Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 - The Official Video Game | |
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Developer(s) | Sega |
Publisher(s) | Sega |
Director(s) | Hitoshi Furukubo |
Producer(s) | Nobuya Ohashi |
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Programmer(s) | Motoyoshi Sato |
Artist(s) | Takayuki Iwasaki |
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Release | Nintendo Switch, PS4Windows, Xbox One, Stadia
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Genre(s) | Sports |
Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 - The Official Video Game is an Olympic video game developed and published by Sega. The game was originally released in Japan for the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 on July 24, 2019. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic delaying the start of the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, the game was not released outside of Japan and East Asia until June 2021, when it also released for Windows, Stadia, and Xbox One. The game features 80 national teams and 18 events.
The following events are in the game: four additional sports were added to the game as updates. [1]
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^§ : Later added as downloadable content.
The game features 80 playable nations, making it the most playable nations that have ever been in an Olympics video game.
Aggregator | Score |
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Metacritic | PC: 56/100 [2] PS4: 71/100 [3] XONE: 66/100 [4] NS: 70/100 [5] |
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Destructoid | 5/10 [6] |
Push Square | [7] |
The Switch version received 80% from Digitally Downloaded, who said that "one of the areas that Tokyo 2020 immediately stands out is that it has a good range of different sports represented, and they all play differently." They went on to praise the presentation and the customisation, adding that "as a single player game it's a little lonely and limited." [8]
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