Summer Athletics 2009
Summer Athletics: The Ultimate Challenge is a collection of sports events based on the Olympic Summer Games. It features 28 sports divided into eight disciplines: Swimming, jumping, throwing, cycling, running…
Summer Athletics 2009 is a sport developed by 49Games, released 24 July 2009 on Wii, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Summer Athletics 2009 is
Summer Athletics 2009 is a sport game developed by 49Games and released in 2009. It was published by dtp entertainment AG. It is available on Wii, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Summer Athletics: The Ultimate Challenge is a collection of sports events based on the Olympic Summer Games. It features 28 sports divided into eight disciplines: Swimming, jumping, throwing, cycling, running, platform diving, archery and the new skeet shooting (two variants). The handling is similar for all of them: rhythmic motions to keep the athlete moving and quick time events (pressing a button when it gets displayed on the screen) for performing certain actions. The mentioned rhythmic motions depend on the input device the player uses, e.g. at the swimming event the player needs to press two buttons alternately when using a keyboard and rotate the analog sticks when using a gamepad…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative and Single player.
How it was received
Summer Athletics 2009 holds a critic score of 50 out of 100. That places it above 12% of the 1,610 rated sport games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 17 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Summer Athletics 2009 launched on 24 July 2009, within three weeks of Wii Sports Resort, Trine, The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition and G-Force. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Wii Sports Resort, Trine, The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition, G-Force.
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