Cross Country - The Video Game - Turns 5 - You Can Now Race XC Cross Country Racing at Illinios' Famed Detweiller Park

It would be cool if the game didn't suck...

The problem with Athletics Videogames: it's all about physical performance. Same for Swimming.

There are no tactics. No strategy. It's not like Soccer, Football, Volleyball, Basketball, Handball, Tennis... and even most of these sports don't have decent Video games. No good Volleyball videogame. Same for Handball.

In the end, it's all about spamming the buttons as fast as you can. Sometimes they ask for you do it in a cordinated manner, but that's it.

I enjoyed playing these games as a kid as well, but I would always get blisters.

Should be a training RPG

The Beijing summer Olympics game for the PlayStation had the 800m event and it was the closest thing to the best distance running video game I have ever played.

But did you use a comb to hack your button presses when you played "Track & Field?" We need to know your level of committment...

(Placing my quarter on the ledge that displays the game title and awaiting an answer.)

Have you even tried this game lol? If you spam buttons you’ll be out front in no man’s land and quickly lose all your stamina. The whole point is drafting and strategicly conserving your stamina.

The game would consist of avoiding getting a positive test

How about a cross country coaching video game where you're the coach of a high school team and your best runner is a bro who doesn't really like running and you have to convince him it's a great sport and actually really fun?

Another scenario could be that you have 4 really great runners, but your 5th runner is a huge pus$y but you can't tell him that because he's 17. You have a super freshmen who is almost as good so you're praying that the frosh improves by the end of the season enough so that you can trophy at state, but first you have to decide whether it makes sense to run 5x800m or 6x800m this week (the boys have been looking tired).

I like QWOP because it requires something besides pressing two buttons really quickly

As if xc didn't have a dorky enough connotation, nobody cool is playing this game.

I tried it out and have some initial feedback as a middle aged guy:

the customize your runner screen seemed kind of clunky and most people aren’t going to want to pay for that before even trying the game out.

The controlling was awkward and easy to oversteer at first but no worse than auto racing games.

i thought the length of the game was perfect: long enough to feel like a distance race but not too long.

overall I thought it was pretty cool and I’ll play it again.

Umamusume is better

Any cross country game should be about recruiting - Kenyans.

I wipe the ball sweat with my blistered fingers as I stare at the screen being rank 1 in online cross country

This guy has a day job, right?

Thete are treadmill virtual platforms, rouvy, zwift, mywhoosh you can get more of a realistic feel with

The older versions of video games were much simpler but in many ways better. Yet I sold one for about $9.00 that is worth about $200 today.