BEIJING OLYMPICS 2008 (PLAYSTATION 3 PS3)

The official game of the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, Beijing 2008, features 32 national teams in 38 men's and women's events in a variety of disciplines, contested in faithful representations of the stadiums that hosted the actual Games in the summer of 2008, such as like the bird's nest or the water cube.

As usual with games of this genre (some events play out in a particularly similar way to Athens 2004), button mashing and timing are the core of the gameplay, with a few exceptions and some new ideas. In the now classic events such as sprint, run, and swim, instead of mashing the power buttons as soon as the starting gun sounds, the player must control a bar with the trigger buttons, where the player skips blocks when completely filled and must be careful not to fill the bar too soon (resulting in a false start) or too late (wasting valuable time). Other events also have their share of gameplay innovations in the genre, such as the Javelin, where the analog stick is used to set the throw and fine-tune the angle with precision. In the most staggered events, Dive and Rings require the player to follow the on-screen cue with the analog pads, while others, such as Floor Exercise and Beam, require the player to follow button queues - there are three levels of difficulty. , mainly changing timing release - in higher levels the player will find it much harder to hit "perfect" moves and some of them will require much faster combinations.