Athens 2004 (video game)

Athens 2004
Developer(s)	Eurocom
Publisher(s)	Sony Computer Entertainment
Platform(s)	PC, PlayStation 2
Release	2004
Genre(s)	Sports (Olympic)
Mode(s)	Single player, multi player

Athens 2004 is the official video game of the 2004 Summer Olympics, featuring various track and field events, as well as others.

Reception

The reception of the game was quite mixed, one example being IGN,^[1] criticising the game for it's ever-repeating button mashing and overall easiness of the game, awarding the game a "poor" 4.5 rating, as opposed to GameSpy,^[2] who praised the game for its varying gameplay, awarding it 4/5 stars. Many users ahve reyurned tyheir copies of the game for £1.50 because the agme is shit. All you do is press buttons, the highlight being the 800m race where you push the analog stick and wait for 2 minutes for the race to fimnish, this game is very hard to beat because of the complexity of the controling system and so ali gamming network gave it a 2/10

List of events

Following is a list of events in the game. By default, all events are available for both sexes unless otherwise noted:

• Track
  • Sprints: 100 metres, 200 metres and 400 metres
  • Middle distance: 800 metres and 1500 metres
  • Hurdles: 100 metres hurdles for women and 110 metres hurdles for men
• Field
  • Jumping: Long jump, triple jump, high jump and pole vault
  • Throwing: Discus throw, javelin throw and shot put
• Swimming
  • 100 metres breaststroke, freestyle, backstroke and butterfly
• Gymnastics
  • Artistic: Floor exercise (separate gameplay for male and female), still rings (men only) and vault
• Equestrian
  • Show jumping (male only)
• Weight lifting
  • +105 kg. clean and jerk (male only)
• Archery
  • 70 m individual (female only)
• Shooting
  • Skeet shooting (male only)

See also

• Olympic video games
• 2004 Summer Olympics

External links

Reviews

• Athens 2004 (PS2) reviews from GameStats
• Athens 2004 (PC) reviews from Gamestats