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Figured I'd put up some impressions from THP8 after playing it for a couple hours.
Career mode is somewhat story driven, but not as much as the last couple. Not something I really care about. Start out in a very small area with a few tasks. Do a few and another area opens up. Do a few more, and the first big part of the city will open up. Here you have the traditional goals like spell SKATE, hidden CD, Combo, etc. As you do them, you level up and start climbing in the rankings.
Gameplay wise, it's pretty much like the others. Fine with me as I like these games. The new trick mode is pretty cool. Animations are good. Graphics are the best yet and solid. Looks great.
The bad news is the framerate in some spots. It chugs in some spots for no apperant reason. Some spots where nothing is going on and no big graphics, it drops a bit in framerate. This does come up while playing from time to time. I'm not a pro at the game and it doesn't really bother me. If you've played the demo, I don't recall these framerate problems happening. And this is after putting a couple hours on the demo. I've landed a few over a quarter million point tricks on the demo, so I'm not terrible.
Would I buy it again after playing it a few hours? Sure, I'm having fun playing it. While the framerate does have some issues here and there, it's not really a big deal to me. I've read several places the framerate issue is much worse on the PS3. This was the reason I had held off initially until a sale ($39.99 at Target).
Career mode is somewhat story driven, but not as much as the last couple. Not something I really care about. Start out in a very small area with a few tasks. Do a few and another area opens up. Do a few more, and the first big part of the city will open up. Here you have the traditional goals like spell SKATE, hidden CD, Combo, etc. As you do them, you level up and start climbing in the rankings.
Gameplay wise, it's pretty much like the others. Fine with me as I like these games. The new trick mode is pretty cool. Animations are good. Graphics are the best yet and solid. Looks great.
The bad news is the framerate in some spots. It chugs in some spots for no apperant reason. Some spots where nothing is going on and no big graphics, it drops a bit in framerate. This does come up while playing from time to time. I'm not a pro at the game and it doesn't really bother me. If you've played the demo, I don't recall these framerate problems happening. And this is after putting a couple hours on the demo. I've landed a few over a quarter million point tricks on the demo, so I'm not terrible.
Would I buy it again after playing it a few hours? Sure, I'm having fun playing it. While the framerate does have some issues here and there, it's not really a big deal to me. I've read several places the framerate issue is much worse on the PS3. This was the reason I had held off initially until a sale ($39.99 at Target).
