With the Winter Olympics just around the corner, SEGA has only gone and released the official video title of the Games. But you won't find any of the truly joyous events like Curling, Ice Hockey or the Biathlon. Instead you'll find eight variations of skiing and snowboarding, two variations of speed skating, ski jumping and three variations of bobsleigh. These include luge (a quite ridiculous sport in which you throw yourself down a huge slippery slope on the equivalent of a dining tray, with precious little protecting your nether regions) and skeleton (just as silly as the luge with the added bonus of heading down face first).
PSX Extreme writes: "It seems that every time they try to do a game based on the Olympics, everything falls to pieces. The last attempt – centered on the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing – failed miserably due to ridiculous mechanics, clunky and sometimes impossible control, lackluster technicals and an almost complete lack of pageantry and theatricality. The latter is part of what makes the Olympics great, if we've already forgotten, and while Vancouver 2010 still lacks that, Eurocom made good strides in righting many of the past wrongs."
3djuegos: In an effort to recoup the mediocre Beijing 2008, SEGA revitalizes its Olympic franchise with a much greater Vancouver 2010. We are not in the final title of Olympic sports, but to a very serious leap forward and before a title is not negligible.
Mondoxbox: Vancouver 2010 offers fourteen disciplines including Downhill, Ski jumping, Snowboarding, Skating, Bobsleigh, Luge and Skeleton. These are playable in four different ways, Olympic Games, Training, Challenges and local and online multiplayer.
