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Track & Field II

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Platform NES Year 1988
Publisher Konami Developer Konami
Region NA Language English
Tags Action, Sports, Mini-games, Olympics, Two Player, Simultaneous Multiplayer
Related Track & Field (NES) Track & Field (GB) 
Platform NES
Year 1988
Publisher Konami
Developer Konami
Region NA
Language English
Tags Action, Sports, Mini-games, Olympics, Two Player, Simultaneous Multiplayer
Related Track & Field (NES)Track & Field (GB)

A follow-up to Konami's Track & Field, this sequel has twelve events including Fencing, Triple Jump, Freestyle Swimming, High Dive, Clay Pigeon Shooting, Hammer Throw, Taekwondo, Pole Vault, Canoeing, Archery, Hurdles, Horizontal Bar. Archery and Triple Jump appear in both the original as well as the sequel.
 
Good Bad
  • More detailed graphics
  • Voice lines in some events
  • Archery is improved
  • Audio clues only on when to start a race
  • Some of the events are unnecessarily complex
  • Less intuitive controls
  • Two player versus mode only has three events (Fencing, Taekwondo, and Arm Wrestling)
Good
  • More detailed graphics
  • Voice lines in some events
  • Archery is improved
 
Bad
  • Audio clues only on when to start a race
  • Some of the events are unnecessarily complex
  • Less intuitive controls
  • Two player versus mode only has three events (Fencing, Taekwondo, and Arm Wrestling)
 
6 There are plenty of improvements over it's predecessor however the unintuitive controls and increased complexity make this a more difficult game to recommend.

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