skate.
It wasn't even close -- EA's awesome debut entry in the street skateboarding genre spun a 720 around the competition as the unanimous choice for the best sports game of 2007, garnering top honors on every single ballot. More astounding than its landslide victory, however, is the fact that this newbie somehow managed to unseat the Tony Hawk franchise as the coolest skating game on the planet. It injected new life into the genre with its innovative Flickit control scheme, making skating fun again by eschewing ridiculously huge jumps and impossible arcade physics in favor of a realistic approach that was simple to learn yet tough to master. Skate also upped the ante on online play with its convenient video editing and uploading. Spend a few minutes with this authentic, no-frills take on skating and you'll quickly see why this is how we choose to roll.
Posted: 18 Dec 2007
