What an awful game.....

User Rating: 2.2 | Torino 2006 - The Official Video Game of the XX Olympic Winter Games PC
By D1rty_Dawg | Review Date:
I used to love playing Winter Olympic games in days of old. It is the closest I can get to the Olympics here in the UK so i thought that this year i would get whatever game was out and join in.

So it is with great regret that I admit that I actually paid proper money for this game, almost $40 would you believe it!

I got it home all excited, loaded it up and then within about 5 minutes was wondering if I could get it back in the packaging and return it to the store.

What amazed me first of all is that for a lot of the events you have to pummel your keyboard in a 'Daily Thompson Decathlon' style to make your badly drawn and animated character do anything. It brought back memories but I am past this style of play, about 10 years ago in fact.

Then there are the rest of the events where you are hardly interacting at all. The only good parts are the downhill skiing where at least you can do the event that it says you are doing.

Oh yeah, the commentary will drive you mad, to the point where you will just turn the sound of on your PC.

Don't buy this game, it may be official and licensed and all that but it sucks!

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    By mountaingoatman | Review Date: Feb 12, 2006 | PC

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