It's been a fair old while since we last saw an athletics game, so we're intrigued by today's announcement by Sony that they pla♑n to release a PS2 title based on this year's Olympics called, ob♛viously enough, Athens 2004.

Due for re🌃lease in July, the game features seven venues - the Olympic Stadium for athletics, the ⭕Markopoulo Olympic Shooting Centre, the Olympic Aquatic Centre, the Nikaia Olympic Weightlifting Hall, the Olympic Indoor Hall for gymnastics, the Markopoulo Olympic Equestrian Centre and the historic Panathinaiko Stadium for archery.

There's a huge range of events on offer, including four different swimming events, tꦕrack and field competitions, the decathlon and heptathlon, gymnastics, archery, shooting, weightlifting and even sh☂ow jumping.

While events like archery and shooting will be fairly obvious from a gameplay point of view, it'll be interesting to see how developers Eurocom decide to tackle pursuits such a♔s the track events. Let's hope it doesn't just degenerate into Daley Thompson's Decathlon-style button bashing.

Athens 2004 will be released for PS2 in July