Skate

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

It's my favorite skate game. I love the feel and funniness of this title. But it's just skate. It's good at what it does, it's just nothing that great, but nothing bad.

Activision and Neversoft's Tony Hawk games were already on a steady decline in popularity by the time 2007 rolled around so it was probably the perfect time for Black Box and EA to release Skate. The first Skate game came out at the special time where Tony Hawk games were no longer must by games but the extreme sports genre of gaming wasn't yet ready to go into hibernation. This is what lead Skate to become the top dog of skating video games for a few years, along with the completely unique approach to the sport with a more realistic portrayal and completely revamped control system. At the time, Skate was the best skateboarding simulator anyone could ask for. It had a wide array of tricks, a completely open world map full of dreamlike skate spots, a character creator, a list of legendary pros... I could go on. When Skate was released, I'd never played anything like it beforehand. The closest comparison I can make is the SSX games, another EA extreme sports franchise. Despite the obvious connection to the Tony Hawk games, SSX and Skate have much more similar control schemes. Even the presentation of the first Skate game reminds me a lot of SSX On Tour's presentation. Anyway, Skate is a great game. The only reason I'm not rating it higher is because it was heavily outshined by its sequels. I beat this game in February of 2020.

the original Skate is a decent game. The physics in this one aren't quite to the level of the 3rd game but better than the 2nd **** whole security chasing you thing can be pretty annoying,particularly if you are trying to do an **** controls scheme is excellent however,with the FlickIt control system.These can cause problems though,as in challenges where you have to copy a trick,it's lack of precision can result in you failing the challenge. The graphics are medicore,though the framerate remains solid throughout the whole game. The sound design is mediore,but the soundtrack is good. Overall,the original Skate ranks inbetween 2 and 3 for quality for **** has the better physics and single-player design,but gets crushed by Skate 3 in almost every ****'s still worth playing however.

Repetitive, annoying dross, doesn't compare to the decent TH games by a long way. If you like repeating the same move over and over again until the game decides you've done it enough and lets you move on to the next bit where you repeat some more then you will like this, otherwise avoid.