After giving it a good go on Saturday, all in all it's more of the same, which in this case is no bad thing. I played the first two games to death and in all honesty, this doesn't offer anything radically new. That said, the darkslide and underflip variations do add quite a bit to the trick system. The off-board physics have been significantly tightened up since the last game too, so walking around isn't so much of a pain in the arse now.
The animation's been improved further and is looking really slick here. Seriously, in the opening scenes the animation is super lifelike- very impressive stuff. You get to choose a low or a higher camera angle from the outset too. The graphics look sharper overall but I didn't notice anything massively different, though there seems to be much fewer particle/light effects, presumably because these caused a bit of slowdown in the previous game.
Reda is gone as the camera dude following you around, which doesn't bother me as his voice got on my tits a bit in the end. Jason Lee is in instead as the coach.
The security guards are gone apparently, which is very good news because they got very annoying in Skate 2 and I thought they interfered with the game's basic premise of being free to skate how you like, wherever you like. Haven't tried the online yet, but as the previews have mentioned, this iteration is all about 'crews' challenging each other. Going on how the online's been incoporated the first two games, I can see it being pretty good here, but I need to explore further.
Overall, I'd say if you've never played Skate, this will be the game to get, and probably also if you played the first but skipped the second. If you played both, maybe you won't find much to justify buying this, but if you're like me then it's a no-brainer purchase.
Oh yeah, I think there's some sort of pre-order incentive too where you get an extra park to download or something, but I haven't checked the details.
The animation's been improved further and is looking really slick here. Seriously, in the opening scenes the animation is super lifelike- very impressive stuff. You get to choose a low or a higher camera angle from the outset too. The graphics look sharper overall but I didn't notice anything massively different, though there seems to be much fewer particle/light effects, presumably because these caused a bit of slowdown in the previous game.
Reda is gone as the camera dude following you around, which doesn't bother me as his voice got on my tits a bit in the end. Jason Lee is in instead as the coach.
The security guards are gone apparently, which is very good news because they got very annoying in Skate 2 and I thought they interfered with the game's basic premise of being free to skate how you like, wherever you like. Haven't tried the online yet, but as the previews have mentioned, this iteration is all about 'crews' challenging each other. Going on how the online's been incoporated the first two games, I can see it being pretty good here, but I need to explore further.
Overall, I'd say if you've never played Skate, this will be the game to get, and probably also if you played the first but skipped the second. If you played both, maybe you won't find much to justify buying this, but if you're like me then it's a no-brainer purchase.
Oh yeah, I think there's some sort of pre-order incentive too where you get an extra park to download or something, but I haven't checked the details.
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