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the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. Compete in 38 events, across 10 authentic Olympic sports - and bring home the gold.Glory is measured in split seconds - the differ...
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represent your country and bring home the gold.Appearing on the Xbox 360 for the first time, Beijing 2008 delivers an entertaining and immersive Olympic experience. The...
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2008 Olympic Games Xbox 360 and will allow gamers to experience the thrill of competing in many of the official venues ranging from the famous Beijing National Sta...
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give you the edge Train and manage your countrys elite, customising their agility, power, stamina and speed, creating the unbeatable team Challenge friends online ...
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represent your country and bring home the gold.Appearing on the Xbox 360 for the first time, Beijing 2008 delivers an entertaining and immersive Olympic experience. The...
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represent your country and bring home the gold.Appearing on PC 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 you a chance to
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Embrace the competitive spirit of the world's most prestigious sporting event and ... more
represent your country and bring home the gold.Appearing on PC 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!
Embrace the competitive spirit of the world's most prestigious sporting event and ... more
represent your country and bring home the gold.Appearing on PC 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 you a chance to
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Advantages: Good online multiplayer, excellent graphics Disadvantages: Controls, no story line
...a variety of events. Luckily, Beijing 2008 just made the cut. For the first time ever, Olympics fans have gained the chance to try their hand at running, swimming, shooting, jumping and much more from the comfort of their own homes. Sounds like a dream, and the game really did have some great features, but there were also some huge disappointments.
.Graphics.
Excellent graphics, in my opinion, are important in any good ... ...(both on and offline) on Beijing 2008 is possibly one of the best features, and certainly on a par with the graphics. If you have any reason to buy this game at all, it would surely be for the thrill of taking the game to xbox live and testing your skills against the best of the best. It's relatively simple to settle down into an online competition, apart from the long time it seems to take to find a host, but once you're in, get ready for some fun. ... more
Satisfactory sporting games are often hard to come by, especially for those of us wanting to experience a variety of events. Luckily, Beijing 2008 just made the cut. For the first time ever, Olympics fans have gained the chance to try their hand at running, swimming, shooting, jumping and much more from the comfort of their own homes. Sounds like a dream, and the game really did have some great features, but there were also some huge disappointments.
.Graphics.
Excellent graphics, in my opinion, are important in any good game, and Sega certainly didn't let us down here. Whether you're mid-race in a running event or getting ready to dive into the pool, you can always depend on the stunning looks of the surroundings. Simply everything is life-like, and the athletes become real as they cross the finish line first, last or somewhere in between, and show their emotions just as a real human would. The animations of the different sports are brilliant to watch, even if you're not winning, as there is so much variety with 38 different events to try your hand at. Unfortunately, the developers didn't try so hard with the rest of the game.
.Gameplay.
There are three main modes to this game - Training, Competitions and The Olympics. Luckily, you're not thrown in right at the deep end and you will always have the chance to develop and perfect your skills in any of the 38 events available. The Training mode provides you with instructions on how to play the event you have chosen, and also gives you the chance to test those controls out. And of course, once you are ready to get out there and start competing, you still may not want to go for an Olympic medal just yet. This is where the Competition mode comes in handy. You can test your skills with other bot athletes without the pressure of losing everything if you make one wrong move. Finally, when you think you're ready to take down the pros, you can put your skills to the ultimate test and compete against the champions. You will have to prove your worth in the trials first, and unfortunately failure in one of these events can get you kicked from the competition. But it'll all be worth it if you manage to get the gold medal and 'beat the game.' However, once you have completed the Olympics, there really isn't much else to do. The game has no story line so once you've won a gold medal, you can't really do much except win another one. Competitions seem petty after you've competed at Olympic level, so you're destined to repeat the same monotonous, exhausting events over and over again. Now you may think that with all that training and preparation, you're destined for an Olympic gold medal. Unfortunately, you would be wrong. Most people do not have the superhuman thumb strength needed to get you to the top in the Running events, or the perfect timing required in order to hit the target in Shooting. Swimming is also difficult, as when you hit the water it becomes a little difficult to see which athlete is yours, and therefore you don't know if you're in the lead until the race is over. And the hurdles seem particularly demanding; expecting the participant to be able to do some serious button mashing while hitting right trigger at the exact right time in order to save your athlete from an exaggerated tumble. Sega certainly didn't want average gamers to succeed without some help, and it's hardly surprising that even the pros have trouble beating the bots. But at least you know that all this practice will help you kick some butt online.
.Multiplayer.
If you're used to failing miserably in the impossible single player, then online multiplayer will make a nice break from the losing and thumb exhaustion. The multiplayer feature (both on and offline) on Beijing 2008 is possibly one of the best features, and certainly on a par with the graphics. If you have any reason to buy this game at all, it would surely be for the thrill of taking the game to xbox live and testing your skills against the best of the best. It's relatively simple to settle down into an online competition, apart from the long time it seems to take to find a host, but once you're in, get ready for some fun. You can relax in a friendly game with your buddies, or play to win in a serious online battle for first place.
