Starting up London 2012 fills you with an enormous sense of wellbeing. It’s the Olympics – it really is. Utterly wonderful as the event is though this really shows off the benefits of having the official licence for something special. Like FIFA or NHL being official makes it real. It gives the developers that much more confidence, too, as with the great power of a licence comes great responsibility. Without fail (near enough) this results in presentation of such panache and vibrancy that the whole package gets off to a fabulous start, ensuring the final impression is always one or two points higher than for something more unreal. London 2012 from Sega Studios Australia doesn’t disappoint. It makes you believe in the London Olympics, with celebrity commentators and media you’ve seen and heard over the past years and months. You’ll start to have faith in the games because of this virtual version and like a positive feedback loop it yields yet more faith in the game. You’ll find yourself an Olympics fan, whatever your state of saturation to date.
One Hit Pixel - United Front Games' latest title takes top spot, with New Super Mario Bros 2 in second and the London 2012 title in third.
Fingers crossed for Darksiders 2. I'm just 2 hours in and it's great fun and rich in content.
If you want to get a taste of the Olympics once again without watching everything once more on BBC iPlayer, you can always try out the game, but you will be missing out on a large number of sports. The game features 46 events from 13 sports, pretty stingy when compared to 304 events from 36 sports that we just witnessed over the past couple of weeks. London 2012 clearly doesn’t quite match the real thing for events to take part in, but the bigger question is, are they any good to play?
GodisaGeek: "Although the London 2012 Olympics have now drawn to a close (we shed a tear, did you?) the official video game is still going strong, holding the top spot in the UK charts for another week."
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