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OK, here's a game title that's not really appeared on the mobile platform
for quite a long time, and generally just doesn't anyway.
A skateboarding game, that's actually all right. It has a kind of Tony Hawk's vibe going on.
Skateboard Party is Tony Hawks on a mobile platform
and actually done quite convincingly.
There's the arena,
move around
you've got your various skill buttons,
which will put you into the various skill modes if it's a contextualised thing you're
trying to jump over or grind on, or what have you.
When you go onto a pipe
you then have to do balance
so there's quite a lot of skill involved it's not the easiest thing to do
on a device like this, to try balancing.
Build-up speed, build-up tricks
I'm not very good with skating terms here so I'll apologise but you've got
the kick flip button there
that allows you to jump, you can go into a crouch jump, build-up more speed.
etcetera, grinding on there
and that will allow you to do hot stuff.
Please don't shout at me if you're a skater and I'm messing up all your terms.
I used to play Tony Hawks a fair bit
perhaps more for the game play rather than knowing much about skateboarding.
If you're into Tony Hawks games, if you're into skateboarding games or if
you just want to try out something a little bit different
because it is quite tricky, I have to say, probably if you are a Tony Hawks player
you'll pick it up much quicker than I have
but even so
there's a lot of challenge here, quite a few levels and it looks like the games may
expand a bit over time as well which would be nice,
so there will be more downloads etcetera to have with new levels
but yes, not a bad game, well worth a download.