[Official] Skate 2 - released!

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am i the only one who cares? lol

anyway i just played the demo and its a timed 5min demo but doing 'quest' thingys extends time. Its fantastic everything i expected and more! the bailing is really fun! and at the end of the demo there is a video and there seems to be a few megaramps! WOOHOO can't wait for the 23rd!

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Absolutely fantastic. They've fixed the grinds so the board does what you want, animations look more fluid, graphics better, music - ace as usual, new tricks are going to take time to master and the environments looks less bland. :D

Really can't wait. :)

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Does the demo need a gold account?

I'm back on Silver since the end of December. I think I have some 24 hour codes around somewhere though (Y)

I think so.

More and more demos are being open to Gold Members first before Silver can get their hands on it.

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The walking controls are pretty damn terrible and clunky to be honest. I thought they'd have worked on them more :/ Moving objects is just awkward!

The rest of the game is top notch though, I love all the licensed clothing and decks. Its awesome that they've made the clothes get dirty if you bail, and even the shoes begin to ware the more you flip! Brings back memories of all the shoes I used to go through :p

Can't wait to play online :)

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The walking controls are pretty damn terrible and clunky to be honest. I thought they'd have worked on them more :/

Aye, unfortunately they were only given a year and a half to finish it. Never mind will be fixed for skate 3 no doubt. :p

Quick vid showing off the tripod camera and a footplant.

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Aye, unfortunately they were only given a year and a half to finish it. Never mind will be fixed for skate 3 no doubt. :p

Quick vid showing off the tripod camera and a footplant.

Waw nice trick, I can barely manage a grind. I do find the game fun however only for the activities. On Tony Hawks I just used to go around just racking up massive points for no reason at all, while on this game I just don't find it fun free skating but that's maybe because I can't do anything cool yet :p

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Waw nice trick, I can barely manage a grind. I do find the game fun however only for the activities. On Tony Hawks I just used to go around just racking up massive points for no reason at all, while on this game I just don't find it fun free skating but that's maybe because I can't do anything cool yet :p

Heh it'll come with time, I remember when I got the demo I use to fall flat attempting to do nose grinds. Now I can do tre flips to smiths in a couple of attempts. The new moves have me perplexed though. It took me 12 attempts to nail that. Most of the time my characters foot would miss the rail and I'd put him face first into it instead. :p

I've found the ability to move objects much less of a gimmick than I imagined since you have much more freedom to put things where you'd like. I've found you can move the table half way up the ramp so you can ollie and attempt to plant over it or invert over it.

Apparently you can then upload your newly made spots and see if people can beat that score which is cool. :)

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I was really excited about the first Skate but was really disappointed, have always been a Tony Hawk fan but this game is so "slow" it makes it incredibly boring.

I'm more interested personally to see if they can get Tony Hawkes back on it's feet. Skate 1 just wasn't my cup of tea really although I've lost interest in TH too recently. It'd be nice if they didn't have to have the whole Jackass crew there every game and I think they could do with returning to basics and cutting alot of this slow motion or those manual kick flip things they introduced in the last two games out. Nowdays when I play TH's I feel like I have to manage 15 buttons at once.

But yeah, hopefully Skate forces the competition to pull their finger out.

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Hopefully, considering that EA axed "EA Black Box" which is the developer for NFS and Skate.

EA Black Box AXED

Apparently they are getting 'consolidated'. They were working in central Vancouver in one of the most expensive buildings in the area and EA don't think they are worth the rent so shoved them in with their other in house studios at the massive EA site.

I'm sure if Skate 2 sells well they will keep that team and fire the ones working on N4S.

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