My First Review-Skate

Alright this is my first review on the game Skate. This was a highly anticipated game for me being the Tony Hawk series seemed to becoming more and more bland as time went on and didn't really focus on the aspect of true skating anymore. I seen the demo had come up on xbox live downloaded it and could not put it down. Even though it had only one area to skate in at the time the physics were already great and the realization of a true world was there. A couple weeks later I purchased the game and was shocked about the massive world you could skate in. Not much was changed from the world so it was more so like skating an actual city. The controls were very fluent and responsive. The people were amazingly detailed and the way to move up in the ranks of the game was nicely crafted. I give this game a 4.5 shy away from a 5 being the fact that I wish you could at least get off your board. Some challenges required to jump a set of stairs and you could not get off your board to do so you had to take a longer way around. Other then that the game was very impressive and I surely hope for a sequel.