Well... it's much a better game than Hyper Olympic, at least.
Activision's Decathlon is a weird mix of good and bad design decisions. On one hand the events here are not needlessly embelished with complicated controls and all of them are easy to figure out from the get-go because they are all virtually identical. On the other hand the running events bring the durability of your analog stick into question: In order to run, you need to alternate left-right on your joystick as fast as possible.
My poor joystick could not handle this kind of torture so I played the running segments laying as low as possible. The absolute cream of the event has to be the last segment, the 1500m run, which is bound to grind your controller into dust and test your nerves with patience. 1500 metres of running and joystick mashing is simply too long and drab for any game, and when I was measuring it, my running lasted almost a full 4 minutes!!!
If you want to play this game, please show some love to your analog stick and play it on something that has a much more durable left-right input, like a keyboard.
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