Tony Hawk's Proving Ground.
And you know what? It's without a doubt the best Tony Hawk game since THPS 3. Underground and Wasteland kinda lost their way quite a bit but this one is just superb. The best part is you can do a nail the trick at any point, even during a normal ollie. The maps are good fun and have some shit long grinds. You lvl up a little like an rpg where you just get better at something the more you do it, which is the way it should be.
I hate to use the tired old cliché of 'If you like x, you'll love y' but if you used to enjoy the old Tony Hawk games before they got into all that cycling and parkour bollocks. Everything they've introduced into Proving Ground actually makes the game better rather than worse, it feels like they're refining it rather than adding new stuff for the sake of it.
And if you've never done them before, Nail the Trick/Grab/Manual are really, really well done and totally fantastic when you pull off a particularly difficult one.
If you're looking for something good to play after the usual Christmas release-date hiatus then i would highly recommend Tony Hawk's Proving Ground. Doubly so if you used to like it but went off it in the later years then this is definitely the game to pull you back.
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Friday, 11 January 2008
Wednesday, 12 September 2007
Top Ten Video Game System Disasters
http://www.gunslot.com/blog/top-ten-10-video-game-system-disasters
To save you some time here they are below:
10. PSX (DVR)
9. Amstrad GX4000 and Amstrad CPC+ range
8. 3DO Interactive Multiplayer
7. Amiga CD32
6. Gizmondo
5. Digiblast
4. Apple Pippin
3. Atari Jaguar console
2. Virtual Boy
1. Nokia N-Gage
I've never heard of half of these, never seen a Digiblast or Apple Pippin but the one that interests me more than anything else was the N-Gage. You see, i'm quite ashamed to say that i had an N-Gage. The old one as well, the one you had to turn on its side to speak on the phone so it looked like you held a taco on the side of your face. Actually, come to think of it, i've still got it in a drawer at home!
But in its defense, some of the games were actually good. Tony Hawks 2 was very enjoyable and good fun to play on the bog at work. It was just a pain in the arse to carry around in your pocket. And swapping the games was annoying but you just downloaded them and stuck them on an sd card, bingo, no more swapping.
I also wanted a Jaguar when it came out, but only because Demolition Man looked cool and they'd recorded extra footage for the game. Never did get to play it, wonder if there's an emulator around...
To save you some time here they are below:
10. PSX (DVR)
9. Amstrad GX4000 and Amstrad CPC+ range
8. 3DO Interactive Multiplayer
7. Amiga CD32
6. Gizmondo
5. Digiblast
4. Apple Pippin
3. Atari Jaguar console
2. Virtual Boy
1. Nokia N-Gage
I've never heard of half of these, never seen a Digiblast or Apple Pippin but the one that interests me more than anything else was the N-Gage. You see, i'm quite ashamed to say that i had an N-Gage. The old one as well, the one you had to turn on its side to speak on the phone so it looked like you held a taco on the side of your face. Actually, come to think of it, i've still got it in a drawer at home!
But in its defense, some of the games were actually good. Tony Hawks 2 was very enjoyable and good fun to play on the bog at work. It was just a pain in the arse to carry around in your pocket. And swapping the games was annoying but you just downloaded them and stuck them on an sd card, bingo, no more swapping.
I also wanted a Jaguar when it came out, but only because Demolition Man looked cool and they'd recorded extra footage for the game. Never did get to play it, wonder if there's an emulator around...
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.
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.
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