London 2012 - Playstation 3

London 2012: The Official Video Game is the official of the in . It was published by and developed by , making this the first Olympics title to be developed in-house by Sega. The and versions were developed and published by NEOWIZ.

It is also the second official video game based on the 2012 Olympics, the other being .

The game features 37 countries, and 31 events. New disciplines included 10m Synchronised Platform Diving, Trampoline, Beach Volleyball and Keirin.

The game features an online mode for players wishing to compete with other challengers worldwide. The "national pride" is a ranking system in the online mode, where the players have the possibility to collect medals for their favourite country.

It is compatible with and Xbox for certain events in the party mode.

London 2012 is the first Olympics video game to include cooperative events in the local multiplayer mode. Chris Schilling of said of the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions that "Sega's celebration of the year's biggest sporting event is better than you might expect." In his opinion, the events of both versions would not hold up too well in the long term, but that is not really what an Olympics game is about. He praised the online and offline multiplayer mode. The German PC game magazine criticized the gameplay, because it is almost impossible to play it with the mouse and the keyboard, so the player is forced to get a gamepad to play London 2012. They also mentioned that the gameplay of the events would not be different from each other and that the of the computer opponents is not balanced