Vancouver 2010

Rating: E

Score: 5.0/10

The Olympics are on their way, and the rather mediocre games have already arrived! I've already talked about Mario's and Sonic's (poor) Adventure to the Winter Olympics; how much better can the pros do it? This game is available on the Playstation 3, Xbox 360, and PC.

How much is to be expected, exactly? Well, let's take a quick look at the past Olympic Games. Actually, let's not, it'll be less painful for both of us. Quick summary, Olympic Games usually aren't very enjoyable, or unique, or impressive, or much like the games being emulated. The question is, how far does this game go to be different? Not...very far, a few millimetres, tops.

You have the basic events you'd expect: Alpine Skiing, Sledding, Freestyle Skiing, Snowboarding, Ski Jumping, and Speed Skating. What else, you ask? Sounds like someone needs to lower their expectations, because that's all. Each has two or three modes, but each of those sub-modes has the same basic gameplay, eliminating any need to play them all.

It's worth noting that you can play the events in third or first person view. It doesn't matter too much, but it is a cool little feature.

The winner of the competition will have their country's anthem played. Another nice touch, I suppose, but it doesn't add a lot to overall replay value or stop any of the games from being redundant and a notch above barely entertaining at best.

Once you've played some of those events...you've played the whole game. Other than just simply playing them, you can practice on them which is the same thing, only without the other people. Sure, it's helpful in the sense that there could be less stress to win, but there wasn't any in the first place. You can't eliminate stress that doesn't exist! If you failed, you could try again, no problem, no punishment.

The music deserves a mention for being above average (which isn't saying too much). It's a mix of somewhat-good songs to rather upbeat, and unfitting music for such games (i.e. "serious" Olympic Winter Games video games).

I suppose, seeing as there's little to discuss, I'll mention the title. I'm sure naming the game was puzzling, so they decided on a name with deep meaning, no doubt describing the designer's intense feelings for the game and the greatness of the overall game: Vancouver 2010. Duh, I wonder what it's about. It's like calling a Mario game "Mario", or calling a video game system "Video Game System", or every computer being called "Computer". Ok, I'm done milking that joke.

It's hard to review a video game based on Olympic games because there's nothing to compare it to, to be the "guiding light" that everyone rips off. There seems to be no game that shows, tried and true, a perfect, or even GOOD, game based on the Olympics. Watching the Olympics is more enjoyable. Go team Canada!

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