Gamesta.com has more on PQube. The publisher announced it will also go for gold with a separate Olympics title dubbed Athletics Tournament. On the other hand, it delayed racing title Crash Time 4 to June.
Electronic Theatre writes "The Crash Time videogame series doesn’t have the best reputation in the UK. Fitting somewhere between Midtown Madness and BurnOut – less gentle than the former but not quite as chaotic as the latter – the lack of marketing and reasonably low profile releases hasn’t persuaded public opinion to the point at which Crash Time could be considered a contender for the sales chart top spot, but in reality it’s not intended to. Crash Time is the B-Movie to Need for Speed’s Hollywood, the low budget indie flick picked-up by a big name publisher and given a mainstream audience the likes of which it could never possibly have expected."
For those gamers keen to get into the athletics frame-of-mind and not willing to wait for SEGA’s officially licensed effort, Summer Challenge Athletics Tournament isn’t a bad videogame by any means, though it is poorly judged in a number of respects. The most prominent of which is the difficulty. Summer Challenge Athletics Tournament is an accurate title, as the videogame is certainly challenging, but far too much so for any casual gamer.
With London 2012 Olympics just around the corner, European gaming website PlayDevil has posted an in depth review of the new "Summer Challenge Athletics Tournament".
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"It is hard to offer too much variety in athletics games as almost all have the same style of gameplay, this being predominantly stick waggling and button bashing. Summer Challenge Athletics Tournament replicates this gameplay style with a few minor differences such as quick time button presses during events such as trampolining although to be honest I find this format somewhat tired in this generation and perhaps one could expect something a little different from the gameplay style which has been evident for around thirty years."
