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Skate (Xbox 360) | 
| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: £24.99
Buy New: £14.98
You Save: £10.01 (40%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  38 reviews
Sales Rank: 515
Platform: Xbox 360
Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
Media: Video Game
Age: 11 - 18 years
Operating System: Xbox 360
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.5
EAN: 5030930057541
ASIN: B000RO7GBU
Release Date: September 28, 2007
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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Product Description
With its innovative controls, authentic camera views and interactive city setting, skate. perfectly reproduces the sensation of being on a skateboard! You can actually fill the shoes of your favourite professional skateboarders, including Danny Way, PJ Ladd, Jerry Hsu, Paul Rodriguez and Dennis Busenitz.The unique control system reproduces skateboarding sensations, and the animation is so realistic you'll believe you're actually there!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 33 more reviews...
 Skate or TH October 10, 2008
If your stuck on choosing between Skate or TH proving grounds like I was at Christmas last year you should buy Skate as overall it is the better game, as a skater myself I can say that skate is easily 10 times as realistic as TH and you can have more fun the just button mashing to see how many tricks you can do. Also skate is about the closest gaming will ever get to the feel of actually skating where as TH is just press some buttons do some ridiculous combo, skate involves actual skill to do lots of the tricks and you stack if you don't land them well but in TH you will almost always just keep going so I think that if your stuck on which to buy, then skate is the game for you!
SKATE! September 1, 2008
I've had it for nearly a year now (i think about 9 months to be precise) and I still love it. I think to really appreciate this game you have to be a skateboarder, because this game was literraly custom designed by skaters, for skaters. Just like real life it requires practise and technique, it is still playable by anyone, but to really appreciate it and enjoy it you have to understand how skateboarding works. Unlike tony hawk games where you can just magically ride up a kerb at full speed or pull off a 900 triple heelflip barrel roll to switch manual from an ollie off a 6ft ledge, you must master the flickit controlls. there are no button combinations to do tricks, to have to imagine your right stick as the movement of a skateboard, moving it in different ways at different times allows for thousands of trick combinations and to manual or grind you must simply position yourself right and land correctly, unlike tapping up down for a manual or ollieing 4 feet away from a rail, tapping the grind button and suddenly *DING* you teleported on to the rail! I respect Tony Hawks games for making the breakthroughs for the past 10 or so years, but its just started to get too unrealistic. SKATE brings back the realism. So if you are a skateboarder BUY THIS GAME, however if you just like to pretend or think that Tony Hawk's is easier to play because you are too 'simple' to figure out the flickit tricks, then A) you are not a skateboarder B) you have no idea how skateboarding works and C) enjoy pulling off gaps and combos that are completely ridiculous, such as being able to ollie over a car without a ramp or clear 40ft with just 20ft of run up.....and so on.......
Excellent Game! August 26, 2008
A real challenge of a game but that's what makes it so fun. With dozens of tricks and excellent gameplay, it makes it one of the greatest games i have ever played on. Also you can customise your charecter hundreds of different ways. Overall 10/10!!!
TH should give up now! August 16, 2008
Skate is more of a simulation than a game, compared to THPS that is. I hope that EA decide to make a whole series because this game easily beats the TH series, i do like the Tony Hawk's games but this is a New-Generation of a skateboarding game. The graphics are amazing, the music is good and the gameplay is unbeatable! You may think the camera angle is dodgy, but once you start playing it you realise that it really suits this game. Unlike Tony Hawks to ollie is a simple tap of a button but on Skate you hold the right analog stick down (To crouch and get ready) and quickly flick it back up (To push the back the board down jump and slide your front foot forward). It's also very similar controls to do trick like hold the analog down then flick it left to do a Kickflip or Heelflip depending on if your Goofy or Regular stance.
*Music and sound 9/10
*Graphics 10/10
*Gameplay 10/10
*Overall 9.9/10
Seriously Fun July 9, 2008
First got the game at Christmas, and now, even after 7 months of playing it, you still find new places on the map that you have never seen before. Its tricky at first but soon it gets easy. Its so fun to just roll around the city, and If you skateboard (like myself) normally, it allows you to be a super good on a board when you cant do half of it!!
BUY THIS GAME!!!!!!!
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