Not everything I hoped for
User Rating: 4.5 | Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam DS
Now,people who live in San Francisco,or people who just like downhill skateboarding over regular skateboarding would like this game,but I don't.To me it doesn't feel like a skateboarding game should,and getting an online match without any Wi-Fi friend codes can be a frustrating mess.When you start playing this game,you'll see a cutscene after training.Right when you do start playing this game,you'll notice that the graphics haven't really improved from Tony Hawks American Sk8land,and neither does the gameplay.It's still the basic controls.But,tricks are hard to double execute.Meaning that you can't do a 360 flip,or a double kickflip.That's because in the game,they also want you to hold tricks,by holding the buttons you used to execute the trick.Weird.Another problem is that when they want you to do a trick in the desired area,you can't easily come back to it,because you're going uphill.Sure,you can go to the pause menu and retry the goal,but sometimes it takes a while to get back to the desired area.Another annoying part about these types of goals is that they tell you where to go,but they don't highlight it or make it any easier to figure it out,so if you can't figure out where to go,then you're screwed.A big problem with the Wi-Fi is if you try to play with random people,then you're going to have to wait a literal hour just to find four people to play with you.So,you better hope that you have people on your friends list or else you'll be waiting forever.I've had some mixed reactions with this game,it's pretty cool,but right when something cool could be placed,something completely different and stupid comes out of nowhere.I really wonder if they frieken played this game before releasing it to the public.Well,I wouldn't buy this game if I were you,because it's just not worth your time.
-Sk8more67
