After being held up for six days, EA's Skate demo has finally arrived on Xbox live, begging to be downloaded and obsessed over. We're just a tad bit obsessed with it ourselves, going as far as calling it "a spiritual experience." Will you reach gaming nirvana as well? Not unless you can achieve that state within thirty minutes of this timed demo.
Your thirty minutes in heaven takes place in the community center skate park in the suburbs and it's fully equipped to experience a good chunk of what's possible in Skate. After a brief tutorial of the flick-it controls, you'll be let loose on the park, free to do whatever you please.
What really makes this demo special is the ability to save and upload a movie using the saved films feature so please, feel free to share your creations with the rest of the class. As for PlayStation 3 owners, your demo will be arriving sometime soon as folks at EA have said that it's been completed, sent out and is now in Sony's hands.
Your thirty minutes in heaven takes place in the community center skate park in the suburbs and it's fully equipped to experience a good chunk of what's possible in Skate. After a brief tutorial of the flick-it controls, you'll be let loose on the park, free to do whatever you please.
What really makes this demo special is the ability to save and upload a movie using the saved films feature so please, feel free to share your creations with the rest of the class. As for PlayStation 3 owners, your demo will be arriving sometime soon as folks at EA have said that it's been completed, sent out and is now in Sony's hands.
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It better not be another crapy , with horrible framerate problems, port!
I know X360 GPU is stronger , but.... optimize please?
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Links please! I refuse to believe it
! Why does Dirt look better than the 360 version if the 360 is better? Like a previous poster said its just lazy developers, unlike Codemasters, that make the 360 "seem" more powerful!!!
360 development tools/environment + 1 year headstart > PS3 development tools/environment + 1 year late arrival
Dirt pS3 vs X360
http://gameplanets.blogspot.com/2007/08/dirt-ps3360-graphics-comparison.html
Some cuts - HDR, grass , etc.
Some fixes.
Considering nearly all ports to PS3 have FRAMERATE problems / GRAPHICS cuts
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=78963
www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=75856
www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=74502
RSX su**
It needs all help it can get from Cell to even compare to X360's GPU.
THPS < Skate. By far. I'm loving the realistic feel.
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i can't wait to see what comes out of the movie maker.i am sure we will see some spectacular creations coming even out of the demo.
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Anyone have an idea what's going on?
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Here is a tricklist for everyone to lazy to look it up...
http://www.ea.com/images/games/skate/v2/features/wallapaper/flickit_goofy_wallpaper.jpg
skate.reel isn't working yet, but who cares right now???
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I really want to play this.
(I'm still hoping for that Thrasher sequel by the way...)
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A Demo killed my 360!!
And let me be the first to say PWNED!!!
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I pulled this sweet vert trick on accident involving a coffin leg wrap around and a back flip thing. It looked awesome, and really smooth. Lost the footage thought 'cause the uploader is not working.
This game looks great, the animations are really dynamic feeling depending on what you do with the controls. The gameplay is genius.
What a breath of fresh air, There is nothing like this game on shelves right now. I am totally trading in a few of my games and picking this up new.
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the gameplay itself is fun though, but the camera could use a little more options, and the crash graphic lasts too long, it gets annoying when i'm trying to do a trick
also, i'm having a damn hard time doing the manuals challenge, i keep going into a full ollie 95% of the time, and even when i can do a manual, then ollie from it, I can't land on just one wheel, even if my analog is all the way back. wtf
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much, much better than THPS especially if you ever skated b4.
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All in all, this game is really awesome. The controls are going to take some getting used to because they're so foreign for anyone who's played THPS since it's debut. But it's definitely more realistic, and thus rewarding. I love it.
I can see how some people will play it for 10 minutes, get pissed at the controls, and pass it off as a bad game. But you've got to give it some time to learn the controls. It's quite challenging!