With career, cup and campaign modes, as well as a 4-player online and split-screen multiplayer component, Winter Sports 2010 offers a range of challenges as it simulates eight winter sport disciplines, including downhill skiing, biathlon, bob-sledding and figure skating.
The career mode boasts an RPG-style upgrade and EXP system giving you access to such items as a rumble pack that makes you immune to jostling in the likes of short track speed skating, or a magic glove which gives you the ability to navigate around tight corners at speed. In career mode the disciplines are bundled into five groups that ascend in difficulty levels from easy to extreme. As you attempt to rise from amateur status to world champion you gain medals along the way as you compete against four national teams in 16 competitions modelled on the real event.
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.
