VGBlogger writes: "Microsoft’s Kinect peripheral, much like the late Jim McKay, has spanned the globe, giving us the constant variety of (motion-controlled) sports. We’ve thrilled to hands-free video game approximations of all the majors and also gone extreme, rocking everything from jungle parkour to hang-gliding. One of the few places we haven’t been yet is into the chlorinated depths of the swimming pool. Enter everyone’s favorite U.S. Olympic bong-hitter swimmer to show us how it’s done.
Or not done, as the case may be. Michael Phelps: Push the Limit purports to give us the sense of what it’s like to swim laps in a speedo and a six-pack with the most elite swimmers in the world. The actual result is closer to rhythm-based repetition, with an appeal that water-logs after a couple hundred meters."
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As US swimmer Michael Phelps prepares to add to his record 14 gold medals at the London 2012 Summer Games, the athlete isn’t likely to take much of a break from one of his favorite pastimes – gaming. Phelps, who can become the most-awarded Olympian in history by the end of this Olympics, loves to play all kinds of video games. But one of his favorites is Zynga’s Words With Friends. He’ll have as many as 30 games going on at once. Phelps talks all about his love of games in the videos below.
he isn't that good anyway, some science show showed that you don't need different types of muscle groups to swim different strokes as long as you are the shape of a swimmer and have the endurance and strength and professional can do any stroke.
Decathletes are the true athletes only one medal and they do 10 different events which test endurance, strength and speed.
Back to the main topic, this dope smoking swimmer can be hooked on what ever he wants doesn't affect me or the gaming industry.
Yeah...he isn't that good...he only has more gold medals than any other Olympic Athlete...ever....
If it were as easy as you think it is, every slim person in the world would be a world class swimmer...no...no no no, it takes years of practice and hard work to do even half of the things these guys do...
And who cares if he smoked weed, what harm did it do? Would he have won maybe 10 extra gold medals if he didn't? Not likely....
And yes Decatheletes are impressive....but let's get real here, Michael Phelps swims like a damn fish, he currently holds the water speed record in at least 7 events, that's pretty god damn impressive...
XMNR: Conan O'Brien released his first video game review on Wednesday night and it was for Michael Phelps: Push the Limit which uses Kinect on Xbox 360. Conan introduced a brand new review scoring system that completely makes sense and discovers that Push the Limit is probably sexist.
The video doesn't work in my country. Could you find a different one? I'm not reporting it but it would be great to have an alternate source.
It's Canada. American networks do not allow viewership from foreign countries, eh?
I don't think Conan could have looked less interested in doing this if he tried.
Possibly. It's just weird seeing him so mellow and unenthusiastic compared to how peppy he is when on air.
I'm thinking there's some Microsoft advertising going on here. It seems so forced and not natural. Otherwise, I don't get why they pushed the Lumia on us at the beginning (yeah, it says AT&T, but then why make a video game bit that he's just not interested in doing?).
File under comedically bad advertising is good advertising?
He knows nothing about video games...and yet he looks like less of a tool playing them than Jimmy Fallon?
Interesting...
