When you set foot in the arena, you know you're in the spotlight of one of the world's grandest stages. Athens succeeds where other titles of this genre have failed in the past because of such careful attention that's been paid to detail and in doing so has captured that special "aura" that encompasses the Olympic games.
The hype and sound of the Olympics is a fantastic thing and Athens does not disappoint as it boasts that feature well. There's enthusiasm in every crowd cheer or chant and the "event announcers" commentary masterfully plays off those emotions just like the real life counterparts. From the time you take the field, the awe-inspiring "silence" that falls over the audience before the start of an event and the climatic celebration that comes with the thrill of victory tells you that all eyes and hopes are on you to perform.
You feel like an entertainer. You want to entertain them. You want nothing less than the victory so you can hear them shout for you at the top of their lungs and listen to the announcers brag about your phenomenal performance. And of course, there is no greater hype one can experience during the Olympics than the one that comes after setting a new world record. The Olympic Games, on the other hand, revolve around tests of physical strength and endurance. In essence, they're games that test the very mettle of human physicality.
So here's the dilemma in Athens : how do you test a gamer's mettle in an Olympic videogame? Athens 's answer to that is to make just about every game revolve around mindless button mashing that tests your thumbs and fingers to their very limit - a bit ironic or sad when compared to the total physical transformation an Olympic athlete must endure. Some games are based off of your finger's dexterity and strength, and other events will revolve around precision-based timing ' and for a real good time, it's a combination of both.
Most of the track and field games, for example, have you launching off from the starter blocks with L1, and then mashing the X and O buttons as fast as possible. That is just not fun, and after a while, it's even painful as the early symptoms of tendonitis begin to creep up your fingers. Now, when you take into consideration that just about all the swimming events revolve around the same concept, and the other games that don't revolve around hopeless button mashing have equally mundane gameplay concepts, then it's easy to see what the problem is in Athens However, you really can't fault the developers too much for the mundane game concepts.
Olympic events are, for the most part, simplistic and it's hard to transfer the strategy used in each event into an enjoyable videogame format. However, make no mistake: Athens is quite the bore no matter who or what you want to blame it on. Presentation-wise, Athens really falls flat on its face too. Kelly Whasserface winning those medallions for running fractionally faster than some other women. That rowing bloke crying. The daily drug scandals. The unforgettable antics of those lovable mascots Flob and Jizz or whatever they were called.
Yes Athens was certainly the most successful Olympic event ever held since the last one. Now, you or I may have thought that it would have made sense to release this cut-down version of the console non-hit while the actual drug-addled freaks of nature were still sunning themselves in Greece. More fool us. Obviously the head honchos at Eidos have identified that Olympic fever is at its highest some three months after the torch has burnt its last and when the new football season is well under way.
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