Review: Skater XL (Steam)

Experience unparalleled board control and responsiveness while you skate iconic real-world skate spots. This is the evolution of skateboarding gameplay. With Independent Foot Control and unique physics-based gameplay, skate gamers finally have the expressive controls they have always dreamed.

Pros:

• Nice graphics.
• 7969mb Download size.
• Controller support.
• Graphics-fullscreen, resolution, v-sync, and graphics quality preset.
• Optional repayable tutorial.
• Skateboarding gameplay.
• Controls–doesn’t use traditional animations as each stick controls your feet causing independent and unique animations.
• Full physics game at work.
• Spawn point-can set a spawn point wherever you want and press a button to instantly teleport there.
• Free roam maps.
• Challenges-each map has a list of its own challenges for you to do.
• Starting point-alongside spawn points, you can at anytime press a button and move anywhere in the level and drop-in.
• Controller icon onscreen showing inputs-optional.
• A handful of famous skaters (Tiago Lemos/Tom Asta/Brandon Westgate/Evan Smith) or you can choose a default male or female model and choose clothing.
• Replay editor-at anytime press the back button to bring up the last few seconds of a session and record footage along with options like camera placement and effects.
• A robust list of moves to pull off.
• Play how and where you want.
• Ragdoll physics in the game.
• Stance-regular or goofy.
• Five maps-Easy day high school, The big ramp, Downtown Los Angeles, Californa skatepark, and West LA courthouse.
• Click a challenge and you get a ghost guide to show what to do.
• Modsany people have made mods and they are awesome.
• Total freedom.

Cons:

• No multiplayer.
• Music is not good and doesn’t have a player to change songs or many genres.
• No reason to do the challenges.
• Challenges are broken, you can do many if not all of them on flat ground and nowhere near the obstacles it says you need.
• No quit option instead you have to press escape then shut it down that way.
• No Steam achievements.
• Can’t rebind controls.
• No built-in mod support or tools for playing mods.
• Cold open.
• Only a handful of locations.
• No single player type mode, just a load of challenges which are just a case of doing this over and that move.
• The learning curve with the controls.
• No leaderboard support.
• Balancing and grinding have no aids to help in judging how balanced you are.