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Skate on 360

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Skate is a Sporting game available on the 360.

Skate is a Sporting game. Sports games recreate a wide variety of real life competitive activities. Depending on the sport, these will either have an action or strategy focus. Popular sports games are often released on an annual basis, each year the game receives new player rosters and game improvements.

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Returning Gamer review Mon, 19 Jan 2009

Back in the mid 90's there was a skateboarding phenomenon, a video game that was embraced by not only gamers, but skaters too. It managed to pull off that most difficult of video gaming tricks, to provide an experience that stood alongside its real world equivalent and still seem authentic. The very people who would usual laugh and walk away from try hard skate boarding games, were actually hooked in and became a large part of the games demographic.

Whether this was the Tony Hawk name, that at the time cost Activision a pretty penny, or the workings of the game itself, still remain to be seen. Most likely these two aspects combined to give the game its knowledgeable and believable look and feel.
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