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- Platform: PlayStation 3
- Media: Video Game
- Item Quantity: 1
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Platform: PLAYSTATION 3
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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
Product Description
Embrace the competitive spirit of the world's most prestigious sporting event and represent your country and bring home the gold.
Appearing on the PlayStation 3 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 customise your chosen team with agility, power, stamina and speed for competition in over 38 events. 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 2008 Olympics, Beijing 2008 offers full branding and realistic recreations of the official Olympic stadiums. The game offers y
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21 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Platform for Display:PLAYSTATION 3
Fun:
It's the olympics again and as usual there is a video game to go with it.
Athens 2004 set a bench mark for Olympic video games as it improved the gameplay from Sydney 2000 alot, making it accessable for every type of gamer. Beijing has made improvements but has also altered areas that worked fine on the previous game.
Beijing consists of all the Olympic events featured in the last game and Sydney 2000, with many more new events included. There is something for everyone.
My problem is the controls. The button bashing element, which is quite simple, seems much the same as Athens 2004, but try the hammer throw, Judo and Kayaking. These events are very difficult indeed and are near impossible. It takes hours of practice to get to grips with the dificult controls. In some cases the instructions aren't made that clear either, although you can access the tutorial for each event before the action kicks off. Its certain to say that you can't pick up and play this game straight away. Athens controls were challenging at times, but were much easier to pick up. But it is fair to say, some evlemts in this game are easier then others. The controls will certainly test the strength of the controllers.
The visuals are brilliant and the detail of the players and their surroundings are amazing. The menus aren't the best I've seen, but then again that doesn't matter.
The internet gaming will be excellent, when slight glitches are fixed. Your best times are only included in the online scoreboard after training mode, and not in competition, something that needs seeing too. Whilst online you can spend alot of time waiting around for everyone to say they are ready to start, instead of an automatic counter. Also when you start an event, you can be waiting forever for the gun to sound, causing online gamers to shout random things through your headsets.
The online element will be great when it gets fixed, but for now there is still the indepth single player game to play, which is very challenging. Overall, the game is enjoyable, especially when playing with a friend, but it isn't a great improvement on Athens 2004. If you have that, don't bother.
Athens 2004 set a bench mark for Olympic video games as it improved the gameplay from Sydney 2000 alot, making it accessable for every type of gamer. Beijing has made improvements but has also altered areas that worked fine on the previous game.
Beijing consists of all the Olympic events featured in the last game and Sydney 2000, with many more new events included. There is something for everyone.
My problem is the controls. The button bashing element, which is quite simple, seems much the same as Athens 2004, but try the hammer throw, Judo and Kayaking. These events are very difficult indeed and are near impossible. It takes hours of practice to get to grips with the dificult controls. In some cases the instructions aren't made that clear either, although you can access the tutorial for each event before the action kicks off. Its certain to say that you can't pick up and play this game straight away. Athens controls were challenging at times, but were much easier to pick up. But it is fair to say, some evlemts in this game are easier then others. The controls will certainly test the strength of the controllers.
The visuals are brilliant and the detail of the players and their surroundings are amazing. The menus aren't the best I've seen, but then again that doesn't matter.
The internet gaming will be excellent, when slight glitches are fixed. Your best times are only included in the online scoreboard after training mode, and not in competition, something that needs seeing too. Whilst online you can spend alot of time waiting around for everyone to say they are ready to start, instead of an automatic counter. Also when you start an event, you can be waiting forever for the gun to sound, causing online gamers to shout random things through your headsets.
The online element will be great when it gets fixed, but for now there is still the indepth single player game to play, which is very challenging. Overall, the game is enjoyable, especially when playing with a friend, but it isn't a great improvement on Athens 2004. If you have that, don't bother.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Platform for Display:PLAYSTATION 3
Fun:
I am not a game person but as a first timer this was fun.. challenging and endless entertainment. THough the instructions are not always clear I did manage to figure all out.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Platform for Display:PLAYSTATION 3
Fun:
Too many sports covered but too little fun. The will to cover all the olympic sports doesn't surely allowed the game programmers to make each one fun enough to be played. If there's one thing I hate is to hammer the controler to be able to run - that's a hassle.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Satisfied with my purchase
I was looking for a sports game to play with my girlfriend and found this game for a reasonable price, with satisfactory reviews, so I got it. Read more
Published 1 month ago by wolfkost
Good except for one major flaw
This game is a very enjoyable source of entertainment when in groups. It stimulates competition within the society and is quite an accurate representation of sports within the... Read more
Published 5 months ago by polevaultstinks2011
I dont like sports but I like this game!
Not being a sports fan in any way I wasn't sure if buying this game would be a waste of money. I was glad I was wrong. Read more
Published 17 months ago by A.Kennedy
Beijing 2008
It's a very funny game because we can challenge my partner every night and after ! :) not so intelligence gameplay though but a lot of fun due to challenges !
Published 20 months ago by Vasilis Priftis
fun fun fun
this is the most fun game ever and is great as i can still play it now ,after i get easily bored of almost every game. Read more
Published 21 months ago by cal
Pad breaker lol
Arrived on time...Got it as I had the old Track and Field game on the PS2 and thought I'd give this a go... Read more
Published on 25 Oct 2009 by Nibz
Good Fun
Having purchased the PS3 recently, this was the first game i bought,
it takes a little getting used to and can give u a wrist ache lol.. Read more
it takes a little getting used to and can give u a wrist ache lol.. Read more
Published on 2 Oct 2009 by jessica stevenson
my olympics!!!
I bought this game on the recomendation of a friend,but it does take a while to get any good and you do need to read the instructions.
Published on 23 Sep 2009 by J. Hutchinson
do not buy.
the controls on this game are absouloutly terrible well to hard especially things like running etc. i thought this game would be good but i was wrong. Read more
Published on 2 Jun 2009 by Mrs. Wendy Anthony
Worth the Blisters? Nobody said performing in the Olympics was easy!
I believe this this is a great game. For the £10 it is currently going for i think it represents excellent value for money as there are just so many different events! Read more
Published on 13 May 2009 by Jon
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