Tokyo Game Show / Tony Hawk Ride review

This week in the wired online website I read about the Tokyo game show. I found it interesting because me being a 17 year old boy likes gamming. The Tokyo game show grosed about 1-2 million people. New games such as Final Fantasy XIII, Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep, PixelJunk Shooter for PS3 and PixelJunk Monsters PSP, Bayonetta for the Playstaiton 3, Puyo Puyo for the Wii and the PSP, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker for the PSP, Left 4 Dead 2 on Xbox 360, Silent Hill: Shattered Memories for the Wii, PS2 and PSP. Theres one big thing here that the ratio to Microsoft Xbox to Sony Playstation 3 is 1:5 of the main games shown in the article, same with Nintendo Wii which is a company made based in Japan hence, you would think that Nintendo will want to gross its home crowd of Japan with all of its new products. Recently Playstation has began its new campaign of the Playstaion Slim. This is a Playstaion 3 or PS3 that is slim because the old PS3 was considered bulky and not very “stylish” while the new PS3 slim is ”stylish” small and has all the original features at a lower price. Also the PSP has had a revamp. The original PSP was bulky and long which was hard to fit into your pocket but at the same time super cool because you could play your Playstation games on the go which, and watch Movies and listen to music, this was the first original idea to compete against the old school gaming machine the Game Boy and its new touch screen counterpart the Nintendo DS. The new PSP or Playstation Portable is different from its older brother because it has a slide mechanism, like a side kick you slide it and bam u can play and it has a new button system and more accurate analog system. So the smart marketing campaign had its effect on the Tokyo Game Show 2009 because the PS3 and PSP made its big appetence with tons of new games that the people could play with.

On a smaller note, this weekend I went to Freestyle.ch. In the Freestyle.ch ground there was the Xbox stand and in it was the new Ride game by Tony Hawk. Tony Hawk being a skateboarded fitted in quite adequately with its surroundings. The game is a new rival to the Wii because instead of playing with an controller like most other Xbox and PS3 games, in this you get a skateboard that you “skate” with. IT was a lot of fun, I really liked the idea and concept but doing the tricks and grabs and grinding is hard, and you need to have really good body coordination. An other unique thing is that you can change the stance, so you can ride goofy which is left foot front or you can ride regular. I really like the idea and the concept but the levels ( I played 3) were too child like. Some levels have the teenager feel and others are too child like. FinallyThey have freestyle.ch has one of the Xbox 360 Switzerland levels you can buy via your Xbox Live account.