Another fun-to-play Tony Hawk game

User Rating: 8 | Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam WII
By DuskLord | Review Date:
Alright, just picked up my Wii and I bought this game separately for 20 euros at Gamestop. Thought it would be a rather worthless effort at that price... But instead I was positively surprised. Even my wife likes it, and she doesn't care for games at all usually.

This one's so much harder to master than the older TH games with "regular controls". You use your Wiimote to turn your skater, and if he happens to fall, you have to shake the Wiimote to get him to stand up. Also speed boosts are done by shaking the Wiimote. Wanna use the D-pad? You can't. D-pad presses let you hit and kick pedestrians, and you can't reconfigure it to turn your skater for easier gameplay.

The standard character customization is there again. Unfortunately you can't customize your skills this time.

Shove the starting difficulties aside, the game's fun to play, quite challenging (I think it's the hardest Tony Hawk game so far) and actually fun for the whole family. Nice graphics, decent sounds, pretty sharp controls. Was pretty worried how all that would work with the small amount of buttons on the Wiimote. It works. And most of all it's fun. Can you ask for more with such a bargain price?

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