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Shamikebab said:
Thanks dude.
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Thanks dude.
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Anyone else played it yet? Thoughts?
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i learnt my lesson with Bioshock demo , that took over 11 hours, shall wait a few days then download this, there's no rush
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Well got home from work and mine was done
First impressions were OMG this is great but damn challenging, every trick feels so satisfying. Just something simple like a 360 heelflip down a stair set which i could do blindfolded on tony hawk becomes immensely satisying on Skate. Loving the low down view, really suits the game. Manuals are pretty hard to pull off, your thumb really has to be perfectly in control. Line system works really well. Controls just feel really tight, takes a while to get used to but once you have it feels very fluid. The area in the demo is very generous, i was expecting about 1/4 the play area, and theres a bit of everything, stair sets, rails, bowls, kickers, QP's you name it.
Negatives of the demo are some of the stuff you take for granted with THPS, so theres no flatland tricks (other than manual obviously) theres no inverts as far as i can see, although you can do stalls. No boneless, no comply or anything like that. Video editor was very good, but not as good as the one that will be in THPG, i wish you could have a free camera in the video editor but you can only select from preset ones.
Overall im very impressed by the demo and this remains one of my most wanted games of the year. Pre order placed. Only thing is are they committing commercial suicide by releasing 5 days before halo 3?
First impressions were OMG this is great but damn challenging, every trick feels so satisfying. Just something simple like a 360 heelflip down a stair set which i could do blindfolded on tony hawk becomes immensely satisying on Skate. Loving the low down view, really suits the game. Manuals are pretty hard to pull off, your thumb really has to be perfectly in control. Line system works really well. Controls just feel really tight, takes a while to get used to but once you have it feels very fluid. The area in the demo is very generous, i was expecting about 1/4 the play area, and theres a bit of everything, stair sets, rails, bowls, kickers, QP's you name it.
Negatives of the demo are some of the stuff you take for granted with THPS, so theres no flatland tricks (other than manual obviously) theres no inverts as far as i can see, although you can do stalls. No boneless, no comply or anything like that. Video editor was very good, but not as good as the one that will be in THPG, i wish you could have a free camera in the video editor but you can only select from preset ones.
Overall im very impressed by the demo and this remains one of my most wanted games of the year. Pre order placed. Only thing is are they committing commercial suicide by releasing 5 days before halo 3?
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My download got stuck on 47%. Deleted and started again. Got stuck on 1% for about an hour and just started it again. XBL is a bloody joke when a new demo comes out.
Loved it, im a moderate skating fan but its great anyway. The tricks, as said previously, are so satisfying due to the difficulty now with pulling them off.
I hit an awesome trick earlier, nollie shuvit into 50-50 and then tail slide off a another rail that i landed on as i came off the first..
Love the replay editor too.
Game seems well done. Some strange slow-down ish moments, but couldnt put my finger on it. Loved the challenges, seemed fresh and realistic compared to THs as much as i love TH.
I hit an awesome trick earlier, nollie shuvit into 50-50 and then tail slide off a another rail that i landed on as i came off the first..
Love the replay editor too.
Game seems well done. Some strange slow-down ish moments, but couldnt put my finger on it. Loved the challenges, seemed fresh and realistic compared to THs as much as i love TH.
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slambo69 said:
This is something in the videos looks really annoying, I hope as above though it isn't too bad when actually playing it.
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slambo69 said:
i found it took a bit of getting used to.
my best line so far is a backflip grab over the boob
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I am curently going up about 1% every ten minutes. Bloody joke when I have a 10mb line.
Yeh, manuals are easy but if you push it too far it wont do it, its pretty much just off centre on the stick forwards or backwards..crunchman said:
Practice by manualling to start, fliptrick but catch it with a manual, and so on.. you soon get the thumb memory so that you land in a manual.