True skating
posted by Rurik550 (BEAVERTON, OR) Sep 26, 2007
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If you have skated, do skate, or always wanted to this game is for you. If you want to do a double backflip indy 1080 over a helicopter stick with Tony Hawk.
Skate has a more realistic feel and makes you really feel good when you pull off a sweet line. The controls take some getting used to at first, especially if you played allot of the TH series, But they are intuitive to what you are doing and soon become second nature. The graphics are very good, although the framerate skips a bit. The character animations on your character are amazing, they are very fluid and natural. The animations on the other skaters are a bit choppy at times and seem stiff, but that might be the AI. This is by far one of the best games I have ever played, and I don't want to put it down.
With that said, lets get to my complaints. I really would like to be able to step off the board. Its annoying that to gap the same staircase I have to ride all the way around and back up to the top. The camera guy needs to shut up. I don't need to hear how 'buttery' that line was every time I do a kickflip. The camera angle makes for good looks but not play. I'll be skating towards a rail and the camera will shift so my legs are blocking my view, and I just have to pray i timed the ollie right.
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