With the next edition of the Summer Olympic Games fast-approaching, Japanese multinational video game developer and publisher Sega has announced its launch of ‘Olympic Games Tokyo 2020: The Official Video Game.’
Designed for PlayStation 4 and Switch, the game will be available in Japan as of July 24th and will cost approximately 4,990 yen (~$45 USD). A Western release of the multi-sport simulation is planned for 2020, just in time for some mad taper game playing.
Among track and field events, tennis, ping pong beach volleyball and other sports is swimming’s 200m IM, which you can see in the promo video below at approximately 1:05. 15 Olympic events in total can be contested via the game.
The actual competitive venues slated for the Games are realistically reproduced in the Sega game, including the Olympic Stadium. Per Sega, ‘with Avatar Creation, anyone can participate in the Olympics. Freely choose your face and physique to customize your very own avatar from various parts including the basics like hair style, eyes, and nose, as well as a variety of other elements like glasses, facial hair, and face paint.’ (Gematsu)
we really need a swimming game
maybe eventually when ISL takes off we can have game like 2k.
I would love a college swimming game like the old NCAA Football games. Have the recruiting element involved, scouting prospects, looking at times and improvement curves and then writing lineups for dual meets, conference meets and NCAA meets. Could be a blast.
Sounds terrible, but that is part of the reason behind why I coach. I love strategizing meet lineups. Would love a game that could replicate it but it would probably be more of a computer simulation than a console. Converting swimming to console play is clunky. The only thing that made some sense was a Kinect or motion based game.
mario and sonic at the olympic games put up a respectful repertoire of swimming events
Track and field 2 for Nintendo did have a swimming event as well…only 100 free as I recall. Also I remember hammer throw, hang gliding, arm wrestling and kayaking. It was fun and workout if u had the stomp pad thing
This looks great but the all time best Olympic video game was Capcom gold medal challenge 1992 for Nintendo entertainment system.