Publisher: Electronic Arts Developer: Black Box, EA Black Box Published: September 24, 2007 Category: Sports, Other, Extreme 2007 has been a year of several skateboarding games since the Tony Hawks series.Most of them failed abruptly as they were duplicate with the same technique and gameplay.The Activision prominent maker of skateboarding games had a severe competition with the arrival of EA's Skate,At times Skate looks like simulation style Tony Hawks but aside the skateboards,the two don't have whole in common.Great thanks to Skate's superb control system, Which adds relevant joy to the players.Skate adds excellent analog controls and triggers,this makes it an awesome system of tricks.Unfortunately,the usage of these controls is done on challenges and goals that extremely annoying.Moreover,the Skate provides with a unstable frame rate. Presentation - 8.5/10 The Skate story/career mode is straightforward. It starts when you get slammed by a bus and going in for surgery.This makes you change your face and body type.Once,you are ready to go it's time to win.The benefits of winning-be on the cover-page of a magazine, you'll have to finish may photo goals.Some of them are quite easy just like achieving points on certain periods,Doing some specific tricks,some of them are time attacks or beat trick contests.Some of them are also to skate on no-skate zones which are patrolled by security guards,Some require you to do a lot of spins,remaining in the air for 10 secs and so on.The film goals are probably the trickiest ones in the entire game.As you progress to through the game you will come across many places including such indoor locations as the Plan B Warehouse and the X Games Stadium.There is also a community reason . You can use replay editor and capture several masterpieces and share them around the world.These can be viewed through the menu in the game or the game's website,it's nice because you can see the replays even if you don't own the game. Graphics - 9/10 On visual aspects,Skate has realistic looks and presents the environment nicely.The skaters look good and the animation is just perfect.The crazy visuals gives it street look.By realizing the supreme use of next-generation consoles Skate presents the graphics in a new style. Gameplay - 9/10 Skate moves the movement controls to the left analog stick.The right analog stick is for tricks such as flips,Ollie.For doing small tricks such as kickflips is a more complicated part.The triggers are used to perform grabs in the air.Their is a depth in the game of such modified controls but it isn't the best of all.A lot tricks are done in quite similar ways in achieving goals sometimes when you get in contact with one of the tricks you would be performing it again and again which in-turn gets frustrating esp. in Skate competitions, where you have to perform the same tricks as your opponent.Grinding in Skate is easy,just get into the air and land on an edge.During the game the camera is zoomed to your skater which means you will be blocked and unable to see a clear view.Skate is very crucial on timing meaning on how long you crouch.Their is no skater skill boosting,unlocking tricks etc. except the personal skill boost. Sound - 8/10 As for soundtracks they are a mixture of weird mixes of music that actually don't play throughout the game often.Skaters often carry radios with them and then you faintly start to hear them.But most of the music is little too shabby to hear.Besides the soundtracks the audio effects are tremendous like when you skid the skateboard hard the wheels make noise.The presence ingame audio is really well detailed. Replayability - 6/10 So,as there are both ups and downs for Skate but still is good choice on your collection with high potentials.Truly a game to try for skateboarding fans.But,in turn I believe the replay of the game is another pack of annoying and frustrating matters.The game is not at all comfortable for replaying. Misc.( For extra information ) - Like other sports games, Skate is filled with plenty of sponsored equipment and other product placement.EA and Adidas sponsor for the shoe equipment.These are often introduced and advertised.The offers different advertisements downloads but still the lacks the majority of ads.Resulting you would see the same advertisements over and over again. Overall Rating - 40.5/50 Full description Skate delivers the real feel of skating in a fully reactive skateboarding city, utilizing the power of the Xbox 360 and PS3 consoles for advanced new control and physics techniques to feel through every kick-flip and land every aerial. The game features professional skaters such as Danny Way and PJ Ladd. Skate's unique control scheme captures the true feel of skating -- with physics-driven animations, gamers will have a unique gaming experience every time they pick up the controller since no two tricks will ever be the same. You will be needing this Winterr.
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