Abstract: Designing games around a system's strengths is always a good idea -- and Skate It strives to strike a balance between understanding the DS' limitations while making the most of its strengths. Solid controls, multiplayer options, and creation tools stan...
Abstract: Name: Skate ItGenre: Skateboarding SimulationPlatform: Nintendo DSLast year, Skate took the extreme sports gaming world by storm. With its innovative and challenging control scheme, superior visuals and open-world environment, EA’s thrash-fest unseate...
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Published: 2008-12-01, Author: Steve , review by: gamespy.com
Stylus is an excellent way to do tricks; challenge-based campaign moves along quickly; tricks and environments look impressive.
Visuals can be lackluster; slopes and walls can be hard to differentiate between; background story and musical choices are limited.
EAs Skate series has two main goals (apart from diverting market share away from Tony Hawk): give players unique ways to perform tricks and create the most realistic skating experience around. In other words, make skating with your hands feel as excit...
Abstract: Its still a young franchise, but the Skate series already has two distinct features: its unique "flickit" controls and its realistic depiction of skating. Each system the series has appeared on has used the hardware in different ways to replicate the ...
Abstract: Skateboarding games certainly aren't for everyone. The sport doesn't have the biggest audience in the world, and even those who enjoy watching (or boarding themselves) won't necessarily get a kick out of pulling off tricks in a video game.For those wh...
Abstract: At Electronic Arts booth at this years Electronic Entertainment Expo we had the opportunity to check out a very recent build of the Nintendo DS version of Skate It (dated July 11th, in fact). The game is still in extremely early alpha stage, but you ...
Abstract: EA:s Skate har hittat till Nintendo DS och nu används pekpennan till att göra rullbrädetricks. Monetär mjölkning eller en bärbar brädrevolution? Vi har svaret
