The auspicious date of 8.8.08 is upon us and with it the dawn of the Beijing Olympics.
What better way to get in the mood then joining in the games yourself with a bit of simulated sport?
With 35 different events to choose from in a variety of button mashing and thumbstick twiddling styles, Beijing 2008 (which I’m playing here on X360) has a reasonable amount to offer and makes for a surprisingly fun party game.
Check it out!
pah, all this timing and swirling malarkey is not a patch on the joystick destroying waggling madness of Daley Thompsons Decathlon!
This sort of minimal gameplay fare seems a bit more suited to the likes of XBLA though - it just doesn’t stand too well as a full price product. Unless that is, they’ve implemented some sort of physics engine so you mess things up with hilarious consequences, which I doubt they have in a licensed game. Are there any fog effects in it?
haha do they give to the option to take steroids xD?
Though i think i’ll give this a miss, im sure someone will make a free flash version
Hello Katharine whats up? I was wondering if you heard about the ghost busters game being pushed back to june of 09? that sucks i was looking foward to playing that soon. owhell ,i hope that everything is ok and you are not to busy to reply thanks kat later tom s williams
Yeah it does suck about the Ghostbusters game, especially as its to do with publisher wrangles rather than any development issues. From what I’ve seen on websites like Kotaku who have had hands on time with the game, it’s going to be sooooo awesome. One plus side of the game being pushed back though is that it will now tie in with the Ghostbusters 25th anniversary, which will undoubtedly give it more hype, and maybe (and this is purely my own speculation) there might be some cool collectors editions with lots of funky extras.
I should be pretty good at the cycling because Super Stardust HD has transformed one of my thumbs into a beast of incredible twirling prowess