Torino 2006 (video game)

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Torino 2006
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Developer(s) 49Games
Publisher(s) 2K
Platform(s) Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, Xbox
Release
  • AU: January 20, 2006 [1]
  • NA: January 25, 2006 [2]
  • EU: January 27, 2006 [2]
Genre(s) Sports
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

Torino 2006 is the official video game of the XX Olympic Winter Games, hosted by Torino, Italy in 2006. Developed by German studio 49Games and published by 2K (and I-play), it was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, and Xbox. It is the first licensed Olympic video game to be released on a Microsoft home console, since a planned Xbox version of the prior installment, Salt Lake 2002 , was cancelled.

Contents

Venues

In the video game, the venues are based on the real life. They are:

Playable nations

Playable countries Torino2006map.png
Playable countries

There is a total of 24 playable countries in the game. They are:

Specials

These are teams which represent other regions, and in some cases, are the same as the aforementioned nations, simply with different costumes. They can be unlocked by completing certain challenges. They are:

Competitions

In Torino 2006, you can play in a single event, 9-event competition or a 15-event competition. Alternatively, you can make your own by selecting "Customise Competition" from the main menu.

Commentators

In Torino 2006, there are five languages to choose from, and each has two commentators. They are:

Reception

Torino 2006 received "generally unfavorable reviews" on all platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. [6] [7] [8]

Detroit Free Press gave the Xbox version a score of two stars out of four and said, "Button-mashing is almost nonexistent. That's a big change from Athens 2004 , the last Olympics game I played, which required you to hit buttons frantically to make your athlete move." [22] The Times gave the game two stars out of five and said, "The result in single-player mode is a messy, unresponsive mass of button-pushing and frantic joystick-twiddling that evolves from impossible to challenging to repetitive and dull in less than an hour." [23] The Sydney Morning Herald gave it one-and-a-half stars out of five and said that the game "makes it about as exciting as lying in an empty bath and pretending it's the luge, or sticking your head in the freezer and singing Advance Australia Fair." [24] The A.V. Club gave it an F and called it "a game more excruciating than an evening of ice-dancing preliminaries." [25]

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