I didn’t get on with the demo of the first Skate game, but I had a good time watching my brother-in-law play the full game a few weeks ago, so decided to try the demo of the new version.

(That was a horrible sentence. Sorry.)

I liked this version a lot more, mainly because I managed to do all the tricks Jason Lee asked me to do in the training session. I then went into the demo area and played around, trying (and mostly failing) to jump around and grind and make my own awesome lines.

A few years ago I would have bought this game and spent eight hours at a time trying to nail lines I’d made up, but I don’t play games in that way these ways. Still, it’s been ages since I played a new, good skateboarding game, so when this gets cheap enough I might well pick it up.