Better than Tony Hawks by a mega ramp, how could gamespot give it just 7.0????
Wait, in fact its great, amazing. The greatest skating game ever. I was gettin tired of the lack of realism in the Tony Hawks series, and I was losing faith in nethersoft to deliver a great skating game. What great timing for EA to bring out a new series in skating games, a revolution, maybe. This game is called Skate. This game features such pro skaters as Danny Way and Paul Rodrigues and has an innovative original control system called 'flick it'. This basically all the flip tricks and variations of grabs ect are controlled with the right analouge stick.
It works well for the most part, although when playing games such as S-K-A-T-E (skate's version of horse.) the flick- it controls can feel a little imprecise.
The game features the fictional city of San Velona, a skating paradise, which you will soon realise after venturing around a bit.
You will pick up sponsors as you complete challenges and get footage together. There are some great challenges on offer, such as pro challenges which earn you the respect of the pro skaters in the game. Another great challenge is the death races available in the game, which are fun and challenging. The weak point of all the challenges are the footage you have to gather by acheiving so many points in 30 seconds. These are ok to begin with, but they can become very demanding and are mandatory to continue with the game.
Skating around and finding new spots is incredibly fun, also saving your amazing tricks and cringe-worthy bails and sharing them with friends are a great touch.
The biggest problem with the PS3 version of the game is the frame rate, it can be reduced almost unplayably at times, but only for brief moments and it is infrequent enough to excuse this problem almost entirely.
Overall, this is the greatest skating game period. I cannot wait for the sequel on Jan 23rd, and after playing this game, you wont be able to either.