countries' flags.
This one isn't even eligible for the special olympics, let alone the gold I have seen some other reviewers give it...
my rating: 1.5/10