The problem is, is that I feel the franchise is suffering from Tony Hawks syndrome. With games like this, it gets difficult to improve upon them, and add new features which genuinely complement the game. Skate 2 was such an incredible game, that this just feels like an add-on pack, rather than a game. The challenges are different, but the create-a-brand aspect seems tacked-on, and a rather weak aspect.
I'm still having a lot of fun with it, and it's still the Skate we know and love, but I'm unsure as to whether it's made the same progress Skate 2 did over the original. I'll take some more drugs, and get cracking to bring you a verdict. Radical, dude.
I don't know if it's Black Box's fault or EA's, but the game comes out only 1 year after the original.
ReplyDeleteThat's were the 'Tony Hawks Syndrome' similarities come in to play.
A whole new city to skate in is great, the addition of co-op play is nice, they've ironed out the difficulty issues some people had by adding an easy mode, and made the off the board controls less "tank driving-esque".
All good.
However other than adding Darkslides theres not much difference to the actual gameplay (as great as that may already have been).
Personally I think if you loved Skate 1, 2 and either Skate It on Wii/ DS then get Skate 3, as at the least it's a great game and has done more than you're average yearly EA sports game would update with.
However if there's a Skate 4 out this time next year, and we're again making Tony Hawks Syndrome comparisons...then it may be time for people to start voting with there wallets, and let EA/ Black Box know that (we) gamers are not down with yearly minor updates, and want them to spend more time giving the games a labour of love.