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Future Online
Issue 71 - March 23, 2000
 
Review
Barbie Super Sports
PlayStation Price: £20 From: Sony
Players: 1-4 Age: N/A Release: April 21




You can brush her hair, undress her anywhere. Except you can't. Bugger.
Sue Denim

Barbie Super Sports conjures up ideas of a lycra-clad blonde either strutting her stuff Pammy style on the beach, hitting the slopes looking for a little off piste action, or at the very least sporting some very skimpy sports gear - but no. It's aimed at a young female audience and as such contains no gratuitous boob, bum or money shots. With this in mind we hoped that there would be plenty of other gaming goodies on offer to make up for it.

Sadly, after loading the game up you'll notice that there doesn't actually seem to be an awful lot to it. Super Sports only just manages to make it into plurals at all, with just two not-so-super activities available, these being the very '80s inline skating and the oh-so-'90s snowboarding. Still, with only two sports on offer one would assume there's still a great deal to come. First up you need to select which of the sports you're going to try out, and having made the tough decision, you'll then move on to the shop to buy your equipment and, of course, spend some time dressing Barbie in all the different outfits.

You're then ready to move onto either the slopes for some boarding or the skate park for some inlineing. Each has a practice area where you can get to grips with Barbie's very basic moves. Although she's able to perform tricks, going over fly off-style ramps and halfpipes, you don't have any control over them, taking away much of the fun usually found in these kind of games. Somewhat disillusioned with this, you're given the choice of four other areas to explore, three of which are immediately accessible and another which has to be unlocked.

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