SKATE vs Tony Hawk: Comparison
- Posted August 7th, 2007 at 15:30 EDT by
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For almost a decade Neversoft and Activision have monopolized the skateboarding genre with their Tony Hawk series. However this holiday season things may change as EA Blackbox steps up to the plate and releases their new IP, SKATE. Before we move on to the visual comparison of the games, here is a brief overview of what each title provides.
Skate
- Record, edit, save, and share your skate clips with SKATE's film editor.
- "Flickit" controls...use the thumb sticks to flip and turn your board.
- EA Blackbox has licensed 19 pro skateboarders.
- Total of 45 songs on the soundtrack.
- Read PSU's Hands On Preview with SKATE.
Tony Hawk's Proving Ground
- Nail the Trick, Nail the Grab, and Nail the manual.
- Full Featured Video Editor and ability to share with friends.
- Create-a-Park feature has been confirmed to return with over 400 objects.
- So far... 15 skaters have been confirmed.
- 5 songs confirmed for soundtrack.
Now onto the best part. The visual comparison. Let us know what you think by posting your comments in our forums or in the comment box below.
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NightWing007 |
rllingstnes102- 3:39pm BST - August 7th, 2007
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its sounds that SKATE might be better but Hawk does have the create your own skate park. Both games look great but its a little hard to compare the visuals, only cause Hawk's pictures are more bleak and darker while SKATE's pictures are more sunny and brighter.
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mystik4l06 |
mystikal06- 3:45pm BST - August 7th, 2007
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i agree with nightwing but yet u can see that tony hawks character details are much more out there then skate...but who knows maybe the lighting makes it seem otherwise
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JD-82 |
JD-82- 4:06pm BST - August 7th, 2007
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Both have great features going for them...THPG has the three types of skaters as well...the rigger (can modify the playing area to make more tricking options available) looks cool but SKATE seems more on the actual physics of skateboarding so the game should be more realistic (no 70 foot acid drops for example) probably gonna grab 'em both...
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PS3-The Ultimate Machine
- 4:14pm BST - August 7th, 2007
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I'd have to say that SKATE looks better,and NightWing007 you are right lighting does make a difference....atleast to me it does.And by the way what is up with THPG,is it the skateboarding underworld or something?
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RagingStorm |
RagingStormX- 6:19pm BST - August 7th, 2007
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I think I am gonna give Skate a try first....TH has alot of making up to do before I buy another in that series.
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smallvillefreak
- 7:31pm BST - August 7th, 2007
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cowman, you do realize that the entire foundation of skate is stolen from the Tony Hawk series. Don't start calling Tony Hawk a thief, when they created the genre. Such idiots make such stupid comments. Almost if not all innovation for these games came from the tony hawk series. You obviously haven't been playing since tony hawk's pro skater. They've added all of these cool things. And unless you were actually in the development process for both games you don't know who thought up video editing an pics first. The manual, the revert, create-a-skater, park editor, videos, skitching, getting off the board, and so many other game changing aspects started with tony hawk. of course skate saw all the money they were making and said, let's do it too. Besides, they've done all the work for skate. The flick tricks with the analog sticks, that's nail the trick from tony hawk's project 8!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please, don't talk about what yo don't know!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -
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SilverSl33K
- 9:04pm BST - August 7th, 2007
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I think that if you wanna play a sport game that will simulate the action instead of just going out and learning how to skate and enjoy the real adreneline rush from the 20 foot gap, atleast i play video games for shooters and racing simulations and amaizing rpgs,you know why? because i cant go up to people in real life and rip them out of their car and cap them in the head while running over seniors walking innocently down the sidewalk....And i cant live in another dimension were physics are the same or go back and time and wield a Balrog Blade so keep playing your sport games that never change because sports unfortunitly have this thing called rules and regulations....
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songyiter03
- 11:38pm BST - August 7th, 2007
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i think that there almost a tie, but alot of people say lighting makes a difference and there right. The skaters look like from the same game but im not sure if you can compare the backgrounds because both of them have different themse going for them. Skate does sound like it does have pretty cool stuff with the 45 song soundtrack.. and with tony hawks having only 5 songs... skate has the ups on that one. I have been a tony hawk fan all the way back to the origional playstation so Skate will have to out do alot to take me away from that.
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ReFleX62
- 3:45am BST - August 8th, 2007
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Honestly the tonyhawk series needs to die... been making expansion packs the past 40 50 games ... I will be buying skate if it comes down to one of these ... if skate gets bad reviews i probly wont get either... IMO Skate looks better to.. just look at the sky, plants, and textures... The best texture i see in tonyhawk is the bricks lmao...
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gamewaffle
- 1:15am BST - August 18th, 2007
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i got it! thpg looks like thps4 while skate looks like american wasteland! oh, wait. thats gonna start an argument of some sort. well, sorry.
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holymoosebomb
- 10:59pm BST - August 28th, 2007
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Smallvillefreak, I hope you know that the idea for the skate game has been out for a long time. Infact, the flick stick gameplay was announced before nail the trick!! Hmm, so all Tony Hawk had to do was rush in a game with a stolen, watered down versoin of it and hope people like you believe skate stole it! WOW, that sounds just like Project 8!! AMAZING!!!
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CfeverS |
sykesc- 10:49pm GMT - November 6th, 2007
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I think that they are both completely different styles of skate games. If you are looking for a more realistic approach then skate is definately the way to go. You will also feel a lot more rewarded when you pull something awesome off while in Tony hawk you have the ability to do things no one could EVER possibly do. Both are great games but I'm definately leaning towards the realistic side. It's something new, unlike THPS which has only added a few features to its simple controls over the past 10 years.
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