Sports Champions


Sports Champions is a 2010 sports video game developed by San Diego Studio and Zindagi Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3. It utilizes the PlayStation Move controller. The game is a collection of modern and medieval sports minigames. It was officially unveiled at the 2010 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco as a launch game for the PlayStation Move which would be bundled with the controller in several regions.

Gameplay

The game involves the player taking part in six unique sports games. However unlike Wii Sports, a similar collection of sports games for the Wii, the game consists of a series of modern as well as medieval sports. The game deviates from the norm by including uncommon sports such as Disc Golf and Bocce.
Unlike Wii Sports, Wii Sports Resort and Kinect Sports, players can't make their own avatar. Players can choose to participate as one of ten athletes in the various events. The game features three gameplay modes, Free Play, Challenge Mode and Champion Cup mode. In Free Play mode, players can play practice matches with their choice of gameplay options. Challenge mode allows players to compete in a series of events to increase their high scores. In Champion Cup mode, players compete against ten other athletes in an Olympic-like event to become the ultimate champion. Players can also take part in the various modes along with up to three other friends in the game's multiplayer mode.

Sports

  • Table tennis
  • Beach Volleyball
  • Gladiator Duel
  • Disc golf
  • Bocce
  • Archery

    Sequel

Sports Champions 2 was announced on May 31, 2012 on PlayStation Blog by a trailer. The trailer included skiing, boxing and many more sports for the user to play.

Reception

The game received "generally favorable reviews" according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. In Japan, where the game was ported for release on October 21, 2010, Famitsu gave it a score of 31 out of 40.
Joystiq said: "Sports Champions is a great pack-in for Move and well worth buying on its own if you go the a la carte route with the hardware." Game Informer said: "Despite some missteps, Sports Champions is a solid offering for gamers, provided you can accept the shallow nature of a compilation such as this." IGN said: "Sports Champions is fun, but it's rough around the edges. The gameplay is solid for the most part and will provide you with some good times." GameSpot said: "Sports Champions is undoubtedly one of the strongest launch offerings for the PlayStation Move hardware. This isn't a game that you're likely to play solo for any serious amount of time, but it's certainly one that you'll keep coming back to in short bursts and anytime you have interested friends or relatives visiting."