Olympic Challenge

Posted on August 22, 2008 - Filed Under Flash, Free Games, Sports |

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Olympic Challenge is a flash-based web game that contains three Olympic games to compete in. The three challenges are the hurdles, sailing and shot put.

The hurdles are the easiest to compete in, but it did take me a few times of missing the hurdles before I got the timing down. Of course, if you do not get the timing correct, you will hit the hurdle and the crowd gets angry at you and your runner slows down. The hurdler moves by himself, but the player has to press the space bar to get him to jump over the hurdles. Holding the space bar for different amounts of time causes the hurdler to jump shorter or longer. The shorter the player holds the space bar the shorter jump the hurdler makes and the longer the player holds the space bar the longer the hurdler jumps. Players can beat their own records and try and beat the other hurdlers in the race. The world record and Olympic records appear at the bottom of the screen, so the player can attempt to beat those records as well. Olympic Challenge

The sailing game is very challenging, at least it was for me. The goal of the game is to get your sail boat around the track by using the z and x keys to change the position of your sail and the right and left arrow keys to steer the boat. I could not get the boat to move anywhere. I guess I am sailing challenged. Similar to the hurdles, the player is racing against other sail boats and trying to win. I couldn’t get the boat to even move let alone win.

I was able to figure out the shot put, but I will admit it took me a few times. The goal is to use as much power as possible to throw the shot put ball without going outside the circle and causing a fault. The player holds down the space bar to get as much power as possible without leaving the boundaries of the circle, until you get to the “throw cone” in the circle then you leave the boundaries, which causes the shot putter to throw the ball. Players compete to break their own records, but are also looking to throw further than the opponent. The world records and Olympic records appear at the bottom of the screen, so if you are feeling extra strong you can attempt to beat those records, as well.

The shot put and hurdle games in Olympic Challenge were fun to play and a bit on the addicting side. The addictive nature of the games comes from trying to beat the records. I never came close to beating the Olympic or world records, but I still had fun. If you are in the Olympic spirit and are looking to compete, virtually, in your own games, check out Olympic Challenge.

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