{"id":4363,"date":"2009-01-21T12:11:31","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T20:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=4363"},"modified":"2009-01-21T21:15:22","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T05:15:22","slug":"gamers-loving-eas-skate-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=4363","title":{"rendered":"Gamers Loving EA&#8217;s Skate 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/skate2-shot.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/skate2-shot.jpg','popup','width=200,height=200,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/skate2-shot-tm.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Skate2 Shot\" \/><\/a>The reviews coming in from the video gaming world kind of make us want to break out the console and pick up a copy of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/skate.ea.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Skate 2<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Brian Rowe <\/strong>at <strong>Planet Xbox 360<\/strong> gives <strong>Skate 2<\/strong> a score of 9.1 out of 10, claiming that the title succeeds in areas that the Tony Hawk series never explored. &#8220;Once again, Skate 2 isn&#8217;t EA&#8217;s response to the stagnant Tony Hawk series,&#8221; he begins. &#8220;It&#8217;s the Tony Hawk destroyer, so long as you believe in working for your reward instead of button-mashing for instant gratification.&#8221; . . . Skate 2&#8217;s complex control scheme provides depth that other franchises lack. &#8220;Every board trick is mapped to a movement of the analog stick, with the shoulder buttons managing the myriad of grabs,&#8221; Rowe explains. &#8220;Forget about spinning ollies and blind grinds, because precision and flow are everything. A simple line like a heelflip-to-tailslide on a rail can quickly become an hour-long session of fumbling fingers and horrifying bails that&#8217;ll execute your manhood.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, we&#8217;re in.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/php-bin\/news_index.php?story=21945\" target=\"_blank\">Gamasutra.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reviews coming in from the video gaming world kind of make us want to break out the console and pick up a copy of Skate 2. Brian Rowe at Planet Xbox 360 gives Skate 2 a score of 9.1 out of 10, claiming that the title succeeds in areas that the Tony Hawk series [&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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4363"}],"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=4363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4364,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4363\/revisions\/4364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}