5/16/2023 0 Comments Vinesauce skatebird![]() Old Thrasher magazines are used as quarter pipes, juice boxes are there to grind on, staplers go together with straws, and anything else a tiny bird could get its hands on litters the environments. It is easy to pick up and play.Ĭruising around the different environments showcases more of the genius behind the game. RB will pull off a transfer, and the other trigger buttons will make your bird spin and spin. For example, the A button on my Xbox controller pops an ollie, X does a flip trick, Y grinds, and as you could expect, the left analog stick controls your bird, and the right one will control the camera (more on that later). (I mean this, my two daughters have even played.) And it feels eerily similar to the first skateboarding video game franchise we all truly fell in love with - Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater. Skatebird‘s controls make for a quick and seamless learning curve for all ages. These are just some of the bird-centric things you may quickly notice in Skatebird. However, it’s the familiar gameplay that kept me wanting to come back for more.įor starters, the controls are as simplistic as I would hope for from a new skateboarding video game. It’s also a bit unusual (in a good way) to see your bird use its beak to grab the board while pulling off a big 720 nose grab in the air. I’ve also used it to get specific items like tapes, letters, and snacks. This comes in handy when trying to extend a trick in the air, or quite honestly when trying to get to hard-to-reach areas on the map. By flapping your wings, your bird gets a competitive advantage that Rodney Mullen never had. This is because a bird has wings and can do things skateboarders cannot. The first and most obvious example of this is that your bird can double ollie at any time. While the gameplay in Skatebird isn’t perfect, it is precisely what you would expect from a game that features skateboarding birds. But now, with the game fully downloaded on my PC and a fresh patch installed (this fixes a lot of the camera issues), here is my review of Megan Fox’s skateboarding brainchild, Skatbird. Unfortunately, life got in the way and made writing a review on the game nearly impossible for the first few weeks. Skatebird was then delayed a month before finally releasing on PC, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch on September 16. I wrote an article earlier this year on the Skatebird beta, which increased my excitement even more. But the cherry on top was when I quickly learned that the game quite literally had a Tiny Hawk character. ![]() Since the first time I heard there would be a skateboarding video game that would incorporate most of the things I enjoyed about the Tony Hawk Pro Skater franchise - and actual small little birds - I was immediately hooked.
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