Playman Power Games (Mobile)

GameSpot editors' review

• CNET editors' rating: 3.0 stars Good
  Detailed editors' rating
  Overall score: 6.0 (3.0 stars)

• Reviewed by:
  Jeff Gerstmann
• Reviewed on: 08/17/2004
• Updated on: 08/18/2004
• Originally published on GameSpot: Playman Power Games (Mobile) Review

Playman Power Games is a simple collection of four Olympic-style sporting events. The game is colorful and moves well. Controlling the events is a timing-based endeavor, but the timing is supereasy to grasp, so most players will be done with these four events in an hour or less.

Cycling is a bike race against the clock. You watch a meter and press the 4 and 6 keys at different points on the meter. If your timing is on point, the bike speeds up. If you miss a press, the bike slows down. The shot put event uses a similar circular meter to govern the distance you throw a shot put. You'll press the 4 key twice on a meter, then throw by pressing the 6 key when the meter lines up properly. The weightlifting event challenges you to hold up a set of weights for as long as possible. You'll do this by balancing a line on a meter. Wall climbing is probably the least interesting of the events. You'll just have to line up an arrow with the next grab point on a wall in order to ascend more quickly than you would by just doing nothing.

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