Platform: Playstation 3
Time played: 40 minutes
Session fun rating: 7/10
Well, the game finally introduced it's new mode, Gymkhana. Basically, it's Tony Hawk's Pro Skater for cars. It starts out as a tutorial where each trick has it's own little event. There are jumps, crash targets, drift gates, donuts and spin zones. While I found these pretty fun on their own, the requirements for a platinum are a bit too high. I eventually accepted that I would not platinum every event.
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| Tony Hawk with an engine and a steering wheel |
It's fun but I really prefer straight up rally racing. It's a nice distraction but nothing more. It's also much easier to play the Gymkhana events in third person view than in first person.
Next I played a quick event on a muddy Finland rally track using Colin McRae's famous R4. Since PSN is back up (FINALLY!), I activated my VIP pass and was able to upload a video to Youtube. The video quality is ok at 480p but it actually took quite a bit of time to upload the video and I was even stuck on a queue for about a minute before it started uploading. I do like uploading my videos though so I'm sure I will keep doing that.
