Product Description

With its innovative controls, authentic camera views and interactive city setting, skate. perfectly reproduces the sensation of being on a skateboard! You can actually fill the shoes of your favourite professional skateboarders, including Danny Way, PJ Ladd, Jerry Hsu, Paul Rodriguez and Dennis Busenitz.The unique control system reproduces skateboarding sensations, and the animation is so realistic you'll believe you're actually there!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #306 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Released on: 2007-09-28
• Platform: Xbox 360

Manufacturer's Description
Skate is the closest thing to skateboarding without actually putting your feet on a board. With innovative controls that take advantage of the dual analog sticks, the power of the next-gen hardware, and the ability to sculpt tricks that define your own style, Skate delivers an authentic boarding mecca like no other videogame.

Individual styles combined with physics-driven animations promise that no two tricks will ever be the same. And there’s plenty of room to pull off those tricks - San Vanelona challenges you to explore, find, and own the best spots. You can even capture footage to create and show off your style with friends across the worldâ€"because without footage, it's fiction.

Get ready for all the fun, creativity and culture of skateboarding without the hours of practice, broken bones, and hospital visits.

Customer Reviews

SKATE!
I've had it for nearly a year now (i think about 9 months to be precise) and I still love it. I think to really appreciate this game you have to be a skateboarder, because this game was literraly custom designed by skaters, for skaters. Just like real life it requires practise and technique, it is still playable by anyone, but to really appreciate it and enjoy it you have to understand how skateboarding works. Unlike tony hawk games where you can just magically ride up a kerb at full speed or pull off a 900 triple heelflip barrel roll to switch manual from an ollie off a 6ft ledge, you must master the flickit controlls. there are no button combinations to do tricks, to have to imagine your right stick as the movement of a skateboard, moving it in different ways at different times allows for thousands of trick combinations and to manual or grind you must simply position yourself right and land correctly, unlike tapping up down for a manual or ollieing 4 feet away from a rail, tapping the grind button and suddenly *DING* you teleported on to the rail! I respect Tony Hawks games for making the breakthroughs for the past 10 or so years, but its just started to get too unrealistic. SKATE brings back the realism. So if you are a skateboarder BUY THIS GAME, however if you just like to pretend or think that Tony Hawk's is easier to play because you are too 'simple' to figure out the flickit tricks, then A) you are not a skateboarder B) you have no idea how skateboarding works and C) enjoy pulling off gaps and combos that are completely ridiculous, such as being able to ollie over a car without a ramp or clear 40ft with just 20ft of run up.....and so on.......

Excellent Game!
A real challenge of a game but that's what makes it so fun. With dozens of tricks and excellent gameplay, it makes it one of the greatest games i have ever played on. Also you can customise your charecter hundreds of different ways. Overall 10/10!!!

TH should give up now!
Skate is more of a simulation than a game, compared to THPS that is. I hope that EA decide to make a whole series because this game easily beats the TH series, i do like the Tony Hawk's games but this is a New-Generation of a skateboarding game. The graphics are amazing, the music is good and the gameplay is unbeatable! You may think the camera angle is dodgy, but once you start playing it you realise that it really suits this game. Unlike Tony Hawks to ollie is a simple tap of a button but on Skate you hold the right analog stick down (To crouch and get ready) and quickly flick it back up (To push the back the board down jump and slide your front foot forward). It's also very similar controls to do trick like hold the analog down then flick it left to do a Kickflip or Heelflip depending on if your Goofy or Regular stance.

*Music and sound 9/10
*Graphics 10/10
*Gameplay 10/10
*Overall 9.9/10