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Your skateboarder approaches the ramp, hits it at the perfect angle and catches some phat and wicked air, perfectly rendered, before crashing out in a disturbing and amusingly realistic manner, with twisted legs and all. Great fun! Anyway, that's Thrasher: Skate and Destroy, coming out very soon, along with Tony Hawk's Pro Skater. If you can't wait until then, you can buy 3Xtreme, but really, what's the point? You get to guide your pixellated skateboarder, BMXer or rollerblader round different courses, doing the odd stunt, and more likely than not getting bored and putting on a decent racer instead. It doesn't offer the gameplay and options necessary to be a good racing game, nor the abundance of moves that would've made it a good skateboarding/stunt game. On top of that, it looks poor and the animation is terrible. Not rad, just bad.
Where's the shotguns? Where's the mad car races and police chases? Where's the violence and killing and all the other things that make games fun? It's a game about horses? Crikey! In general, the Future Gamer team, not being young girls, see horses as being good for betting on, or turning into glue, but not for grooming, feeding, mucking out and jumping over hedges. But that's exactly what you've got to do here, and in a surreal way you can get quite into it. There's a multiplayer option and a single player game, split into looking after your four legged friend and then using the beastie in competitions. These are surprisingly difficult and are well animated too. Despite this, it's still a horse riding game - when your mates arrive, you'll get embarrassed and pretend you were playing Quake instead.
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