Winter Sports 2011 is the ultimate challenge for casual gamers and sport fans, that includes the nine winter sport disciplines. Thanks to improved multiplayer mode it offers more direct interaction with the players opponents. Thus, there are several disciplines, like snowboard cross, in which all players can participate simultaneously. In each competition, whether multiplayer or single player, players can choose from a variety of tactical possibilities, as for example skating in slipstreams, turbo or hard physical impacts. Moreover, every fair or unfair behavior affects the qualities and the appearance of the players.
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German developers 49 games are back with a 3rd iteration of this winter sports franchise. Snowboard , bobsleigh and ski your way through a variety of different competitions and challenges. With 3 games being released in 3 years it seems like they were trying to make this a yearly franchise. However, looking on true achievements at the number of players we can see it failed. This is one of the games with the least players on the console and there are quite a few reasons for that. The first I want to point out, is that like it's predecessor 2010, they have severely reduced the number of sports available to play. Down to a measly 9. Secondly, it is weirdly only available in the pal regions. Another problem is the games themselves. They range from fun but way to easy, like figure skating, meaning you will get a gold medal on your first attempt. Others are rock solid like bobsleighing, which is very poorly explained leaving players a bit bewildered. It also commits the cardinal sin of being nearly exactly the same as the previous year. Sure they added a team upgrade, so you can upgrade individual team members. For example I chucked all my points into my bobsleigh dude so it wasn't impossible any more. They also have new challenges, but they seem exactly the same as the previous challenges. It's hardly enough to make it worth a purchase. Finally, I have to add how vomit inducing these cut scenes are. They somehow are both extremely bland and totally offensive at the same time. Never have I hated poorly rendered sports people more. To sum up, it's basically the same game as 2010, which was basically a worse version of 2009 with added online play. Americans, don't worry, you aren't missing out with this one.