Skate the Game

I started playing Skate the other day, and it definitely is the best Skateboarding game I have played, ever.

I don't know about any of you but I get a sense of fulfillment when I land a great looking combo, like for instance yesterday I had to do this pro challenge where you have to manual over two boxes, which took me a couple of tries but eventually I got it.

I was in a state of euphoria just because of something as simple as landing a technical trick.

Where as in Tony Hawks it took basically no skills at all to land a 200 000 point combo, while doing tricks like a one footed blunt slide to 540 flip to manual etc. which was really cool at the time until I started playing Skate.

I think Skate just started revolutionizing the console based extreme sports market, I think this move from EA creating a realistic skating game(Which is really hard at first) was risky but it paid off outselling Tony Hawks, if I am not mistaken 3 to 1 that is magnificent for the first release of a game in a specific genre competing against competitors who have monopolized the market for so long.

FYI
I am not bad mouthing Tony Hawks as it stood it's ground for more than a decade as the best Skateboarding game, but times have changed and they will have to step it up a notch if they want to remain viable competitors in the extreme games market maybe even adopt a new intuitive way of doing tricks