As predicted the other day, the Skate 2 demo has been released onto the Xbox Live Marketplace in the last few days and so far, the general consensus is not good.
Bumbed left a comment on a previous Skate 2 posting to let us all know the following:
I just played the demo of the game today….and it fucking sucks in
comparison to Skate 1. It feels like it’s running on a completely new
engine, and the physics are much more “buggy”. The walking they added
is a joke, and was very poorly executed. Moving shit around is really
cool, but the mechanics of the game feel much different. Hitting rails
feels like a lot of control has been taken away from the player. The
physics simply don’t feel as good, and the game feels more
“arcade-like” Overall…disapointed with the new version of the game.
Fuck you EA.
I have to admit, looking at the footage of the game whilst in development, it did start to look more “arcade” like. EA seem to have taken a stylised approach to Skate It for the Wii – so why not Skate 2?
Also, the user comments about the demo and the lack of multiplayer options in the demo over at the Xbox360Fanyboy site are not too favorable:
It is a good sequel but the demo leaves much to be desired as there is
no open spaces for you to skate around like the skate 1 demo.
The skate 2 demo requires you to do challenges to gain more time to
freeskate. On the first try I rushed through it to get as much free
time as I wanted. Granted it was the 1st time playing the demo, I was
only able to get just under 8 min of freeskate time. I just wanted to learn the new tricks and free skate for a while to get
a feel for the game, not be forced to do career tasks on a demo.
I have not had a chance to get online to download the demo yet and will be getting it over the weekend.
Anyone want to share their thoughts on the demo?
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I’m anxious to see what the realistic players think of it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tlx2H9bSHtQ
http://vimeo.com/1044138
I think the realists may be let down from what I have seen.
There are a few demo gameplay clips on YouTube already and it looks ok to me – but may be different during actual play.
I will give it a good thrashing over the weekend and see what happens!