''Winter Sports 2: The Next Challenge'', known in Europe as ''Winter Sports 2009: The Next Challenge'', is a multi-sport simulation released in 2008 for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, Wii, and Nintendo DS. It was developed by German studio 49 Games and is the sequel to ''
Winter Sports: The Ultimate Challenge''. The game features 16 winter sports events in 10 different disciplines with 16 countries represented.
Sports and events
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Downhill skiing
Alpine skiing, or downhill skiing, is the pastime of sliding down snow-covered slopes on skis with fixed-heel Ski binding, bindings, unlike other types of skiing (Cross-country skiing, cross-country, Telemark skiing, Telemark, or ski jumping), w ...
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Super-G,
slalom
To slalom is to zigzag between obstacles. It may refer to:
Sports
;Alpine skiing and/or snowboarding
* Slalom skiing, an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding discipline
* Giant slalom, an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding discipline
* Super-G ...
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giant slalom
Giant slalom (GS) is an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding discipline. It involves skiing between sets of poles ("gates") spaced at a greater distance from each other than in slalom but less than in Super-G.
Giant slalom and slalom make up t ...
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Ski jumping
**Normal hill
**Large hill
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Snowboarding
Snowboarding is a recreational and competitive activity that involves descending a snow-covered surface while standing on a snowboard that is almost always attached to a rider's feet. It features in the Winter Olympic Games and Winter Paralympi ...
halfpipe
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Bobsledding
Bobsleigh or bobsled is a team winter sport that involves making timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sleigh. International bobsleigh competitions are governed by the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Feder ...
**Two-women
**Four-man
*Women's
luge
A luge is a small one- or two-person sled on which one sleds supine (face up) and feet-first. A luger steers by using the calf muscles to flex the sled's runners or by exerting opposite shoulder pressure to the seat. Racing sleds weigh for s ...
**Men's
skeleton
A skeleton is the structural frame that supports the body of an animal. There are several types of skeletons, including the exoskeleton, which is the stable outer shell of an organism, the endoskeleton, which forms the support structure inside ...
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Speed skating
**500m
**1500m
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Curling
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Biathlon
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Figure skating
Nations represented
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Austria
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Canada
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Finland
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France
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Germany
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Great Britain
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Italy
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Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
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Netherlands
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Norway
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Poland
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Russia
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Spain
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Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...
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Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
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United States
Reception
The DS and Wii versions received "mixed" reviews, while the PlayStation 2 and Xbox 360 versions received "generally unfavorable reviews", according to the
review aggregation website
Metacritic.
[ In Japan, where the Wii version was ported and published by Arc System Works on March 19, 2009, '' Famitsu'' gave it a score of all four sixes for a total of 24 out of 40.][
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See also
* Winter Sports: The Ultimate Challenge
References
External links
Conspiracy Entertainment's site
RTL Games's site (German)
Developer's site (German)
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2008 video games
Skiing video games
Wii games
PlayStation 2 games
Xbox 360 games
Nintendo DS games
Snowboarding video games
Figure skating video games
Video games developed in Germany
Conspiracy Entertainment games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Arc System Works games