A must buy for all Athens 2004 fans !!!!!

User Rating: 8.5 | Beijing 2008 - The Official Video Game of the Olympic Games PS3
By S1RF1DDLER | Review Date:
Sega has a real smasher in stall for all fans of the olympics. If you have liked Athens 2004 , this is a must buy ! There is many more events than in Athens, the controls have been revamped and make it more accessible to people who had problems in Athens with the button mashing during sprint and jump events. During swimming, which was an absolute corker before, I managed to get off the blocks up to an olympic record instantly. Have not tested single player or online modus, but since thursday night I have hardly slept and me and my mate are record hunting eversince. Massive fun if you have friends around in your living room.
A lot of events have been added, a few, like kajak or ping pong, could have been left out. Controls have been slightly changed for certain events, instead of mashing two buttons to increase power, you can now use the left and right analogue sticks. It can be exhausting, but as long as you end up with more gold medals than blisters on your hand, all is good.
Graphics look sweet, sound is mediocre, but honestly I did not expect a good soundtrack for an olympics game anyways, the only negative bits i have so far are that you have little options to modify your teams. Records are locked to the psn id of the ps3 you're playing on. Playing on my ps3, ever other user has my psn id with a number added on...TheFiddler 2, TheFiddler 3 and so on. If they rack up a record , it will be saved under this name online....

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