Athletics Live: Track & Field

About the Game

Athletics Live is a serious, skill-based athletics game where you compete in every event yourself. Mash the buttons to sprint, hold your nerve on the start line, time the dip at the finish, and pull off the perfect take-off and release. Training raises your ceiling; your speed and accuracy decide the result.

Not just the 100 m. Every event on the programme is in the game for men and women.

• Sprints: 100 m, 200 m, 400 m

• Hurdles: 100 m / 110 m hurdles and the 400 m hurdles

• Middle and long distance: 800 m, 1500 m, 5000 m, 10000 m and the 3000 m steeplechase

• Relays: 4 x 100 m and 4 x 400 m, with real baton changes

• Jumps: long jump, triple jump, high jump and pole vault

• Throws: shot put, discus, hammer and javelin

• Indoor season: 60 m, 60 m hurdles and the indoor events on banked 200 m tracks

• Decathlon and heptathlon with real scoring tables

Most athletics games stop at the straight. Here every race is run on a real 400 m track. The 200 m and 400 m have staggered starts and run round the bend in lanes. The 800 m breaks for the inside after the first bend.

From the 800 m up to the 10000 m you race in a pack. Watch your energy gauge, tuck in behind a rival to draft, steer out to overtake and avoid getting boxed in. Then pick your moment to kick for home. Front-runners, kickers and pacers all race to their own plan, and you have to beat them at it.

The 3000 m steeplechase is in too, with 28 barriers and 7 water jumps. Long races can be run in full, or watched as highlights before you take over for the last laps.

Every event is speed, then accuracy: mash for power, then as few timed presses as possible. 45° is always the best angle, so you don't need to study the physics to win. Just be fast and be precise. Play with classic button mashing, the analogue stick, or an optional rhythm mode. Your records count the same whichever you choose.

Pick your events and build a team. Take them from the Club Championships through the Regional and National Championships, the Grand Prix, the Continental Games and the World Championships to the Global Games. Qualify event by event, run real heats, semis and finals, beat your rivals, and train between tournaments. There's an Indoor Tour too.

Walk out of the tunnel to a full stadium and hear your name called in the introductions.

Every tournament has its own TV coverage, from the club's own stream to the Global Games world feed. There are nine venues, from a small club track to a 50,000-seat stadium, plus floodlit nights, wet tracks and wind. Win, and you stand on the podium as your flag goes up.

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Two players can race on one screen, or friends can join with Steam Remote Play Together. Online lobbies hold up to 32 players, with full rounds of heats, semi-finals and a final, and AI to fill the empty lanes.

Chase your personal bests, your country's records, the game records and the world records. Beat a real world record and the record book changes to your name.