Video Game
Flickit?The intuitive Flickit dual analog control lets you perform skill-based trick executions that capture the real-world feel and true attitude of skating., Define Your Style?Create your own style and personality with animation and physics that give you the freedom to decide how your skater looks, feels and rides. Get creative as you develop tricks and string them together to create lines., Without Footage, It's Fiction?Capture your sickest moves in game and put them online for the world to see. Use innovative online video editing tools and add music to create the ultimate skate vid., Create Your Own Story?Skaters don't follow rules. Open progression allows gamers to skate how they want to skate. Get famous by generating mainstream hype or go the infamous route by outrunning security guards, owning spots and building street cred. Depending on how you roll in the game, you'll start seeing your own coverage in Thrasher or The Skateboard Mag., Make San Vanelona Your Playground?Get chased by security guards, impress/annoy citizens, ride with pros, discover skate shops, and make spots your own in this fully reactive city.
SummaryImpressive, unique game.Pros: The learning curve is steep, but necessarily so: most of the game's challenge is learning how to use the skateboard. Learning the controls is inseparable from the game itself.
The sound in this game is perfect. The musical selection is one of the best I've seen in a skating game; a good mix of punk, rock, and hip-hop. You won't hear the same song again for hours. Perhaps the greatest feature sound-wise is how music is integrated with the game. Places that are particularly good for skating, such as backyard pools, will have music playing near them and skaters swarming.
Cons: About once every half hour or so, the physics will do something that reminds you that you're playing a game.
The AI for the people is exactly how people are in real life. This isn't a good thing. Oftentimes, they're indifferent to the fact that you're skating. So as you skate through a plaza full of people, expect most of them to think you're not coming straight at them. If you are repeatedly trying for a grind on some stair set, expect people to observe you skating the same spot repeatedly from far away, then get repeatedly in your way even after crashing into them multiple times.
Reviewer's Comments
skate. perfectly captures the feeling of skateboarding. From the steep learning curve to the "trial and error" process of landing a trick to the laid back career mode, this is everything a skateboarding game should be.
The game is such a unique and different experience that I highly recommend that everyone at least try this undoubtedly monumental game.
Ultimately, though, however much the game satisfies you is ultimately dependent on what kind of gamer you are. While there is plenty to do and a lot of places to skate, it's a very much self-motivated game, much like skateboarding in real life. However, skate's controls are so unique and work so well that you'll want to play this game for hours on end, if you're anything like me.
