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Super Fun Game, Better than Tony Hawk

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 25, 2007
Author: Amazon User

First off let me say this game exceeds any Tony Hawk offering so far on the next-gen systems. skate is an amazingly complete experience. Those who enjoy the free nature of actual skating will get the most enjoyment from this game. Though the story is adequate you'll get the most from this game if you spend a good chunk of time simple exploring the city. The flickit controls, though confusing at first (for those of us used to pressing (x) to ollie), are extremely intuitive after getting used to them. Though there are a few technical issues that can become frustrating (curse you load times!), the end product is a blast.

Best of the genre

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game has completely revolutionized the way skateboarding games will be made from now. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater has been dominating the skateboarding video game scene since nearly 10 years ago. This is the first game to not only compete with the franchise, but to destroy it until it is willing to change and adapt to the future. Support multi-player and a great campaign mode. Highly recommended.

Best Skateboarding Game!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 20, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is revolutionary! THe control scheme is amazingly better than Tony Hawk and is much better in general. Because of this game, I will never buy another tony hawk game again. I highly recommend this game.

Best Skateboard game yet!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game blows all the tony hawks out of the water!!! The only thing that I didn't like is the background is a little choppy sometimes and the game could of been longer. highly recomend this game if you like skating!

Another Best Ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

DO NOT PLAY TONY HAWK AFTER THIS...you will be disappointed, this is the most fun I have had playing a skate game, some of the tricks are tough, but they are in real life too. LOTS to do, huge open map. Lots of pros, big time sponsors, buy it right now.

virtual skating

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 15, 2008
Author: Amazon User

If youd like a game that mimics real life skating, this is your game, but if you just want to acid drop off skyscrapers and grind forever go buy a tony hawk game.

A game all it's own

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 25, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is such a breath of fresh air from Tony Hawk. I've been playing the series since Pro Skater 4 but EA's skate really does an awesome job of breaking free from the button mashing of Tony Hawk and makes it a whole new experience. It's much more laid back and down to earth than any skateboarding game before it. I highly recommend you rent or purchase skate and be on the lookout for the sequel coming soon.

Thumbs Up:
- use of real life brands and magazines make the game more realistic
- the new flick-it controls are unbelievably fun to play around with
- graphics and sound are nicely done and the overall presentation matches the skateboarding culture
- the instant replay is a blast to use, you will crash and crash and love ever single minute of it

Thumbs Down:
- for those like me who are use to pulling off 50 tricks in a single line in Tony Hawk might have an early learning curve as the new controls and camera angle might get you frustrated in the beginning
- Some of the music is a little off and weird, luckily you can choose to turn off any songs you don't wish to hear
- Some of the loading times are randomly long especially going to watch a saved replay
- you cannot delete any photos, videos, or profiles from within the game, you must navigate to the saved game directory in the cross media bar

Excellent

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: October 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have Tony Hawk's Wastelands for PS 2. I've tried the demo for the new Tony Hawk game for the PS 3 and was not impressed. EA Skate is very different and very enjoyable. Cruising around the various parts of town has an almost Grand Theft Auto feel. The graphics are excellent and the action looks and feels very realistic.

Great game. I put it at #2 on my shelf of PS 3 games next to Oblivion.

Skate Rocks

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 01, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is really fun to play and has very innovative controls. Your thumbs will get a workout. Instead of pushing buttons to perform tricks, simply use the two directional controllers to direct the board and the skater's body. The combinations are almost limitless...

The best part is that once you get the hang of it, it really feels like skating. There are backyard pools, skate parks, city streets, art museums and crazy hidden spots that keep things interesting.

Vert or street - link your tricks together to get a high line score. Bigger tricks score higher points. In career mode the idea is to successfully complete challenges to get more coverage in the skate mags and pick up sponsors. As your skater builds his rep, you'll get paid and can start to upgrade your board, trucks and other accessories.

If you like Tony Hawk, get this game. It's a big step forward... now where's the surfing game!!!

Skate, the game.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: January 08, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I haven't played this game myself but, my son loves it so far. He's had it for 2 weeks now, and has had friends come over to play with it. No complaints.

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