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Trickstyle | 
 enlarge | From: Acclaim
Category: Video Games
Buy Used: £7.44
Rating:  1 reviews
Platforms: Windows 95, Windows 98
Genre: sports-and-oudoors-games
Media: Video Game
Number Of Items: 1
Age: 3 - 18 years
EAN: 3455199419114
ASIN: B00004UA39
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Boxed Game with Jewel Case, its Inlays, Manual & Key Card...slight scuffs to case and to the jewel case, otherwise excellent condition
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
If TrickStyle lived up to the promises in its manual and its read-me files, you wouldn't need to be reading this review to find out whether or not you wanted the game--everyone with an interest in skate-stunt games would have been hailing TrickStyle as an instant classic. Heck, many racing fans would also have been singing the game's praises, because the innovation the game was supposed to deliver was a system for racing rocket-powered hoverboards that rewarded racers for succeeding with wicked stunt combinations instead of just speeding across the finish line first. Unfortunately, that's not how TrickStyle works. You do have to master the stunts to win the game, but that's only because the higher-powered hoverboards and the races themselves can't be unlocked until you complete training exercises that force you to perform all the stunts. When you get to the meat of the game--the blood-and-guts races--the stunts don't matter. You might as well not kick yourself into an "ollie", and you needn't bother with that 360-degree spin; they're just for show. The stunts won't necessarily slow you down, but the keystrokes required to execute them will distract you from the only thing that matters: winning the race the old-fashioned way. So what have you got? A hoverboard racing game with a physics model that seems to capture the way a rocket-powered antigravity board would fly--but does not really give the player an impression of all-out speed; a racing game with tracks that fly through absolutely gorgeous urban settings in Britain, the USA and Japan; and competent character animations for eight different racers who look different but perform their stunts and victory dances with the same motions. There are three good markets for this game. Market #1: you're a skating/stunt-board fanatic and you can put a bit more spin into the game than the designers provided. Market #2: you love beautiful graphics and want to admire some of the best urban landscapes from any game of the just-past millennium. Market #3: you just like racing and you don't mind jumping through hoops to get to your races. --Rob Heinsoo Pros: Cons: - Doesn't live up to its own design goals
- Doesn't allow you to flat-out race; the training sessions get in the way
- No multiplayer, although two players can compete head-to-head using two controllers and a split screen
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| Customer Reviews:
Trickstyle PC Review October 8, 2000
SteDaFish2k@iamgodlike.fsnet.co.uk (Stockton-On-Tees, England)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Acclaim obviously played Tony Hawk's Skateboarding a lot. An awful lot. They must of loved it, too, because this is almost identical. Let me elaborate.... You race around on a hovering skateboard and pull off tricks to earn points. Haven't we seen this all before? You better believe it. It's one thing to take a good game and make it better. It's something else entirely to take a good game and shamelessly rip it off. If your going to do it, do it right, right? It's not all doom and gloom, though. The graphics are rather nice and the gameplay is rather good. The tutorial is helpful and interactive. The sound effects are reasonable, although having said that the taunts are insultingly pathetic. The whole way through the game is trying to be funny, especially in the sorry excuse for a manual. It's so terribly unfunny I almost died laughing. Yet, despite all this, I was still strangely addicted from the moment it booted up. Why? Let's not forget that it is a poor clone of Tony Hawk's, one of the most entertaining and addictive games of all time. But let's face the facts. Why have cotton when you can have silk?
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