While shallow, I could deal with it and try and have fun with, what really cemented my feelings and what became my biggest issue with the game was its camera.Ī good camera makes any experience decent and is seldom a talking point, but a bad camera can forever ruin a game. The most it tries to tap into being a bird is a double-jump.
It lacks creativity for a skateboarding game that replaces a human with a bird. The bird itself doesn’t seem to behave well either, as you can land nose-down and lose all your points without any way to prevent it (this happened a lot).
XBOX SKATEBIRD MANUALS
The only tricks not tried to them are the manuals and ability to transfer over a ramp, a far cry from the tricks you could do in other skateboarding titles. For instance, tricks are incredibly limited for the most part being tied only to the face buttons. None of my expectations were met, in fact they all fell short. There are a lot of issues I have with the gameplay of SkateBIRD, much of it was the expectations I had for it due to how far current or previous skateboarding games have pushed the genre and made a once revolutionary idea common place. It’s actually quite commendable how much work Glass Bottom Games have put into incorporating so many different birds I never knew of. Unfortunately, what customization has in quantity, it lacks in quality. Perhaps you want to play as a cockatiel with a top hat, sunglasses, and grey scarf? Or maybe a Sharp-shinned Hawk with a sleeping cap on its head wearing stunner shades, and a bowtie? There are tons of possibilities, with a wide array of birds, hats, capes, glasses, and skateboard options that allow you to style your bird however you want. While you aren’t doing missions, there are collectibles around the map that unlock accessories which lead us to the surprisingly extensive character editor.Īt any time during your play session, you can pause the game and change how your bird looks. In fact, a lot of missions devolve into ‘Do X trick at this location’, so you’ll be doing a lot of the same tricks just at different spots of the map. There are a lot of missions in a single skate park, and for the most part they aren’t very unique other than the context given.
Sometimes it’s trying to collect the trash around the human friends’ room or rack up a lot of points doing tricks. That is the adventure mode in a nutshell, each skate park has missions that progress the story. The adventure takes you across multiple ‘skate parks’, which just happen to be average day rooms or rooftops that happen to have ramps and grind rails made of everyday objects. You start as a bird trying to make your human friend happier but quickly learn of the problems plaguing him and start working to help him. However, what I played was a far cry from that, in fact I’d go to say it disappointed me in almost every way.Īside from its premise, what is SkateBIRD really about? Well, you play as a skateboarding bird living with your skateboarding bird friends in a house owned by your ‘big human friend’. SkateBird’s almost what you’d expect with a creative title like that, a skateboarding game except instead of people you play as a bird. It themes itself entirely around that gimmick and never let’s go. I thought I’d be going into a fun romp filled with unique challenges surrounding the concept of being a bird on a skateboard. Glass Bottom Games, if you’ve never heard of them, are the creators of Spartan Fist and Hot Tin Roof: The Cat That Wore a Fedora. It’s been a while since I played EA’s Skate series, so I was excited to see a new skateboarding game from indie developer Glass Bottom Games, the subject of today’s review, SkateBIRD.
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