Skate FTW.

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Skating, come on, this is so late 90's, couldnt care less.

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Based on the demos, skate tramples all over TH.

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i'm not going to vote as i haven't played full versions of either game, but skate seems gimmicky to me. the control schemes are interesting, but they didn't translate into fun - IMO

and tony hawk has gone downhill in recent iterations, so i can only hope it's gotten good/better again.. but who knows

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@ Piers Beaumont,

War games, that's so 2000BC
Sports games, that's so 1900s
Driving games, that's so 1908

Please, because people did it in the 90's, its no longer fun?

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definitely Skate.. solely based on the demos.
however - the last few tony hawk games... - actually since #3 - its gone downhill.. and not in a good way imo.

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For those who have only tried the skate demo, I would recommend you check-out the full thing. IMO it's a lot better than Tony Hawk because you feel like your actually accomplishing something when you pull off cool tricks and find new areas. I've skated around the whole city just looking for cool areas to setup jumps and grind combinations. The replay editor is really nicely done too.

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I played both demos and gave them both a chance. Ive bought every tony hawk game since the first to project 8. But Skate is just better. I didnt like the THPG demo at all. In fact i didnt even like it as much as P8. It felt more like american wasteland. The skaters knees dont even bend when the land a big jump. WTF? Skate wins!

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Skate all the way...although you can't really compare the two games simply because they involve skateboarding. Reviews for Madden games don't and shouldn't draw comparisons to the latest iteration of NFL Blitz. These parrallels can't be drawn for the simple fact that although they are both games based on the same sport each is different type of game; Madden is a more or less a sim, Blitz is an arcade style game. Madden focuses on the core elements of football play book manuevers and timing where Blitz is all about powerups, turbo and other unrealistic, altough entertaining elements.
The same goes for the Skate vs. Hawk issue. Skate, while it does borrow a few cups of sugar from Hawk in terms of mission types (i.e. score x amount of points in y minutes, line/combo missions etc.), approaches skating as a whole from the angle of a sim. Its gameplay is technical at heart with a focus on physics (albiet a wonky engine for physics, for a first iteration of a series it holds its own just fine); timing, speed, height of ollie etc are driving forces behind pulling off lines. Hawk's approach to gameplay is more of an arade style; simple, button based commands which yield astronomically high points if you can master the "nail the trick" minigame and revert into a manual after a bowl trick. Grinding a rollercoaster or around an entire city for 20 minutes straight are also elements which land this game in the realm of arcade games.

Basically the issue boils down to whether you prefer arcade or sim style games. If you're more into games which attempt to approach an experience from a more realistic angle then you're more apt to dig skate (if skating games are your thing, which they probably are if you're reading the comments for this post). You like the idea of riding on rollercoasters with a skateboard or defying gravity and physics in general? Hawk it up then.

Personally i dig skate because the sim approach brings a new element to a genre that has been dominated by the arcade style since the days of Skate or die and 720 degrees. Skate is a fresh and genuinely enjoyable experience and a welcome diversion from the tried and true arcade ways of the tony hawk series.

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Skate is terrible, and there's no way in hell you should be supporting EA as a gamer.

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After playing both...skate.

THPS should have gone EXTREAMLY arcady/crazy.

I mean like jumping over planets with a dog with 76 legs and singing Journey songs.

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Proving Ground, because TH games allow you to do stuff I could never even get close to doing IRL, and instead of playing Skate, I will actually go out and skate with a REAL SKATEBOARD, and nail that kickflip with real people around me.

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Skate! Tony Hawk needs to retire from the gaming biz.

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That is pretty extreme

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Skate is where it's at. Tony Hawk's skateboarding isnt even skateboarding anymore,it's just Jackass the video game (with skateboard).

Skate FTW.

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Tony Hawk jumped the shark with the underground series. Their attempts to make the game more appealing to a younger audience split their core followers. They tried to win old school Tony fans back with Project 8, but it was too little too late.

I agree with post one, SKATE FTW.

I hope to see more. Although Skate was a new IP, it had too many game play issues that angered me. Things that the Tony series solved over the years.

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I love skating and love skate games. EA's Skate is excellent! Controls are so cool. Now if I could only get back to it. Damn Halo 3. Want Orange Box too and COD4 is around the corner. Damn gaming industry.

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Proving Ground is for Tony Hawk fans, skate. is for skaters. I favor the latter. I think the TH series has been doing nothing but going downhill since 2x anyway.

SG

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Skate by a landslide.

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Omg there is no competition between skate and TH if you think TH is good take a sword and kill yourself cause something is wrong with you.



I AM NOT KIDDING

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