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Review: Tony Hawk’s Downhill Jam – Wii

by on Dec.15, 2006, under The Rest

The potential of the Wiimote, as I will forever insist on calling it, is enormous, and for many excited developer puppies it will be overwhelming. While the new Monkey Ball wasted some opportunities with the crappy party games, the natural and instinctive use of a motion sensitive controller for the regular levels feels like this is how the series was always designed to be played. A skateboarding sim, however, does not.

This should be interesting. First Wii review, and I think lowest score in the world for the game.

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1 Comment for this entry

  • The_B
    December 15th, 2006 on 19:03

    I wouldn’t hide too much John.

    I’m not really surprised at this. I am a massive fan of the Tony Hawks series, having only missed Underground 1 – and when they announced this version of the game for Wii, I was very sceptical. Even more so when I saw the quality of Project 8.

    What is a terrible shame is that in some respects, the motivation should be applauded – the Wii is a very different console, and so different way of thinking in Wii ports of games should be encouraged. It’s just a shame when the execution turns out not as well as hoped.

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