Yesterday Tony Hawk invited a group of us to his offices in San Diego to check out his new game peripheral. Here’s my takeaway from the day.
- The peripheral is well thought out, according to Kevin Staab it was designed by the same folks as the iPod. I believe that, it’s stunning. It looks just like a skateboard deck but it has sensors everywhere.
- You can do tricks with said board, unfortunately I do not know the name of the tricks, an ollie is basic, I suck at ollies.
- You can grip the sides of the board and it will sense it, the rider will appear to be gripping the board as well.
- Moms who grip the sides of the board (deck… whatever) sometimes lose their balance and fall off the deck
- There are many levels of this, although it was clearly a press day, and everyone was on their best behavior the 40+ year old skaters were having a lot of fun too
The game will be released November 17th, I have a suspicion that they’ll sell out before X-Mas. I’d recommend moving fast, your kids will want this. I’m willing to bet that this will be the sell out toy of the Holiday Gift Season
It’s good on all platforms: Wii (you can play as Tony, his friends, or a Mii), Playstation 3, and XBox360
Hey, you did it! Cool.
I’ve got to get my butt back on my wee, oops my wii. Will check out Tony’s game.
Now this is something I am going to have to snatch up!! Have been thinking about what in the world I was going to get my spoiled boys for xmas – and this is perfect!! They are HUGE Tony Hawk fans :) LOL
what’s the price look like on this?
Rad. ;D