Looks awfully familiar… 6 Screenshots of the upcoming Wii game: Skate City Heroes.
GamesRadar writes: "For anyone who's find it awkward playing skating games, Skate City Heroes' accessibility will seem like a breath of fresh air, but once you get over the initial joy of being able to perform most of these moves, you'll soon wonder why on Earth you're bothering. We'd rather walk".
WP writes: "The wild success of Wii Fit not only showed game publishers and developers that people were willing to have a video game encourage them to exercise, but it also showed them that there is a huge market of people who are interested in using the Wii Balance Board if/when their fascination with the Nintendo-produced game would expire. Aside from We Ski, however, no one was really developed for the new peripheral. It wasn't until the prior E3, when Shaun White Snowboarding: Road Trip was demoed for the press, that developers finally started announcing plans to develop for the Wii Balance Board. Naturally, the initial wave of titles that supported the board were all exercise-related. Some publishers, however, followed in the footsteps of Ubisoft and made the board a new controller for extreme sports games. Zoo Games is one of those publishers, and with their latest title, Skate City Heroes, they try to use both the board and the Wiimote/Nunchuk combination to give the player a more involving control experience. The result is a game that isn't much of a looker but is very fun to play."
This game could have been a lot better and made a "big splash" as it is one of the first games that really uses the Wii Balance Board as a skateboard. This really would have fleshed out the genre and made it more addictive and true to life. Unfortunately the controls were not ironed out enough, which makes the game almost impossible to play with the balance board. Even the motion controls are not very good. Hopefully the next version will iron out these issues as this could be a really great "younger-gamer friendly" skateboarding series. The game as it is now is best left as a last option rental.
Gameplay 4.2
Graphics 6.5
Sound 6.4
Difficulty Medium
Concept 5.1
Multiplayer 6.1
Overall 5.2
