Tony Hawk Ride, plastic skateboard, revealed

Oh please….

;_;

Not Tony. FFS… not TONY!!!

I bet it costs more than a skateboard.

I don’t know about that. Skateboards can be pretty expensive can’t they?

It just feels like such a desperate and failed attempt at stealing SKATEs thunder.

How will that thing even work? It looks lethal. Am I supposed to do real ollies on it, what with the tails and all?

Can’t wait for someone who lives in a flat above me to own this.

I’d say this is a kind of a Fingerboard, how would you press those buttons on the side while you skating?
It’s interesting anyway.

Aha. Interesting. If it’s no bigger than a standard joypad then I’m intrigued.

I think they’re going for true authenticity. You sit on the controller, spit, cuss and drink beer.

It’s like a regular board, in size. You stand on it. You push the board with your other foot, where a sensor on the side picks up that motion. No hands, except for grabs.
You ollie by moving your weight to raise the front of the board.
If you physically twist with the board, while the character’s in the air, then you can do rotation tricks.

I watched the GTTV ep, which explains a lot of this, and I REALLY don’t like the art style one little bit. It’s so blindingly bright, and saturated – at times it looks like an ill-simplified Wii game.

There’s no real impediment to the skateboarding, through having to change direction or really avoid obstacles, so I wonder if it will play bland, in reality. It looks more to be designed for long, flowing lines, than SKATE’s moving of objects, and trying to find locations where it’s possible to skate. It’s much more open than that.

I don’t know about this. It would make for a fantastic peripheral to support a snowboard game, though. Because, in those, there’s no urban environment to have to clatter around, just your player and the mountain.

Oh Tony.

If this guy had more sense, he’d have moved to sponsor up with E.A. a long time ago.