I know its taken a while to get my impressions up, this is because i am finding it hard to pull myself away from the game. While i have Zelda, Rayman, Red Steel, Wii Sports this game has been getting a good 90% of my wii play.
Where to begin with this one... First of all i want to address the reviews you may have been seeing on the net. I find them totally unfair, as this is a fantastic game, if it had been random Bobs skateboard game then it would have received great reviews. However with the having the Tony Hawks name people (reviewers) have expectations.
The controls are very easy to get right into the game.
You hold the wii mote horizontaly
A - special
1 - tricks/grind
2 - crouch/jump
d pad when used with a or 1 changes your tricks
Shake - to recover or use a speed boost
rotate in air- spin in that direction
I am yet to have any problems with control, they have been thought about, also useing the wii mote i can feel changes depending on the boards, they do represent the stats well.
While the game is fast you always feel like your in control
The game (for me at least) still has the core feel of the Tony Hawks series even in this new setting. The objective in this game is to complete challenges in order to recieve experience points(The poins available also range in how difficult the level/challenge is) . When you get to the target score you level up (which opens a new set of challenges).
The challenges come in many forms, some of these will be familiar to Tony Hawks players and some will be new. The main challenges are:
Race- you have to finish in the top 3 to gain points, the higher the place the better the points score.
Trick - you will be given a gold, silver, and bronze score before starting the level and you have a set amount of time to get to the goal and to reach any of the pre set scores, if you do so you get the point on offer.
Time Attack - You have to skate through the gates to gain bonus time, how much time youi have at the end depends on how many points you get.
Beat your rival - You have to get to the bottom of the track before your rival, its basicly a 1 on 1 race
Takedown - In this event you have to skate down the track knocking down any random people you see, you have to hit a set amount to gain bronze silver or gold level, and again depending on how well you do results in how many points you gain.
In sure theres one more but i can't remember it (it only shows up once or maybe twice in 50 or so challenges).
The challenges take the form of Blockbusters syle grids so if you can't do one you can take another route and revist them later (to unlock all the challenges and gain all your experience points).
The challenges take part of sections of tracks, you have places like Rome, Edinburgh, LA etc.. i think in all theres about 7 or 8 places but it feels like so many more the way the game has been structures. Then you have the challenges that are top to bottom, meaning you have the play the whole track.
The multiplayer games are also very fun.
The only ones i have tried are the trick attack and get a head
Trick attack - This is standard do the best score before you finish the race.
Get a head - you have to stay in the lead and keep your head, a clock starts to count up how long your in the lead and its the person with the most time in the lead at the end of the race wins. As soon as you are knocked out of fist you lose the head on your skateboarder which is a cool little something
The soundtrack is standard Tony Hawks Rock / Emo selection about 40 tracks you can either play a boarders favourite 10 or make a custom playlist, however i would have liked to have seen a preview option as i can never remember the tracks i like.
Graphics would not look out of place on the Gamecube but hey its to be expected as the Wii is not about graphical might. I have experienced a slight split second slowdown if i boost in some busy areas but other than that everything runs smoothly even in 4 player.
This is a great little game which has not been given the chance is should have been because it trys something new, and personally i think the game pulls it off.
The game will last about 12 hours-15 hours in single player depending on how good you are and how complete you want to be, after that you can try to beat any scores and theres a very good multiplayer (which i am yet to fully explore) waiting.
If you can get over the fact this is not a traditional Tony Hawks game then its a very worthy addition to anybodys Wii collection.
Where to begin with this one... First of all i want to address the reviews you may have been seeing on the net. I find them totally unfair, as this is a fantastic game, if it had been random Bobs skateboard game then it would have received great reviews. However with the having the Tony Hawks name people (reviewers) have expectations.
The controls are very easy to get right into the game.
You hold the wii mote horizontaly
A - special
1 - tricks/grind
2 - crouch/jump
d pad when used with a or 1 changes your tricks
Shake - to recover or use a speed boost
rotate in air- spin in that direction
I am yet to have any problems with control, they have been thought about, also useing the wii mote i can feel changes depending on the boards, they do represent the stats well.
While the game is fast you always feel like your in control
The game (for me at least) still has the core feel of the Tony Hawks series even in this new setting. The objective in this game is to complete challenges in order to recieve experience points(The poins available also range in how difficult the level/challenge is) . When you get to the target score you level up (which opens a new set of challenges).
The challenges come in many forms, some of these will be familiar to Tony Hawks players and some will be new. The main challenges are:
Race- you have to finish in the top 3 to gain points, the higher the place the better the points score.
Trick - you will be given a gold, silver, and bronze score before starting the level and you have a set amount of time to get to the goal and to reach any of the pre set scores, if you do so you get the point on offer.
Time Attack - You have to skate through the gates to gain bonus time, how much time youi have at the end depends on how many points you get.
Beat your rival - You have to get to the bottom of the track before your rival, its basicly a 1 on 1 race
Takedown - In this event you have to skate down the track knocking down any random people you see, you have to hit a set amount to gain bronze silver or gold level, and again depending on how well you do results in how many points you gain.
In sure theres one more but i can't remember it (it only shows up once or maybe twice in 50 or so challenges).
The challenges take the form of Blockbusters syle grids so if you can't do one you can take another route and revist them later (to unlock all the challenges and gain all your experience points).
The challenges take part of sections of tracks, you have places like Rome, Edinburgh, LA etc.. i think in all theres about 7 or 8 places but it feels like so many more the way the game has been structures. Then you have the challenges that are top to bottom, meaning you have the play the whole track.
The multiplayer games are also very fun.
The only ones i have tried are the trick attack and get a head
Trick attack - This is standard do the best score before you finish the race.
Get a head - you have to stay in the lead and keep your head, a clock starts to count up how long your in the lead and its the person with the most time in the lead at the end of the race wins. As soon as you are knocked out of fist you lose the head on your skateboarder which is a cool little something
The soundtrack is standard Tony Hawks Rock / Emo selection about 40 tracks you can either play a boarders favourite 10 or make a custom playlist, however i would have liked to have seen a preview option as i can never remember the tracks i like.
Graphics would not look out of place on the Gamecube but hey its to be expected as the Wii is not about graphical might. I have experienced a slight split second slowdown if i boost in some busy areas but other than that everything runs smoothly even in 4 player.
This is a great little game which has not been given the chance is should have been because it trys something new, and personally i think the game pulls it off.
The game will last about 12 hours-15 hours in single player depending on how good you are and how complete you want to be, after that you can try to beat any scores and theres a very good multiplayer (which i am yet to fully explore) waiting.
If you can get over the fact this is not a traditional Tony Hawks game then its a very worthy addition to anybodys Wii collection.
) than a normal TH game, even with the simplified controls.
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