Abstract: When Skate was released in 2007, it took a fresh new approach with a control scheme that made tricks feel more realistic and satisfying than in any previous game. Skate 2 refines this system somewhat and, impressively, adds a wealth of new features and...
Abstract: When EA Black Box dropped Skate onto store shelves in September 2007, it not only put up the first real competition for the long-time king Tony Hawk franchise, but wiped the floor with it. Selling twice as many copies as Activisions near decade-old se...
Abstract: Skate 2 NEWCOMER Skate not only outsold the latest Tony Hawk game by two-to-one, it also forced Activision to go back to the drawing board after nine years of annual skateboarding games. Skate was far more realistic than what had come before. It w...
Abstract: Not so long ago the genre of skateboarding video games was entirely dominated by the Tony Hawk series. But after what seemed like eighty-three Tony Hawk titles, EA Games finally had the cojones to introduce “Skate”.The original Skate came out in 2007 a...
Abstract: Skateboarding is not about kick-flipping over elephants, gapping moving helicopters or sliding the entire length of a roller coaster on a two-foot piece of wood. Sure, there are a handful of individuals who have done that sort of stuff (probably) but t...
Improves on the original in many ways, but fails to address its most fundamental flaw – that its challenges are generally too narrow, prescriptive and frustrating. The fantastic new Hall Of Meat mode offers some considerable compensation, though. 8...
