Actually the physics on skate 3 are fantastic if you set to hardcore, no more massive ollies out of boardslides and generally just much more direct control over the board. The new tricks like underflips fit naturally with the control scheme and can almost never be performed by accident, even the darkslides are handled with surprising deft.

Apart from that though, I agree, it’s getting really Tony Hawk. I mean ‘Hall of Meat’? Fuck off with that waste of space, time would have been better spent making bails more realistic and adding some really basic stuff like the skater actually standing up again instead of magically re-materialising on the board.

But still, play it on hardcore, play it how you want, it’s still the best skate franchise out there.

Now the clone is comming out “SKATE 3″ & the kids will love it. No improvement on the physic engine, absoloutly no improvment on frame rate, so PS3 owner will have spike lag while EA will told them “no such thing is true, there is no frame rate problem with our game”. Boring race, boring story line, stupid map like the querry, I mean WTF they were thinking, do you people go skate in pitt?! Retarded impossible huge jump, stupid competition where every stupid ass AI crash on you, WTF! have they ever watch a skate competition, do they know how it work? Apparently not. Stupid AI that will fuck up your line in freeride because WE CANT be alone. I could go on & on, they had a great thing with skate OG and they fucked it up to make it like Tony hawk franchise.

what i hate in skate 2 is that it’s almost impossible to jump on some thin ledges because the corners suck you into grind… One of the things i liked in skate1 was that you really have to hit the rail accurately to grind…..

what i also dislike is (I’m not sure if i’m right) but it feels like you can now ollie higher, and there’s less gravity… why to have moon gravity since with more speed you could ollie further anyway?

Getting into blunts/nose/tailslides is also bit ackward in skate2 because when you gently flick to rotate, you’ll get rotated 180. blah, i don’t know, maybe it’s just something to get used with, but somehow i liked the old more steady rotate better.

and wtf; half of the city is just a DOWNHILL with nothing on it. I really miss all the good spots from skate1.

Create-a-spot sucks, it’s only for creating a stupid trick-combo-challenge. I think it should’ve been just a regular “bookmark a spot” so that you can teleport to a spot you’ve created or you simply want to find fast next time… And it would be nice to be able to use replay editor when you get there for chist sake…

And instead of just some random rails hanging in random corners it would have been nice to get a menu where you can select some stuff and it gets drop in front of you from the sky…

All the online challenges are bullshit… the s.k.a.t.e mode should have more options like amount of letters, differing bs from fs. it would be great that when you skate with your friends online, you could check out what tricks they are doing, so a simple spectator mode in online play would mean alot.

EA also marketed skate2 telling it has a “better replay editor”… But the truth was i had to pay like 10$ more to get it… ruthless…

Well.. I guess i’ll just have to live with all this, because skate2 is still a good game. I just wish skate3 won’t be again closer to tony hawk series, becacuse when skate3 comes out, I won’t be buying it if so.

oh please call this shit downhill jam.. who cares about skating hills hills hills ??