Skate

Fair but it could be better

User Rating: 7.5 | Skate PS3

By JONSTON007 | Review Date: May 22, 2008

Skate started with my full attention, but ended with less than half of it. Its game play was extremely revolutionary. Unfortunately, I got frustrated when I had to keep redoing events over and over. In all fairness, I liked the X-games a lot. All of the obvious advertisement for brands and sponsors got annoying very quick.
The hand motions required to do the tricks also made me angry; its not something you pickup. After you put the game aside for a while, you can't start playing immediately and that pissed me off. Online play in Skate was arranged like a race car game, you have to do an event. If you want to play with your friends it is not that obvious, you have to pull open windows then track down your friend, it's all horrible. A sequel of this game would be a bad idea. And to the the skaters who played this game, you are SOL if you want to be like the characters.

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