Skate: Better than Tony Hawk?

I was wondering what you all think on EA's forray into the skateboarding Genre, will it compete well with Tony hawk's games or crash and burn?

Im hoping it competes well, I think it will make the Tony Hawk games better too, now that theyll have competion, maybe they will actually get new gameplay elements!!!

Caven.

It all comes down to gameplay.  The Tony Hawk series is known for being very smooth and easy to just pick up and go.

I guess we'll see how Skate does comparitively. 

yeah, reading all the stuff about it makes it seem almost like fight night, where you mainly use the analog to do stuff.

Main, thing I saw was that an Ollie wasnt just pressing the X button, you actully have to flip one analog up, and then the oter down.

I hope it does well, as I always find in TH games it's far to easy to become a "noob" skater to pro, skating for tony hawk's team:P

Caven.

Better?  I don't know.  I don't really like to think in those blanket, black and white terms.

I personally feel that, as far as Skate sounds so far, it sounds more like a skateboarding version of, say, a game like Gran Turismo, whereas Tony Hawk falls more into a game more akin to San Fransisco Rush.  Both certainly have their selling points and levels of quality, and each will appeal to differing or similar crowds, depending on the type of gamer.

I've been a longstanding fan of the Tony Hawk franchise - although I have fallen a bit out of touch with it - and I'm keenly interested in trying a new approach to the way the genre can be done.  I'll certainly at least be renting the title, although depending on reviews, I'll probably just end up buying it.