Skate

ive been spending alot of time with EA's Skate game for the 360 (or at least whenever jesse lets me come over and play) and am quite addicted. the new skate mechanics of using both analog sticks to control the tricks works so much better than the setup scheme of any Tony Hawk game. instead of skating mach one at all times, as in Tony Hawk, your skater is more ground in reality. no more 20 trick combos that lift u 40 feet in the air off of a four foot quarterpipe.

learning even "simple" tricks like 5-0 grinds and frontside flips take a gentle finger on the controller. combining tricks, like say....a nollie flip to nose manual to 180 out is a pretty advanced move, and after practicing it over and over, once landed, you get a feeling that you actually learned the trick.

the city you skate in is enormous with no load times for unlocked areas. of course theres the standard create your own skater options, but unfortunately, no create a skatepark in this first version of the game.

another fun thing about the game is the video editor. you can piece together your runs, change the camera angles, and edit your own video section. here, someone recreated Guy Mariano's entire Mouse part.