ESPN X Games: Skateboarding
ESPN X Games: Skateboardingby Konami
Platform: PlayStation2
ESRB Rating: Everyone
ASIN: B00005MOMI
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Features:
• Skateboarding action game
• Ride as one of 8 pro riders
• Compete for X Games gold, take to the streets, or ride in fantasy events
• Go head-to-head with 2-player split-screen mode
• Supports 1 to 2 players
Amazon.com Product Description: Ride as one of eight different pro riders, including Bob Burnquist, in ESPN X Games: Skateboarding. To get the gold, you'll have to prove you can master the same courses used in the 2000 ESPN X Games event in San Francisco. You can grind rails, hit ramps, or go for huge air in an amazing re-creation of the half-pipe from the 2000 games. Succeed at these challenges and you'll unlock secret stages, hidden characters, and special skateboards.
Before you go for the gold, you may want to test the three action stages set in the streets of New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, where riders maneuver around cars, grind rails, and stick tricks. Or you can start with the interactive tutorial to learn tricks and combos and get advice from the pros. Should you become bored with reality, you can thrash it out in a series of fantasy rides, choosing from a cruise ship ride, boarding around dinosaur bones in a museum, and more.
ESPN X Games: Skateboarding offers a two-player split-screen mode so you can go head-to-head with a friend. And when it comes to choosing your deck, you can ride one of 64 authentic skateboards that can be modified for speed and handling, or sport the equipment and sponsors of your pro rider. High-intensity tunes from such bands as Linkin Park, New Found Glory, Voodoo Glow Skulls, and more cover your ride.
Customer Reviews:
This game is sweet, August 28, 2002
Reviewer: Michelle from Brazil
Bob is hot, i want bob, bob is in this game, this game is hot, i want this game, i have this game, you dont, so go buy it. If you think bob is hot. Or if you just love skateboarding :)
x games rules, August 2, 2002
Reviewer: A 12-year old gamer
BEST EVER SKATER bettr than hawks,even better coz itz got burnquist
Stick with the tony hawk games, July 29, 2002
Reviewer: klimpage from somewhere
Hey if u want to play a good skateboarding game don't go with this game. There is only one special trick for each skater. extremely boring levels and not enough tricks to satisfy even a 4 year old. there are only a few skaters and this game gets extremely old. I rented it played for an hour then played tony hawk which i own. The goals are terrible. find checkpoints thats boring. the graphics are terrible. If you want to play a great skateboarding game play tony hawks pro skater 3. It has a much larger amount of tricks which you can pick and choose and more fun and exciting goals and much better graphics.
Xcellent, January 16, 2002
Reviewer: Timothy Liu from Fresh Meadows, NY USA
This game is the bomb. I got this game and it was raising the roof. You can use 8 different skateboarders. With the sponsors such as DC, Es, The NEW deal, World Industries, Bones and RDS. everyone should get this game. You can also do the real X-Games. Vert pipe and Park. Then in arcade mode. Just ride around and do grind, manuals and kickflips. The Passenger Liner is the best level to me. This game is just rocking.
Think about the money, December 19, 2001
Reviewer: Child of the corn from Hellsville, NM
This game is ok. If you like easy games of course. It took me about 4 hrs to beat the entire game. Tony hawk took me a little over a week the first time without the strat guide to beat it with 1 person. I think it's just better to get Tony Hawk 3. SAVE YOUR MONEY AND RENT IT!!!
alright game, November 27, 2001
Reviewer: clifford goldenberg from Berkeley, CA United States
ESOB X-games Skateboarding is surprisingly good, but overly arcade like physics and confirming camera angles keep it out of Tony's neighborhood. It's something you may not consider, but a smooth, wide panning camera is essential to the vert ramp experience. ESPN's topdown perspective cheats you out of admiring your incredible hang times... too bad. A few other thing bother me as well,. The lack of splitscreen play it uses a turn based system and the inability to link ground tricks put the game at a disadvantage. At the same time, you haven't experienced big air until you've tried this pup. No jokeon the vert ramps you literally float for 2-3 seconds a pop. Excessive? Yes. But it lets you trick it up like the Hawkman on steroids. Speaking of tricks, the interface is similar to THPS if not easier, in fact, you can button smash and still wrack up big scores. Special moves are trickier but look fantastic especially the christ-air and the more involved super move, the Mctwist. Another strong point is the Arcade License mode. It's great fun exploring the vast urban and suburban environments, collecting icons, knocking down fire hydrants and, in general, causing mayhem. Despite its flaws, this title has spunk. A decent selection of pipes, pro skaters, plus real and fantasy courses assure you'll be hooked for the long haul. Keep an open mind about this one. You may be surprised how much you like it.
nowhere near tony hawk, October 21, 2001
Reviewer: A gamer from denver, co
this game is okay.
pros:
colin mckay, one of the coolest guys in the world is on it.
some of the music is good.
