Wednesday 22 August 2007

First Impressions of Skate Demo

Well, it's, um, different. It's nothing like tony hawks and it feels like learning to walk again. You instinctively want to press A to jump, then Y to grind, only it's not like that any more.

The flickit controls are very intuitive and do pretty much what you tell it to do. I like the grinding but jeebus christ, it's hard. No more popping onto the grind if you're in it's vicinity, you have to get this bang on to land on the grind. But it does feel a lot more satisfactory when you land it.

I think the key is to get used to the controls. Once you are, i think it's gonna feel very natural.

Remember back to when you played the first tony hawks game, it was good but incredibly hard. But the first time you actually landed a tricky move felt damn good. It's exactly the same with Skate.

Whether you were good at tony hawks or not, it doesn't matter any more, everything starts again with Skate

I would certainly recommend getting the demo, there's enough there to see the game properly and it gets pretty addictive pretty quickly.

The movie after the demo is great, i love the trick where the character jumps over the rail but the board goes under it.

1 comment:

Jimbeeer said...

Certainly do. It's a little trick your mum taught me.