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I made an account just to rate this game. I am rating this from the perspective of skating for 15 years and playing the previous EA Skate games. I think it is actually a pretty solid effort, and great for someone who has skated in the past. There is no campaign, but the tutorial for tricks teaches you enough to go and learn and practice on your own. The game takes practice, so if you are not into that, it is not for you. The checkpoint system is very good and allows you to continually try lines, hit large rails, and continue to try and perfect whatever you are doing, this is a major plus for me. While EA skate used one joystick to control both feet, this one separates the controls of the feet so each joystick controls one foot, and I think this level of control is good. In the same vein, one of my main criticisms of this game is that the controls for fakie and switch are the exact same as regular and nollie. So the motion to do a nollie flip and switch flip are the same. This is confusing when you are just trying to cruise around and do tricks. Inevitably, an obstacle will be and your way, and if you are skating switch stance, it seems counter-intuitive to do a nollie flip motion for the player to perform a switch flip. If you are using the checkpoint system and know the trick you are trying and are doing it over and over, then this control scheme is fine, at least for me, but seeing as I like to do both, I think we should get the option to invert the controls, so that a switch flip is just the opposite motion of a nollie flip, as opposed to the exact same move.