Skate 2
- Thread starter Shamikebab
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Demo is up people 
Downloaded, go! go! go! 
Well it's everything I expected, feels very well polished, now back to playing
Well now I've finished my first time limit I'll go into a bit more detail:
Graphics are a slight but noticeable improvement and gameplay felt silky smooth.
Audio is very good, sound effects seem pretty much the same, music in the demo was very good.
New tricks feel very natural to do and I can see them being very useful in lines, especially the inverts and various plant tricks. Getting off your board allows you to move things around, very easy to use and really opens up some new lines. The park in the demo has a good range of pieces to trick off, spent most of my time on the kickers and rails to the right as you go in.
Replay editor felt a little unintuitive compared to Skate 1's, however once Id read the helpp) it became just as easy to use, can't figure out how to change camera filters or if that feature has been removed. The new camera options in replays are brilliant, should allow a much larger variety of vids.
Tim limit seemed a little stingy compared to last time (15 mins last time, this time you get time based on completing objectives, I ended up with about 6 after finishing everything) Im going to play it again and ignore the objectives and see how much I get.
Cant wait for this now
Graphics are a slight but noticeable improvement and gameplay felt silky smooth.
Audio is very good, sound effects seem pretty much the same, music in the demo was very good.
New tricks feel very natural to do and I can see them being very useful in lines, especially the inverts and various plant tricks. Getting off your board allows you to move things around, very easy to use and really opens up some new lines. The park in the demo has a good range of pieces to trick off, spent most of my time on the kickers and rails to the right as you go in.
Replay editor felt a little unintuitive compared to Skate 1's, however once Id read the help
p) it became just as easy to use, can't figure out how to change camera filters or if that feature has been removed. The new camera options in replays are brilliant, should allow a much larger variety of vids. Tim limit seemed a little stingy compared to last time (15 mins last time, this time you get time based on completing objectives, I ended up with about 6 after finishing everything) Im going to play it again and ignore the objectives and see how much I get.
Cant wait for this now
Mine downloaded incredibly quickly, come along way from the first Skate demo, that took half a day!
Im trying not to play this demo too much, with the first Skate demo I played it far too much and when the game came I never skated the community centre again.
Really? I though it was a definite improvement visually. Also does anyone else really like the opening menu sequence 
I liked the player customisation too. Seemed somewhat improved with plenty of options!
Yeah that was drastically improved. In Skate 1 it was really slow to change and buy clothes, you had to wait ages for stuff to load and preview it on your character but it was very quick in this demo.
Next week, Thursday.
Ouch!!!
It's out 23rd Jan
Yeah I went back to Skate 1 last night and the change in graphics is significant. Also Id forgotten how damn annoying the camera could be at times, seems in a much better place in Skate 2.
I have never ever played Skate online, I intend to remedy this oversight with Skate 2. Everyone up for some multiplayer?
I would get the first, play it then trade it in towards the second when the price has dropped a bit.
I've no idea, if you get the first one before Friday I'll try multiplayer though. Its mostly a single player game really in my experience, sounds like the multiplayer is better fleshed out in the sequel.
Skate 2 has got a new thing where you can go into online free skate from single player really quickly (similar to Burnout Paradise) whether its the whole map or just divides a section off I don't know. Should be a good feature though, will have to do a list of people that have it so we can add each other.
Yeah free skating online now lets you start mini challenges as supposed to going into a full blown new mode (although you can do that as well) Should make for some good play.