A game so revolutionary that you will be saying, good-bye Tony Hawk!

User Rating: 10 | Skate PS3
By Heromoua | Review Date:
Like me, some of your first impressions of the game was probably, "Damn, not another Tony Hawk wannabe..." Well, if those were your thoughts, then you got it all wrong. Once you get your hands on the game, and start playing it and getting used to the controls, believe me, you do not want to put your hands down. My first experience with Skate was as awesome as my first experience playing a game like Guitar Hero, because the game play scheme is so unique. In the Tony Hawk franchise, we played it by pressing x to jump, circle to grab, square to do flip tricks, and triangle to grind. This time around, all of the face button mashing is no longer there for us to smash, and instead we realistically do every move and trick with the moving and flicking of the joysticks. By doing that, there is so much more control over how you play it, and what tricks you want to do, giving the game a strong sense that you are playing it. Let's say you want you skater to do a grind. This time, its no pressing the grind button. This time, you make him do the grind, by making him jump towards the rail or edge. The control scheme is hard at first, but after a good 30 minutes of playing, you'll get used to it. One complaint I do have about the game play though, is the camera angle. Though its not a bad camera angle, and it does give you the sense of speed and truly skating, it doesn't really allow you to land and time some of your moves such as the grinds. But then again, after a good few hours, you might've gotten used to the camera.

Overall, this is a solid game, and possibly one of, if not the BEST game I've played all year. The graphics are flawless, having amazing visuals and blur effects, and possibly the best motion capturing and physics system we've all seen in a while. I mean seriously, every character movement in motion capturing is smooth and flows nicely unlike Madden where you see a pause in between a charater's movement to the next. The online is also very well done. You can play up to 3 other players and up to over 7 game modes. The online is very well set up and organized, so you can keep track of yours and other player's stats, as well as watch each other's videos that you can record. If you've haven't played a skate boarding game since the sucking of the Tony Hawk franchise in their Underground series, you might want to check this game out. Skater fans or not, anyone can easily enjoy this game, even those who would likely deny that they won't like this game. I give it a 10, it's a must play, and must buy for any owner of PS3 or 360.

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