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Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

19 reviews
Sales Rank: 300

Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: sports-and-oudoors-games
Media: Video Game
Operating System: Xbox 360
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6

EAN: 5060138438637
ASIN: B0014W8QRM

Release Date: June 27, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: complete with box and instructions in all round very good condition

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Editorial Reviews:

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

Customer Reviews: Read 10 more reviews...

2 out of 5 stars

Beijing Olympics - If only i was as good as team GB!! September 18, 2008
M. Royce (UK)
I brought this game expecting a classic button mashing sports fest. The game as a whole has some very good aspects but i find the control system to be a little too complex. The idea of using the control sticks instead of the buttons is a nice idea but i found too often that this was slower than button mashing and became very irritating to the hands after only a short time playing. Also the character stats aspect of the game becomes very frustrating as the fatigue part of the game plays a big part in future success and you cannot skip events to speed up progress and have to participate before quitting the event to keep this fatigue down. The athlete in each event is often different to that in other events so i didn't see why fatigue would come in.
World Records in certain events such as the middle distance events are practically impossible to break as you are so relient on being in close proximity to your challengers for stamina that you cannot push on with the record because they do not attempt to catch you.
In the whole the solo playing mode does not grip you the way i'd hoped and its more relient on the mulitplaying with friends than going for gold yourself. I hope future releases in this genre will learn from the goods and bads of this game but this addition just seems to be TOO different without any feedback from players before release.

Buy this title when its cheap and only as a party game.

5 out of 5 stars

If you love the olympics this is for you! September 17, 2008
S. Mcghee
If you love the olympics which i do this is for you i play this non stop and i love the challenge of winning the medals. the graphics are great but the only thing i dislike of the game is the athletes are'nt real so like theres no micheal phelps in swimming or an ussain bolt its just random characters but the gameplay just makes me forget about it.

2 out of 5 stars

Shallow fun September 9, 2008
Lancebastion (stratazon.co.uk)
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 the last lap and still easily win. There's little strategy.

This does have online for up to 8 players, which is where it becomes more fun. This is the kind of game that comes into its own in large groups, with a couple of beers.

I wouldn't suggest buying this if you like epic, play alone games. If you're a casual gamer, you'll have fun. Wait for the bargain bins.

1 out of 5 stars

Back to 1990 September 4, 2008
R. Huisman
Really do not enjoy this dinosaur game. No intuitive interface, and the actual sports are no fun either. Game does not offer you a lot of possibilities, can not even change my name. Also, after each event you have an annoying 4 seconds wait to see where your score would be in the worldwide leadbord. If you like pressing two buttons after each other like a madman, than this would be a game for you.

3 out of 5 stars

Falls at the final hurdle! August 28, 2008
MagyarMatt (UK)
Ok first off the events are great with a nice variety of controls. And the events will leave you as sweaty as the athletes as you bash those buttons. The only poor event for me is Judo which despite many attempts I just can't get to work.

Where this game falls down however is in it's lack of choice of countries and on-line play. I play other games on-line but if I try this with 8 people and 100m run the lag is dreadful and the connection usually drops. I think it can't handle all the rapid button imputs. So your going to need a very high speed internet connection for this to work. Mine does ok with 4 people. Also some of the events which run as knockout like table tennis and archery do not run concurrently so you have to sit there for ages as everyone else plays out their games. How the developers thought that was a good idea is beyond me.

Single player mode features training with the nice feature of being able to compare against your friends personal bests. Of course you can compete in the olympics but it has the hugely annoying feature of you needing to qualify in so many events to get to the next day or you have to do the whole day all over again including events that you already qualified in, very frustrating.

This game is best played with a few friends and overall is worth getting. Be prepared for some serious finger and arm ache though!!

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