3 minutes for a session instead of 2.
that's about it.
cons:
most of the music is horrible.
it gives that bad feel of gameplay, unlike the smoothness of tony hawk.
it is very hard to land tricks, because if you push the button the second you leave the ground, then do a different trick, he'll do one, wait 2 seconds, then do the other.
not very many characters.
it is hard to perform a lot of different tricks.
the controls are exactly opposite of everything you're used to on tony hawk.
you have to push ^ about every 10 seconds to get speed.
its a little too realistic. eg, on tony hawk, you can do a transfer 20 feet. on this game, it's hard to do a 3 foot transfer.
rent this only if you like to skateboard. do not buy.
Another Tony Hawk wannabe that doesn't deliver, October 4, 2001
Reviewer: Jester from San Jose, CA
I should've known this game would stink. I've played Grind Session, Thrasher, Andy Mac, & now this & they're all terrible!
First of all, the graphics aren't that good. Skaters with trademarks are recognizable (ie, Bob's glasses or Chad's afro) but the rest are impossible to tell apart. Kerry Getz looks like a bum in skate clothes! And all these "high definition" graphics cause the game to slow sporadically, which gets really irritating.
Second, the gameplay is infuriating. Half the times you try to do a grab trick you end up doing nothing. I'd sit there hitting the buttons numerous times while my skater simply did an ollie off the ramp. And good luck trying to spin anything. The only way for you to spin is to hit the switch stance button, which would be fine if your skater was consistent in their airs. But it's impossible to tell whether you're gonna do a 180 air or an air to fakie so that throws off your rotation. Balancing grinds on ledges & rails is ridiculously hard. You'll be holding the direction pad down for a good 3 seconds before you even notice that your skater is moving, but a lotta times you fall anyways.
Third, the game objectives aren't explained at all. In Tony Hawk, the objective says "Wallride the bell". In this game, it says "Crash license", but you hafta guess whether you're wallriding or knocking something over or just running into it; you spend half the time just figuring out what you're supposed to do.
Lastly, this may seem trivial to video gamers but it's important to skaters; the trick terminology is way off. This is a problem I've had with ESPN for a long time, even on their website they name tricks all wrong. They call a varial a backside kickflip! It's like none of the skaters got asked whether the game was right or not. What is a disaster slide? Skaters call 'em lipslides. And a pop heel? That's a heelflip varial. The K-grind (aka crooked grind) looks like a noseslide. Here's the clincher, they call a 360 flip a 360 kickflip. These are 2 completely separate moves, it's not even wrong naming. A 360 flip is when the board does a 360 popshuvit with a kickflip. A 360 kickflip is when you spin a 360 & do a kickflip.
I feel sorry for Bob Burnquist; he thought leaving Tony Hawk's game & getting his own would more lucrative for him. He couldn't have been more wrong. If you absolutely must play this game don't buy it, rent it. That's what I did & I'm still upset about it. But if you can hold out, wait for Hawk 3; the Tony Hawk series has yet to disappoint.
about as deep as a puddle, September 20, 2001
Reviewer: A gamer from San Carlos, CA USA
This game does lots of thing so-so and nothing great. There aren't many tricks, the levels don't have many good lines, the music is stinky... Beware: rent before buying.
Just go and buy it!, September 1, 2001
Reviewer: An 11-year old gamer from Katy, Tx, USA
I'm gonna say right off the bat, that my review is the most accurate. This is probably one of the greatest games ever made.
Something that sets it apart from other skateboarding games, is that the cast of characters is different from most games. In the Tony Hawk games you can expect all of the same skaters in the game like Tony Hawk, Bucky Lasek, Kareem Campbel, and Elissa Steemer. Not in ESPN X Games Skateboarding though. This game consists of Rick McCrank, Kerry Getz, Bob Burnquist, Lincon Ueda, and my personal favorite, Chad Fernandez.
The music is great as well. The selction is awesome. You can listen to music like, A Place For My Head, Jenny (867-5309), Fat Lip, Death of The Alphabet, and One More Time.
Last but not least, lots of people say taht this game's arsenal of tricks is very, very, very small. Don't listen to them. The tricks are great. You can do a McTwist, 900, Backfilp, Mute Pisser, Kickflip to Backside, Varial, kickfilp, heelflip, shove-it, 360 flip, Benihanna, Tail Grab, Board slide, Smith Grind, Bluntslide, tailslide, nosegrab, and japan airs.
So please trust me on this, there is no need whatsoever to wait until THPS 3.
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