Winter Challenge Demo

Although winter sports are a tad more popular in the countries where snow is more abundant, most people have tried a bit of skiing, or ice skating. However, the winter olympics feature much more daring sports, including bobsleighing and ski jumping, which require a lot of practice and spotless execution, given the high injury risk.

Winter Challenge is contains a wide variety of sports you can experience in a pretty realistic environment, including alpine skiing, bobsleigh, biathlon, ski jumping, and cross-country skiing. Naturally, each one of these comes with different rules and mechanics, which makes it that much more difficult to switch from one to the other without having a bit of practice first.

Not only that, but the game also provides you with a few hundred competitors and over two dozen national teams, all of which can be chosen to participate as. Since some sports are more popular than other, they might include fewer or a lot more competitors, so you should definitely not expect quite the same selection no matter what you choose to play.

Even if the game does not officially support any kind of dedicated controller, it is quite simple to operate the controls with the keyboard anyway. Naturally, some of the sports require a lot more precision and quick reflexes, while others like bobsleigh only need input to main the proper angle and avoid crashing into the nearby walls.

The visuals are sharp and one must appreciate the dedication of the level designers, in most cases. Each track and slope has been modeled according to the official ones, which includes buildings and vegetation. Naturally, it could have been a lot better when it comes to shaders and the rest of the high-end components, but you can do away with it like this as well.

In the end, Winter Challenge manages to pack a lot of fun in this simulator, even if some of the mechanics can be either too annoying, or too boring something. However, if you are a fan of the winter sports, then this is definitely something that should be on your virtual shelf.