Skate Review
If your like me every now and again you just plain want to have fun when gaming. No hassles just game for the sake of gaming. Skate brings gaming back to the old days when it was fun and just challenging enough to keep you wanting more. In no time you will be skating around town nailing grinds and sick flip tricks! Skate takes a new approach to skate games and it makes it feel like your really boarding. When you go down a slope it feels like it, when you crash hard you feel it!
Graphics 3/5
The graphics of skate are good but nothing extrodanary. The player models have stretching and wierd movements at times. The envoirnments look decent but vehichles and ramps are not detailed enough. I guess thats what you get for a huge envorinment that takes about 10-15 minutes to skate staight across.
Sound 5/5
The skate sound is awesome, when you do a flip trick it actually sounds like it really would. If you bail hard you know it hurts when you hit the ground. Best of all the people yelling at you for skating just rocks!
Gameplay 5/5
I give the gameplay a 5 out of 5 for bringing something new to the table when it comes to skating. Instead of pressing and holding a button then releasing to jump you flip the stick back and then forth to olly. It takes a bit to get used to and pull off big airs but its way more realistic then the standard tony hawk jump button. Likewise the game is pretty accurate in terms of how the skating goes down, compeitions and tasks to complete are sorta amaturish but they are fun to do.
Story 3/5
The story behind skate is not to bad, you start off as a small time skater and work your way up getting on magazine covers and doing skate demo tapes. If your a die hard skate fan you will appreciate the skating awards you earn. But for me they just got in the way of the fun gameplay!
Multiplayer 0/5
Please… Its just not all that great 
Total Score 3/5
April 02 2008 12:14 pm | Game Reviews