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Overall Critic Score:3.3945
Skate Critic Reviews
For years now, anyone who's wanted a skateboarding game to play has only had the Tony Hawk series to choose from. While Neversoft's games were never bad, the series has started to feel a little long in the tooth. EA saw an opportunity to get into this...read the complete Skate review at Gamer 2.0
It’s very unusual for a company to have a monopoly on a particular genre, but Activision has effectively has just that on skateboarding games ever since the first Tony Hawk title. Other publishers have tried to capitalise on this lucrative market...read the complete Skate review at PALGN AU
Dating back to 1986, with Atari’s coin-op 720, there have been a slew of skateboarding games. There was Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2, 3 and 4, Tony Hawk’s Underground, Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland and Tony Hawk’s Project...read the complete Skate review at Planet Xbox 360
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With Activision’s Tony Hawk Pro Skater, the Birdman asserted himself as the king of the skateboarding genre, decimating all would-be deposers and making it very difficult for anyone to challenge. However, EA has decided to throw their hat into the ring...read the complete Skate review at GameZone
Skate, developed by Black Box and published by Electronic Arts, is perhaps the most realistic skateboarding game yet. Whereas the Tony Hawk games have always been very out-of-this-world and over-the-top, Skate's the opposite. It's down-to-earth and more...read the complete Skate review at Xbox 360 Advanced
For skate. EA presents gamers with a huge change in gameplay mechanics for the skateboarding genre, a change that almost makes it a sim of the sport, and certainly a huge step away from the near arcadey approach the Tony Hawk’s games are known for. For...read the complete Skate review at DarkZero
Every year we get another Tony Hawk game and every year, skateboard game fans wonder what things might be like if Tony wasn't the only game in town. And now, EA is answering that question with skate, a new title that offers its own take on the...read the complete Skate review at AtomicGamer
When it comes to the extreme sports genre, the Tony Hawk series has been giving us more of the same for years, and fans continue to eat it up. Black Box and EA have seen fit to challenge that throne with...read the complete Skate review at Cheat Code Central
Realism, and how it translates into video games, is a funny thing. Sometimes it undoubtedly makes a game better. Pulling players in, and immersing them deeply in the subject matter. But sometimes it can backfire when the not-so-entertaining aspects of...read the complete Skate review at GameTrailers
Since the early 80's and Gleaming the Cube, skateboarding has been socially acceptable by most of the masses, except for strip store retail owners and snooty types. It has also been accepted into the open arms of gamers since 720° and Skate or Die. It...read the complete Skate review at Gaming Age
Skate's analog trick system is revolutionary for the genre, but the game surrounding those mechanics isn't quite as good....read the complete Skate review at GameSpot
For the last three generations of consoles, no skating series has even made a dent in Tony Hawk’s sheer dominance over the genre. Considering that, I have to commend EA for the ballsy move of spending the time and money required to take a serious shot a...read the complete Skate review at Lawrence
Tony Hawk's video games have dominated the virtual skateboarding landscape since the first one hit in 1999, without even a whiff of competition. So it was a must that an eventual adversary would have to be daring. EA's Skate is. It's also an admirable,...read the complete Skate review at The Onion
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