So in my opinion, it's quite obvious that this game needs a lot of work, and it's a shame that Sega didn't put more effort into the controls. What could have been a good game has been ruined by such a simple thing that has been made so complicated. However, it's not all bad, as if you did happen to buy the game before you knew what it was like, you can always give up with your career and just head onto xbox live for some easier competition.
Advantages: Great multiplayer, Some nice touches Disadvantages: Tires quickly, Some aspects seem rushed, Extremely frustrating
Well, at least it's slightly better than the Champions League editions of FIFA. Not wanting to lose a penny from what's clearly a lucrative licence, this is part two of Sega's Olympics double whammy, this time featuring not the inexplicable and hugely irritating race betwixt hedgehog and plumber but - shock horror- real competitors. Well, I say real competitors, but as per every athletics title except Athlete Kings, they're just carbon copy droids ... ...title like this, it's all about the button-mashing game-play, right? wrong.
This time, you see, you can waggle. Yes, gone is the necessity to wear out the consoles uber-sensitive buttons, replaced by a whole new chance to wear out the analogue sticks instead. There's the added bonus of creating interesting little bruises on the inside of both middle fingers as you shuffle them from side to side, too. I'll take my foot off the facetious pedal for ...
Rorytheking 11.09.2008
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Advantages: GRAPHICS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Disadvantages: Controls can be very difficult and sounds are quite repetitive
...official video game of the Beijing 2008 olympic Games. Compete in 38 events, across 10 authentic Olympic sport - and bring home the gold. Glory is measured in split seconds - the difference between being an athlete and a hero: - Compete for honour in single player, or take on up to 3 challengers in multiplayer. - Train and manager your country's elite, customising the agility, power, stamina and speed, creating the unbeatable team. -Go for glory ... ...I always like to write what is on the rear of the box because its something you never really see when buying online. ===Ok so what events are there=== Track Events - 100m,200m,400m,800m,1500m, 100m hurdles, 110m hurdles. Field Events - hammer throw, shot put, discus throw, javelin throw, long jump, triple jump, high jump, pole vault. Swimming Events - 50m freestyle, 100m backstroke, 100m butterfly, 100m breaststroke, 3m springboard, 10m platform ...
lewis_uk12000 19.05.2009
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Advantages: Loads of Games, Great Graphics, Good Sound Disadvantages: Cheats on Xbox Live, Cuts your hand in running!
...a review on the game Beijing Olympics 2008 for the Xbox 360
Lets get on with it!
Well this game is amazing there is loads of different games (38 over 10 sports) which makes it last for ever.
I will talk a bit about a few of the games now
100 Metres in this game you have to use the left right thumb stick or rapidly press A and B like most of the running games there is one problem when using the thumb stick it hurts!!! I have about 5 cuts on my ... ...it when they made it them buttons! There is also 200m 400m
110 Metre Hurdles in this its just the same as the 100 Metres except there is hurdles and to jump the hurdles you have to press the LT button or left trigger.
800 Metres and 1500 Metres in this you do the same in the 100 Metres except you don't have to move the thumb stick as fast and you cant keep sprinting or your runner will get tired and stop running.
High Jump and Triple Jump in these ...
coolguymcd 26.07.2008 (28.07.2008)
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Advantages: Great all round game Disadvantages: online play is poor
...Now the game…
Beijing 2008 on the Xbox 360 includes 35 events from the Beijing Olympic Games, these are:
Archery
100m Backstroke
Balance Beam
100m Breaststroke
100m Butterfly
Team Cycling
10m Air Pistol
Discus
50m Freestyle
Floor Exercises Hammer
Weightlifting
Javelin
High Jump
Kayak
Hurdles
... ...Diving
Pole Vault
25m Rapid Fire Pistol
Rings
Skeet
200m
Shot Put
3m Springboard Dive
100m Table Tennis
Triple Jump
Uneven Bars
Judo
Vault
Also available for play is a heptathlon and a decathlon (where achievements are available) - as well as Olympics mode.
The game offers a whopping 50 achievements for a total of 1000Gs, ...
migitaldave 09.07.2008
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Advantages: Great Graphics, Intuitive Gameplay Disadvantages: Some Events Are Bad, Aching Hands
The game beijing 2008 is not exactly what i expected...
The graphics are superb and the way the game is designed is fantastic however, there are a few aspects which do let the game down terribly...
The events are plentiful but, unfortunatly, repetitive...
Track
100m
200m
400m
800m
1500m
100m hurdles
110m hurdles
Field
Hammer
Discus
Javelin
Shotput
Long Jump
High Jump
Triple Jump
Pole Vault
Aquatics
50m Freestyle
100m Breaststroke
... ...(used and new)
Beijing 2008...6/10
*Update*
I frequently mentioned the trouble I with the 'waggle' technique used in many of the events in Beijing. Well, after talking to some of my friends, one told me that pulling your jumper over your thumb and then sliding it as fast as possible across the 'A' and 'B' buttons will prove a much, much easier method. Obviously, as the jumper reduces the friction and allows you to easily maintain the rhythm and ...
PunksNotDead128 22.07.2008 (06.09.2008)
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