[quote=“JaysGreenLX”"]
I hate it.
It looks great and they have tried to change the way you control the player but it is just annoying. To do an ollie in Tony Hawk, you press or hold a button. In Skate, you have to push the right stick down and then flick it up. This makes doing something in a half pipe super difficult to time and it makes building up speed pretty hard as well. In order to build speed you need to hit the X button rapidly. That just stinks though because you can never get going fast enough it seems. Grabs are the shoulder buttons which is fine. Griding is a chore. You have to perfectly line up straight with a rail and then jump just high enough that you don’t totally clear it. I like that in Tony Hawk you simply hit a button when you are jumping near a rail and the player will grind it.
Props to EA for trying something different, but it just blows. Sure it’s much closer to the actual difficulty of real skating, but it didn’t seem to hurt sales of Tony Hawks games. Maybe I will try it again to see if I can get used to the control scheme but I really don’t want to.
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:word: i downloaded the demo after coldaccord or dex or something was popping boners over it. in the end though… it blew.