Beijing Olympics 2008
Friday, September 3rd, 2010 at
8:59 am
Tagged with: 2008 • Beijing • Olympics
Filed under: olympics
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Review by Brian for Beijing Olympics 2008
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Since the Olympics are over, I got a great deal on this game and decided to give it a try. I was hoping the gameplay would be more modern than the button mashing games but it actually is worse.
There are 38 games total, most are either fusturating, tiring or both.
All games that involve running such as all track events and many field events require you to either button mash the X and Circle buttons or move the right and left analog sticks back an forth. Cycling requires you to rotate either the left or analog stick for around 4 minutes. After 2 days and maybe 90 minutes total of playing this game, I noticed the analog sticks on my controller were a lot more loose compared the way they were before I opened the game. I am sure if I keep playing these events, the controller will be worn down very quickly.
All events that require a starting timer like running and swimming have a meter. This meter either almost always gives you a false start or you end up starting the race too late and can’t catch up.
Other events such as Floor Exercises use the timing of the buttons but don’t give you enough notice of what button needs to be pressed.
Some events like Archery are fun except that you need an almost perfect score just to advance past the first round.
Overall, the game can be fun at times but most of the time you are going to be fusturated and in the process ruining your controller or controllers if you play multiplayer mode.
Review by gllcanon for Beijing Olympics 2008
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If you like repetitive key punching, then have a couple pina coladas and you might find this entertaining. Maybe I’m too hard on it, this is best suited for a family get-together, with young kids, for setting the Olympic mood. But it really amounts little more than repetitive key punching, to the extent you wonder if you’re going to brake your gamepads. Its not all that different from the Apple IIe’s key-banging equivolent circa 1983, but the graphics have thankfully improved somewhat in the last 25 yrs — too bad gameplay hasn’t. I guess it’s just difficult to make a good Olympics game, b/c no one ever pulls it off.
Review by kindasorta for Beijing Olympics 2008
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Having grown up in the Atari age with stuff like ‘Decathlon’ and then later with ‘Track and Field’ on the NES, I think I can appreciate a button mashing sports game like this game more than alot of people can. It’s not rocket science gameplay here…it all comes down to how fast you can tap the buttons, twirl the control sticks, aim, or press the right button combinations. So for today’s sports game fan…it may be too ‘simple.’
Quite honestly, I think sports games have gotten too complex anyways. Theres too much focus on strategy and pressing 6 button combos to perform one particular move. A game like this is actually a refreshing step into retro-style gaming. For the bargain price it is now, it’s a cool collection of about 50 Olympic mini-games that you can mess around with for an hour and then leave it. If you’re looking for something with more depth, you’re better off looking elsewhere. But if you want simple, NES-era button mashing fun (that will make your arm sore), give this one a look. It’s not nearly as bad as its made out to be. It’s just a matter of preference.
Altho I WILL admit that the kayak controls stink…
Review by Luis A. Vega Jr. for Beijing Olympics 2008
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I am not happy overall with the game at all. I bought it in 2008 even before I had a PS3 and today I finally was able to play it (2 yrs later) and don’t know if it was worth the wait. The only good sport I enjoy playing is Gymnastics. The events are great and realistic in form. The falls and wobbles really are realistic and being a huge gymnastics fan myself I give it 5 stars BUT that is the only good thing.
The track and field is a HUGE disappointment! I loved the 100m in 2004 and 2000 games for playstation but surprisingly the track for this game is HORRIBLE. In the beginning you have to hold on the L2 or L1 button but it cant hit the red or you’ll false start but its hard so you always end up either false staring or starting much later than the other competitors, on top of that usually like in the 2004 video game even if you start late you can still catch up well not in this game. I literally can not do better than last place because it is virtually impossible to stay with the group no matter how hard I mash the buttons, its ridiculous and very frustrating!
Other games like table tennis, judo and kayak are also frustrating, way too complicated to understand what buttons to press and when, same for the diving, it just fails completely. Such a shame!
Review by Moe for Beijing Olympics 2008
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frankly its a nice game, mostly, except some games inside which is really silly, i mean the way u have to play it to get the score, like Hammer..
generally . .i had fun with this game