This old fashion and painful game play technique of pumping two buttons rapidly until your fingers hurt wore out decades ago. The majority of the Beijing events in this game focus on this horrible button pressing that soon leaves you bored with fingers burning still burning. The other downfall of this game is how difficult they have made the early rounds. It’s almost like training for the real thing.
This game does have a wide range of 36 events but most of them have some serious faults. One of the worst issues is levelling up your team of athletes in the qualifying rounds. You start of with a group of unfit, slow and weak people and have to win events so that you can train them up. You do this by adding points into things such as stamina, speed and power. If you fail to achieve the goal of the day you are said to have failed and have to start the entire day over again. Also due to your embarrassingly unfit athletes you will often find your opponents way out ahead.
Cycling claims the title of worst event ever. This race involves rotating both analog controls for over four minutes non-stop. Serious if you definition of ‘fun’ you really need to get out more.
Do you know what “yuko” and ‘ippon’ mean? Well in the Judo tutorial you are not told the rules and have to figure out what terms like this mean by your self.
Beijing 2008 does have one good feature and that’s that the graphics are pretty good. The athletes are well animated and detailed. The post event replays all show of with some eye candy but even these after a while these repetitive animations just added to how annoying this game is.
Playing with friends can help to add some fun to this game but it’s more about laughing at each other. It’s one of those things that just so bad it’s funny.
All in all, Beijing 2008 is pretty poor. There are so many better games on the market at the moment. Why waste your money on something this horrendous?