{"id":11944,"date":"2009-11-29T10:18:26","date_gmt":"2009-11-29T17:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=11944"},"modified":"2010-09-21T17:22:48","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T00:22:48","slug":"tony-hawk-ride-reviews-roll-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=11944","title":{"rendered":"Tony Hawk: Ride Reviews Roll In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0\" width=\"430\" height=\"250\" id=\"gb_player\" align=\"middle\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.giantbomb.com\/video\/video.swf\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"paramsURI=http%3A\/\/www.giantbomb.com\/video\/params\/1665\/?w=1\"><param name=\"videoURI\" value=\"http:\/\/media.giantbomb.com\/video\/vf_tonyhawkride_ql.flv\"><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.giantbomb.com\/video\/video.swf\" quality=\"high\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" width=\"430\" height=\"250\" name=\"gb_player\" align=\"middle\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" flashvars=\"paramsURI=http%3A\/\/www.giantbomb.com\/video\/params\/1665\/?w=1\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>From the video gamers perspective it seems that <strong>Tony Hawk: Ride<\/strong> has been getting some pretty mixed reviews. On <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.giantbomb.com\/tony-hawk-ride\/61-24712\/reviews\/\" target=\"_blank\">GiantBomb.com<\/a><\/strong> reviewer <strong>Jeff Gerstmann<\/strong> says that &#8220;Tony Hawk: RIDE&#8217;s shoddy hardware and ill-conceived software merge to form something completely abysmal,&#8221; and he goes on:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Attempting to make some sort of peripheral-based skateboarding game is a neat idea, and one that, if the peripheral were robust enough, could result in some sort of faux-skating experience that approximates the real thing in a way that&#8217;s accessible to non-skaters without being completely offensive to anyone who&#8217;s ever pulled an ollie. But everything about Tony Hawk: RIDE, from the game&#8217;s structure to the skateboard hardware itself, is an absolute mess that feels incapable of pleasing anyone, regardless of his or her skill level.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s more, but you should probably read it yourself, or <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=11944#more-11944\" target=\"_blank\">follow the jump<\/a><\/strong> for one more video clip (one that <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/tonyhawk\/status\/6174793932\" target=\"_blank\">Tony calls &#8220;a fair review<\/a><\/strong>&#8220;) of the game in action.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.giantbomb.com\/tony-hawk-ride\/61-24712\/reviews\/\" target=\"_blank\">GiantBomb<\/a><\/strong><strong> via <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/26228\/Critical_Reception_Activisions_Tony_Hawk_RIDE.php\" target=\"_blank\">Gamasutra<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/multiplayerblog.mtv.com\/2009\/11\/30\/tony-hawk-ride-review-oh-how-the-mighty-and-uncoordinated-have-fallen\/\" target=\"_blank\">MTV.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><br \/>\n<!--more--><object width=\"430\" height=\"275\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bqpDR4TB90c&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bqpDR4TB90c&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"430\" height=\"275\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the video gamers perspective it seems that Tony Hawk: Ride has been getting some pretty mixed reviews. On GiantBomb.com reviewer Jeff Gerstmann says that &#8220;Tony Hawk: RIDE&#8217;s shoddy hardware and ill-conceived software merge to form something completely abysmal,&#8221; and he goes on: Attempting to make some sort of peripheral-based skateboarding game is a neat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11944"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11944"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18014,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11944\/revisions\/18014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}