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Having effortlessly broken Tony Hawk’s stranglehold on the genre last year, it’s now skateboard sequel time.
Wisely electing not to stray far from the original, the beauty here is in the detail.
Almost everything you encounter can be incorporated into a stunt and a rather groovy playback lets you edit ‘film’ of your moves from a variety of perspectives…Â More info
…had a severe sense of d?j? vu after first playing Snowboard Riot on Wii. Shushing through this downloadable title, it dawned on me: this is just a clone of Snowboard Kids, but with hipster characters instead of the oversized anime boarders that were used in Atlus’ previous designs. You don’t get much in this ten dollar purchase: four uncreative slopes with absolutely no single player progression. Its focus is more on the pick-up-and-play racing, but with very little at stake (and with some of the most obnoxious rubberband AI routines ever), there’s not much draw in Hudson’s competitive design.
Snowboard Riot isn’t so much a snowboarding game as it is a racing game on snow…Â More info…
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Touchgrind is a skateboarding simulation from developers Illusion Labs. One of the more popular skateboarding games on the iPhone, Touchgrind eschews the exaggerated physics and personality-driven features of mainstream skateboarding games by focusing on realistic physics and delicate manipulation of the touchscreen. Extremely challenging, highly addictive, and taking full advantage of the iPhone’s touchscreen makes this game a power player on the application market… More info…