Binding: Video Game Brand: Sega EAN: 5060138438552 Label: Sega Manufacturer: Sega Platform: PLAYSTATION 3 Publisher: Sega Release Date: June 27, 2008 Sales Rank: 723 Studio: Sega
Editorial Review:
Amazon.co.uk
Embrace the competitive spirit of the world’s most prestigious sporting event and represent your country and bring home the gold
Appearing on next gen consoles for the first time, Beijing 2008 delivers an entertaining and immersive Olympic experience. The superior graphics capture the fine emotional detail of each event where a fraction of a second means the difference between winning and losing. The Innovative game mechanics challenge a player’s time, speed and co-ordination. Compete for glory with up to seven friends online; strive to break records as you lead your country to victory. This summer show your patriotism and bring home the gold!
38 Official Events: Across ten Olympic disciplines, represent the country of your choice and compete for honour in Track and Field, Aquatics, Gymnastics, Cycling, Judo, Table tennis, Kayaking and many more.
In depth Career and Competition modes: Organise your daily schedule and customize your chosen team with agility, power, stamina and speed for competition in over 38 events. Or in competition mode participate with up to three friends in either a single or multi-event challenge.
Innovative Gameplay Mechanics: Use a variety of controls across all the events including a time based system where timing, power and angle are essential, rhythm based play that requires skill of increasing and maintaining speed, and a targeting system to assist in aiming.
Global Online Competition: Choose your country and become a member of the Olympic team and face challenges from across all nations. A multitude of online features such as exhibition events, ghost times and leader boards will allow players to prove themselves before the world.
Capturing the Olympic Spirit: The official video game of the Beijing Olympics 2008 offers full branding, realistic recreations of the official Olympic stadiums. The game offers you a chance to soak up the atmosphere of this prestigious worldwide and bring home the gold!
Tagline: One World, One Dream, One Game
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - A game for sports, the olympics (summer games) fans and groups
Online play is the worst I've ever witnessed in my life. This is a game for sports, the olympics (summer games) fans and groups of friends sitting in the same room.
Rating: - Breaking your controller has never been so fun
When I first downloaded the demo for this - I was skeptical. But, after inviting 3 of my mates round we were hooked on it. The 3 games in the demo had us entertainned for hours! Even tough so parts are hard, the makers have done a good job varying the controls so theres soemthing in it for everyone.
With 4 people in total playing it is an awesome experience...in fact, we even dropped playing Motorstorm Pacific rift to play this! Its that good with 4 people!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rating: - Shallow fun
This is a classic old school athletics game. In essence it's not really changed since the old Daily Thompson game on the Spectrum. There's a whole lot of waggling and button mashing.
There's nearly 40 events, but a lot of them are very similar. The more unique ones (table tennis) are have been done very quickly and somewhat poorly. The highlights being the sprint running.
THere's an amount of randomness and lack of skill in many events. THe 1500m you can be far behind up to ... Read More
Rating: - beijing 2008 not for part time gamers
I bought this game after being caught up in olympic fever, if you work full time and only play games occasionally i would not recommend this game at all. It's far too hard, with no adjustable skill settings. If you dont have the time to spend days and weeks honing your finger speed then all you'll end up with is 15s 100m runs and 3m long jumps. Yet some disciplines are a lot easier than others, my first throw on the javelin was 92m yet i cant win single point at table tennis. A lot of inconsistency, but ... Read More
Rating: - DO NOT BUY
Why is it that people who make these games seem to fail on every single one. The controls on this are awful. I actually tore the palm of my hand open playing on one of the running events. The other option is to button bash which makes me thing back to my days of playing Daley Thompsons Decathlon on the ZX Spectrum.That says it all the controls on this game were rubbish 20 years ago so button basher games like this still suck now, so why not create a new control set? The fact that this game is actually very ... Read More
- Breaking your controller has never been so fun
- Shallow fun
- DO NOT BUY