Dont bother with this hunk of crap - go buy something from the Tony Hawk series.
User Rating: 2 | Backyard Skateboarding (2004) PC
This game is simply terrible. Starting off with the tricks, they just plain suck. 4000 points and 4 buttons for a simple melon grab? And do't even get me started on the special tricks, involving doing the most unrealistic things, that don't even make sense. A trick called a calculator, where you pull your board in front of your face and pretend to type in numbers, is just plain stupid. The graphics are terrible, and run at a locked resolution of 800x600, and just plain dont look good. I beat this game easily, all challenges, in under 4 hours. There are some lame "boss" challenges at the end of every level, but they are extremely easy. The levels are extremely unrealistic, with rails hundreds of feet long curving all over the place. Perfectly transitioned dirt quarterpipe. BS. The sound is overused, it sounds like the same person changed their voice, and then voiced all the characters. Dont bother with this piece of crap, go buy one of the tony hawk games for real skateboarding.
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