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Dom Robinson reviews
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Another four years, another Olympics and another fewgames released to cash in..
Sydney 2000 is the official game of the event.
Twelve events are up for the trophy-taking, each with their own dedicatedtraining section which looks more like a new-wave 1980s computer-generated popvideo (right).
A running commentary comes from the respective country’s verbal-diarrhoea-spoutersbut their remarks are way too repetitive. The roar of the crowd during Swimmingsounds like a reverberating speaker rather than humans, it’s impossible tocontrol the Skeet Shooting and who can tell where the Hammer Throw will go?
(The closest I came to winning the hammer throw was on February 14th, 1992.At a party in my second year at Keele University where I got completely pissed,it wasn’t enough that we were all stood on the tables in someone else’s blockwailing away to Queen‘s I Want To Break Free, but afterwardsI went outside, span round several times gathering centrifugal force withthe ironing board, then launched it… into the top of a tree!)
Also, for the Hurdles and Swimming the camera is too far away to work outwhat’s going on, while leaping the High Jump was way too easy.
Overall
I think I’ll be sticking with ye olde Track N’ Field. It had no 3D action andyour sprinter sported a dodgy 70s porn-star barnet and tache, but at least hecould win the race!
(sharp voice) FOUL!
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Reviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor from the same year. Running DVDfever.co.uk since 2000. Nobel Peace Prize winner 2021.