Customer Reviews

ESPN Winter Sports 2002

5 star:		(1)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

This is one great game. It is lots of fun! It is loads better than Salt Lake City 2002, because it has more events, and the events are much better. This is a challenging game, with competitions that are hard, but can be easier depending on how much you practice the events, and which character you choose. It's hard to do well becasue each character has their different strengths. The only few things this game is lacking is the Olympic venues, real athletes, and a Create-A-Player mode. Create-A-Player would be nice. The following is the ratings of each event:

Downhill 8.5/10
This at first is hard to do, b/c you need to go fast and hit all, the gates, but once you get good, its rewarding.

Slalom 5/10
This is possibly the worst event. It's extremely hard to make all the gates, let alone while trying to score a fast time. Although, though I am not very good at it yet, it could be fun once you get good.

K90 7.5/10
An average event, not very hard to learn, and easy to get a silver medal in. Getting a gold is very hard, b/c the CPU is very tough.

K120 6.5/10
Again, an average event, a little weaker rating than the K90 b/c it is quite harder to do, b/c you have to keep pushing O and X.

Moguls 10/10
THIS IS GREAT. You have to make good turns all the way thru as well as performing tricks. There are 25 different tricks you can pull, but a few good ones are missing, such as the dinner roll. This one can be hard to do, but it is great fun.

Snowboard Halfpipe 9/10
This is also GREAT. It's fairly simple to learn, and there are 16 different tricks you can pull, which are all cool. Also, different countries have differnt tricks, so there are more than 16.

Speed Skating 5.5/10
Not very good. It's physically tiring. You have to push O & X alternately and slow down on the turns. I am glad this is only 500 meters, and not 10,000, otherwise my arms would fall off. This can be good if you have a fast skater.

Bobsleigh 8.5/10

This is fun to play, and easy to win if you dont hit any walls, or only hit a minimal amount. The downside is that this isn't very realistic. It has big hills and big drops, and no real bobsled course has that; just turns. Also, there are little things on the track that give you speed boosts, which don't occur in real life. Other than this, it is still fun and fairly easy.

Curling N/A
I haven't played this one yet b/c the other events are too fun, so I can't fairly give it a rating. My friend played halfway thru one match and it takes forever, so I don't play it.

Figure Skating 8.5/10
This is fun to do, and easy to win if you have good timing. You choose from 3 songs and press certain buttons to make your skater do certain things, and then you can do jumps and spins. I recommened that you choose the song "Bomber Night."

Extras-
There are 4 game modes: Trial, Head to Head, Men's Championship, & Women's Championship
Also, you can unlock certain "outfits". I have no idea what they are b/c I haven't unlocked any yet. You are also given a password at the end of a championship to post on the internet to compare you score to others around the world.

Overall, this game is a good buy, b/c it's fun and it's cheap.

This is a great game! It has ten events, each very fun. However, a create a player mode would be nice. A more realistic olympic compitition would be great. Also, IT NEEDS REAL ATHLETES!

Speed Skating 6/10
It's fun, but pressing O and X at various speeds isn't THAT fun.

Figure Skating 6/10
You have to press buttons at certain time to get the skater to do tricks. Not really that good.

Moguls 9/10
This is really fun. You can perform a ton of tricks of the two ramps. The turns with the L and R button are also nice.

Slalom 2/10
I HATE this event. It is impossible not to miss a gate. Ughhhh!

Downhill 4/10
It is is a little easier to not miss a gate, but it is still really hard.

Bobsleigh 8/10
This is another great event. At the start you press O and X rapidly and then L to get the each athlete in the bobsleigh. Then, you steer the Bobsleigh to the end.

Half-Pipe Snowboarding 6/10
It's okay... but it's not really that fun. You just have to press the right button at the right moment.

Ski Jumping K90 10/10
NO JOKE! This is one AMAZING event. First, you press the left and right control stick down to set the wind. Then, you hold them to to gain speed and push them both of when you get to the jump.Push them bothe slowly down as you fall to keep up with the yellow line. Press L or R to land.

Ski Jumping K120 4/10
This is what happens when you take K90, replace everything with button mashing, and excpect it to be fun. Ughhhh!

Curling 5/10
I know how to play but... It's not really all that fun in Winter Sports 2002. The computers are also unrealistically good.

Now that you have read my review, I hope you can make an honest decision.

I enjoy this game and it's not as much button mashing as one would think. Some events are better than others, but there is a good variety of different events, and several competition modes to keep things from getting repetitive. This is a good multiplayer game to compete with your friends, but is also interesting enough to play single player.

It doesn't really capture the Olympics as much as I would like, as there are only 8 nations represented and none of the Olympic venues or licensing, but this is a well presented and fun game that I would recommed for anyone looking to have a bit of the Winter Games experience at home.

ESPN International Winter Sports 2002 is preety dumb. There's no Olympic Athletics and that takes away alot. I was looking forward to Speed Skating with Apolo Onno but their was this guy that was not even a speed skater. So I moved on to snowboarding and their was that same guy. You don't see Apolo Onno snowboarding in the real Olympics! I tried every single event and their was that sam guy on EVERY event! ESPN could of made different people for each event! It's hard to control too. The only way I found to do snowboarding was push X, trangle, square, circle together then push Left, Right, Right.

DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT! GRAPHICS ARE GOOD BUT NOT THE GAME!!!

Consider...ESPN Winter Sports 2002 will have more events than Eidos' Salt Lake 2002 (10 vs. 6), and a better VARIETY of events (downhill, slalom, 4-man bobsled, snowboarding (halfpipe), 90 and 120m ski-jumping, freestyle moguls, 500m speedskating, ladies' figure skating and men's curling) vs. SLC 2002's multiple variations on skiing (men's downhill, women's slalom, men's snowboard parallel GS, women's freestyle aerials, 120m ski jumping and 2-man bobsled). It has only 2 game modes vs. SLC 2002's four, and the lack of a create-a-player feature will hurt, but I think this will be the better game. Konami's forays into the PS2 sports videogame realm have been hit and miss, mostly miss, with the exception of MLS Extra Time, the best soccer title of the 2000-01 season. Sure, SLC 2002 will have the actual venues of the Winter Games, but if you had a choice between seeing the venues and playing a diverse series of competitions, what would you buy? Thought so...