Beijing 2008: Game review, Olympics widget
So, while I’ve enjoyed the Olympics, I wasn’t the biggest fan of “Beijing 2008,” the video game based on the Olympic games. As you can see at our main newspaper site NewsOK.com, I thought the game seemed more tortuous than inspiring:
The gameplay is simply hand torture. Quick button mashing is the name of the game. Hitting buttons or moving joysticks in rapid succession is needed to compete in virtually every event. It’s as if it’s 1982, and the developer would receive a quarter every time you failed.
After the tutorials, which don’t really explain anything well at all, the selected team is thrown into the Olympic mix. However, the team members are apparently fat, lazy and stupid, as their qualifying statistics are awful. The gamer must meet several challenges each day, with a subpar team, to gain experience points to upgrade the characters to “not completely horrible.”
You’d think, at the Olympics, any nation wouldn’t just pick the slowest people who happened to be standing around, but that’s the impression you get with “Beijing 2008.” Add to that the carpal tunnel syndrome you’ll give yourself by trying to win all 36 events, and, you’re better off watching the Olympics on TV instead.
So, that said, want a quick recap of the Olympics? GMS has developed a widget sharing the highlights. Check it out below.
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