Skate. - 9/10
SKATE, the most orginal name for any type of skateboarding game..sounds abit cheesy, well don't be fooled by its name this game is one of the best next generation games.
Lets start with Career, The career in this game is great!. The introduction video is hilarious!
After the video has finished you get to create your very own, SKATER!. Customize his face,hair,clothes,deck(means a skateboard), ect. Until he is perfect for u, then u will head down to the "Community Centre" A.K.A "Skate Park". Start there by learning tricks with the most awsome controls ever "Flick-It". At first it might be hard to use, but as u go on through career it will get easier everytime! As you do more videos and competions people begin to notice you more and companys start to sponser you. You can be sponsered in Decks,Trucks,Wheels and Shoes. There a alot of little tasks aswell in this game, verse a Pro in a game of S.K.A.T.E or in a game of Spot Battle. Get coverage for the magazines "Thrasher" and "Skateboard Mag". Even skate against pro's at the "X-Games"
Lets get more in-depth with these controls. The right analog stick is used for
the "Flick-It" system. While the Left analog stick is used for turning ur skater or while oillie,kickfliping ect u can 180,360,540,720 and 900.
Here is a diagram of the tricks u can do using the "Flick-It" controls!
You can combine a set of tricks to create a line. Line is when you combine tricks and you get either x1.5,x2,x3. Which solely depends on the type of trick u do and how long u combo for.
The Graphics in Skate. isn't the best and u really can't compare it to Call of Duty 4 but its graphics are still pretty good, you can see that the wheels will spin and that the clothes have the right shadows and creases.
The Gameplay of Skate. is extremely fun, u can skate all around San Vanelona, with endless spots to skate even in 20 hours or more of playing the game i still found places i never saw before, but don't think it will be like "Tony Hawks" with all these random ramps and rails everywhere this is a more realistic game and is alot more fun (to me).
Multiplayer is great, challange your friends to a game of S.K.A.T.E, Spot Battle, Own the Spot.
S.K.A.T.E is when a player does a trick and the other player has to copy that or if they don't they the letter "S", and it keeps going like that unless the first player bails then the second player gets to create the trick. The game ends when one player has created the word "S.K.A.T.E".
Spot Battle is a competion for the player to get the highest score on a selected rail,stair set, ramp. By Combining tricks.
Own the Spot is when players have to do there best trick to get the highest score on a spot. They are only allowed one turn and if they bail thats there turn gone, they also get a time limit of 10 seconds to do the trick.
Now for Online. Online isn't as good as i thought it would be as most of the time when your with other players it is in slow motion due to the connection or where people are located and is very laggy. Apart from that online isn't that bad, challange people all over the world to games and be the best skater online!
In Skate. you can save,upload and edit your own skate videos for others to see editing is really easy and fun, plus it needs not skills or effort!
The sound and music in this game are very well done, Ea always use dolby DTS which gives it that surround sound. Also the different sounds when u skate of different grounds are very good and the sound of the board flipping is excellent they even added that windy sound when u go down a hill very fast!....Very nice work EA!
Gameplay 8/10 (can get very difficult)
Graphics 9/10
Sound 10/10
Creativity 10/10
Controls 9/10
So for Skate. I give it a....................... 9/10!
Its a solid game and for EA's first time into that type of game its really well done to them!
If u haven't got it yet..get it!!!!!!!!!!!
Submitted by jrow
07/01/2008
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