The character customisation is better, and there seem to be alot more options to choose from. Frame rate seems to be much better too. The graphics looks worse, not as good as the first Skate, anyway. Plus the walking around feels so clunky.
I'm still playing it now so I'll post more. Also, I think they took Cannonball out, unless the buttons have just been changed.
I went home on my lunch break and started downloading it, of course it was at like 94% by the time I had to go back to work, so I get to wait another 3 hours before I get the chance to try it out.
Now I haven't had the pleasure of playing Skate 1, not properly anyway. I was on free skate for a few minutes at my girlfriends house but that's it. So with not much to compare this to I thought it was a brilliant demo. Creating a skater is good, with a lot of options. The controls are pretty good, I've gotten used to them now that I've played the Career Demo through about 6 times (and no I didn't get bored once lol). The moving objects around is good and simple. I agree that walking around feels strange, as if they've attached lead weights to your character, but all in all I'd be very happy to purchase this game. I'm going to wait until it drops down to about 30GBP though.
I hate that they expanded on the "Hall of Meat"; I want to skate damn it, I could careless how painful that injury was! The demo felt just as frustrating as original game, I really don't see it being better than the original...it just has more stuff.
Please tell me you can add tattoos now.....that's the one thing that drove me crazy about skate......a skating game with NO tattoo options....whats that all about!
Played the demo and didn't like it very well. I liked the first Skate, but the environments and park in the demo left a lot to be desired. The first games demo had a much better park. Also, the walking is really wonky and awkward. Moving the dumpster was a nice flow breaker, too.
Please tell me you can add tattoos now.....that's the one thing that drove me crazy about skate......a skating game with NO tattoo options....whats that all about!adamus007
There are tattoos, and from the videos I've seen you can create your own graphics, possibly you could use that for tattoos too? As for the game, it feels more or less the same.. I was hoping that some of the stick gestures would be a tiny bit more forgiving, but they are the same, the cannonball is still a lame trick, always will be, walking around is underwhelming but still welcome, moving objects it pretty sweet though, still worth a buy if you ask me for the new create-a-player and environments, I'm really hoping they add the option to use your xbox live vision camera to make your face, my face never comes out anything like mine.
The graphics have more detail, but the framerate seems to have suffered for it. And what's going on with the massive amounts of slowdown when you fall off the board? Other then that I really like how it turned out. The your character also seems to have more frames of animation, which makes all the tricks flow together smoother then in the first Skate. The characters also looks better. Day one buy for me! This and Stoked.
Edit: You're right about getting off the board, the controls are very clunky and cumbersome. I like the new feature that if you hit something your skater jumps off the board, like if you clip something, instead of just falling to the ground. It also looks like the added cumulative damage to the skater skin. I fell off my board and my character had skinned up elbows. Pretty cool.
I like the new feature that if you hit something your skater jumps off the board, like if you clip something, instead of just falling to the ground. It also looks like the added cumulative damage to the skater skin. I fell off my board and my character had skinned up elbows. Pretty cool.
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I love how your clothes get dirty in the specific spots that you fell on, wicked awesome detail.
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