Skate Jam - Pro Skateboarding

Has potential to be a good game but of course, as all mobile games are nowadays, this game is packed with micro-transactions and ads left and right making it an inauthentic and all around broken game. The controls only work about half the time, the balance meter seems to be completely random and only works correctly a very small percentage of the time. without “xp” to upgrade your character you will be disgustingly slow and bail on 80% of the grinds and manuals you attempt to do not to mention spins are nearly impossible, and you’ll get stuck bouncing back and forth between objects more often than not, on top of that when you finally think you’ve got the hang of things chances are the game will just break itself anyway. At one point I even had to reset my entire device because the game seemed to have broken it completely even after closing the program. Things are purposefully placed in areas that force you to play levels over and over and over again all while sitting through ads and pop ups and challenges to “unlock freeskate” are essentially unbeatable unless you invest an insane amount of time into the game or pay your way through which frankly, most people just don’t want to do. Has potential to be fun and ALMOST came close to feeling like a classic tony hawk game, but all of my nostalgia and whatever fun factor the game could have had was quickly stepped on my all of the issues, micro transactions, and clear money grabs that plague this game. Would not recommend unless many changes were made, which most likely won’t be.

This game definitely brings back memories of the early Tony Hawk games. This is one of the better skateboarding games I’ve seen in the App Store. I love the music too. Now there are some downsides. I hate that the bailing mechanics are not consistent. I would bail on the dumbest things. Also I find myself falling through the world especially when I’m near a wall. Then all of a sudden the screen fades and I’ve responded someplace else. Which that spawn animation kills my time especially if I hit a buggy area. I will say the thing I hate the most is the speed of the character, even though I’ve increased my stats. Also I hate that the player doesn’t automatically kickoff when you respawn. Hopefully these things get changed. Besides all the weird bugs and mechanics I really enjoy the game.

This game has so much potential and the things they can do with this game could be great, I’m also not impressed with the fact that the ripped the controls and basic functions from another game called skate party (plus the tutorial section is the first map you start with in skate party as well) But I’m willing to look past that because if these developers decide to update this game frequently with new content and fixes to bugs, and this is just something I’d like to see maybe tried in this game, I really enjoy the feel of the flick controls in the EA skate games, I’m not sure if EA owns that but what if we could have an option for controls, instead of buttons we could have the choice to use another stick that it could be used in a similar fashion in the EA skate games. And on the topic of controls they are not as terrible as the other reviews I’ve read. IF YOU’RE ON THE FENCE ON WETHER TO GET THIS GAME OR NOT I FO DEFINITELY ASK TO GIVE IT A GOOD TRY. I think that the controls are the main cause for people deleting or not downloading. They have a bit of a learning curve and once you can get over that it’s a fun game that is satisfying when landing tricks and linking up lines. Great game once it gets the bit of work it needs it’ll be even better and it’ll get that 5th star.