In association with

Beijing 2008 (Xbox 360)
from Sega

Editorial Review:

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:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• Beijing Olympics - If only i was as good as team GB!!
  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... more info

• If you love the olympics this is for you!
  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.

• 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 the last lap and still... more info

• Back to 1990
  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.

Similar Products:

More from Amazon