Skate Review

In the world of skateboarding games there is one that really sticks out as unique. That game would be Skate. Skate revolutionized skateboarding games. No longer was skating unnatural like in the tony hawk games. In the Tony Hawk Pro Skater series, regardless of these games being fun there was a very unnatural feel to it. You would press all sorts of button combination's to do tricks. However in the Skate series the right thumb stick controls the board and your feet, for example, moving it down and then up makes you do an Ollie. Tricks are done by adding to this: moving the thumb stick down and then out to the left or the right would make you do a kick flip or a heel flip depending on which way you moved it. Many feel this game is one of the more realistic skating games. When you go to grind along a rail instead of somehow being gravitationally pulled into the rail like in the TH games, you must now land on the rail or else you are going to fall off.

The whole story line in skate is to try to get your name out there and become famous. You do this by beating scores on spots, skating for sponsored and famous skaters, make skating videos of you grinding rails jumping gaps, and take pictures of you hitting sweet spots. Once you start getting your name out there you start doing more and more and you end up doing photo shoots for magazines.
When you design your character you’re able to choose all sorts of things ranging from his hairstyle, his clothes, and his board. The skateboard is fully customizable with a variety of parts from different companies you can mix and match. Both the clothing brands and skateboard parts are real world items so chances are you’re going to be able to find something you may own or want to own in game. I was pleased to find a zero that I owned was in the game, so of course I was set with the board I was going to use the entire game.

Like most games this game has its flaws. You’ll actually notice the game’s biggest flaw right away; you can’t get off your board. This makes it pretty hard for getting to certain spots you may want to start off from, and of course this makes stairs impossible. Luckily the game makes up for it by having what’s called a session marker, it’s kind of like a save state. Basically you mark a spot and once you go hit LB and up you’ll return to that spot. This makes re-doing the same spot over and over until you are satisfied with your accomplishment so much easier.

I would give this game a good 7/10

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