Tony Hawks Ride Looks Terrible

[Minifig]

http://g4tv.com/games/ps3/61890/tony-hawk-ride/review/

http://xbox360.gamezone.com/gzreviews/r38120.htm <--Who are these people?

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http://g4tv.com/games/ps3/61890/tony-hawk-ride/review/

http://xbox360.gamezone.com/gzreviews/r38120.htm <--Who are these people?

People who attended Activisions 3 hour review event on Saturday and got to release their review early. In other words eat our food, drink our drink, then promise us and Tony Hawk a good review and you get to release it before everyone else.

Graphically the game looks solid. During the event, there were some minor clipping problems and a bug that had one skater going in circles in a timed event (contrary to the casual directed path) until an ollie broke the cycle.

[what]

^How could any amount of bribery make them come out with that? It's treason against all gamers.

[Minifig]

http://gameinformer.com/games/tony_hawk_ri.../18/review.aspx

As a skateboarder and as a gamer, Tony Hawk: Ride is a curious idea but a letdown in practice. The huge level of frustration is not worth the time it takes to master the awkward gameplay idiosyncrasies. Instead, it?s more tempting ? even as someone with experience ? to just spam the waggle movements for a passable high score. With the huge price tag and uncertain future of software support for the peripheral, Activision has one of the toughest sells in video games in a very long time.

Ouch.

[MikeChipshop Member]

Luckily my mate is head of games in HMV in London so at least we'll have a chance to play it and decide ourselves. Although i don't hold up high hopes for it being any good.

Anyone have any idea at what this will retail at (in ?UK), as a part time skateboard coach and skatepark builder i'm pretty sure i'll be damning this to hell!

[Syanide]

THPS 2/3/4 is where it's at, I still play them (#4 mostly) from time to time. R.I.P. Tony Hawk's skating games.

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Giantbomb Quick Look

I've been waiting for this ;)

[what]

Giantbomb Quick Look

I've been waiting for this ;)

This game looks like so much fun.

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Memories of the good times :(

(Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 ftw though)

Now we have this colossal fail :laugh:

[Slammers]

Being in love with skateboarding and all, this series almost offends me. The first 2 were so great and 3 was ok but this is just pathetic. No one wants to stand on a plank that's shaped like a deck, imo this game would be harder for anyone who has experience skating because they way you pull the tricks off are nothing like real life. I mean how weird will it feel if you've been doing kickflips every day of your life for the past 10 years and then you have to stand on this deck peripheral and do a completely different movement without actually jumping. It kinda just makes the whole point of the deck controller a waste of time, if people wanna play games they wanna use a controller, if they wanna skate then they will skate. This is only catering for people who are wowed by anything with a slight novelty factor.

My two sense anyway. EA's skate got as close to realistic skating as youd like in a videogame IMO.

edit: and lol at the .gif above me of the ollie off of uphill grass over a two meter high wall complete with a stupidly late 360flip, clipping and all.

[Minifig]

This game looks like so much fun.

Did you watch the same video I did?

The controls and everything looked hokey at best..

[MikeChipshop Member]

imo this game would be harder for anyone who has experience skating because they way you pull the tricks off are nothing like real life. I mean how weird will it feel if you've been doing kickflips every day of your life for the past 10 years and then you have to stand on this deck peripheral and do a completely different movement without actually jumping.

Amen my friend, i can see me busting the board and tv when i boot it straight through the screen absent-mindedly.

[jelli]

Memories of the good times :(

(Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 ftw though)

Now we have this colossal fail :laugh:

RIP :p

[jelli]

Giantbomb Quick Look

I've been waiting for this ;)

Loved the part towards the start.

"That's not the rail, still not the rail, nope not the rail."

Wow it does look pretty bad, but I wasn't expecting anything else anyway.

[Veedems Veteran]

I played the game (PS3 version). It's absolutely terrible. I felt like I had absolutely no control over what my character did. He just followed a line and that was it. Terrible experience.

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Did you watch the same video I did?

The controls and everything looked hokey at best..

Do I really need to put <sarcasm> tags in my posts to make it obvious? =/

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ftw :laugh:

Giantbomb have released their actual review now, 1/5.

[LingeringSoul]

I just finished reading the Giant Bomb review. That was pretty savage. From the videos, I knew they weren't going to store it very high, but 1/5 was surprising. Gerstmann clearly isn't afraid of angering Activision ;).

Maybe I should just plug my PS1 back in and play THPS2. Now that was a great game.

EDIT: The IGN Review is a little more... diplomatic. But still, a 5.0 from IGN is like a 1.0, more or less.

Edited November 21, 2009 by LingeringSoul

[Minifig]

EDIT: The IGN Review is a little more... diplomatic. But still, a 5.0 from IGN is like a 1.0, more or less.

I utterly loathe IGN, with a passion unmatched because I know they've been paid for good reviews in the past, but this review actually makes me have a fair bit of respect for them.

[DirtyLarry Veteran]

Gametrailers Video Review Is Up

Overall - 4.6

They give the gameplay a 3.2 :| :rofl:

The only reason it has a 4.6 is they gave the Presentation a 7 overall. If not for that it would have been even lower. Wow.

Although the argument could be made the series died a few games back, and I would really not argue this fact, this is truly the last nail in the coffin.

Goodbye Tony Hawk video games. You provided me with among some of my favorite video game experiences ever especially earlier on in the series (2 and 4 are and always will be true classics) so thanks for the memories, but I wish you knew when to say when and just go out gracefully, instead of truly embarrassing.

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Planet Xbox done a sly stealth change :rofl:

This review is not about nitpicking specific mechanics, it’s about the creation of something new and enjoyable; Tony Hawk: Ride brings a whole lot of fun to the rehashed video game market.

Changed to

This review is not for the hardcore gamer, it’s for kids and the casual gamer the looking for something new and enjoyable; Tony Hawk: RIDE brings a whole lot of fun to the rehashed video game market.

Remember they gave it 9/10

Oh well if there's one thing Ride done it's weed out the BS review sites you should ignore. Heck even IGN who's scale for reviews usually starts at 7 trashed it :laugh:

More GIF fun

edit: Some more good memories with the awesome PS startup sound even included :laugh: (I warn it's depressing watching this video then watching Ride)

Edited November 21, 2009 by Audioboxer

[Minifig]

Planet Xbox done a sly stealth change :rofl:

~Q-Snip~

Changed to

~Q-Snip~

Remember they gave it 9/10

Oh well if there's one thing Ride done it's weed out the BS review sites you should ignore. Heck even IGN who's scale for reviews usually starts at 7 trashed it :laugh:

Well if that isn't a sure fire sign that Planet XBox is a paid review source. :rofl:

[NienorGT]

Giantbomb Quick Look

I've been waiting for this ;)

I'm sooooo speechless..... :|:|:|:|:|

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lol

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http://themidlifewife.com/?p=471

[Minifig]

How much did they pay her to write such a crappy review?! Jebus.