First impressions on playing it today for 2 hours. Note pretty much the only xbox game I play is skate.
-The rider almost felt heavier on flat ground with spins and such. You can't spin as fast either. Misty 7's are now way harder to do...
-The new one footed stuff is really awesome.
-The city is meh. So far what i've skated, I like the original city better. This ones too busy, to many ramps floating around, too fake, and too much tony hawk.
-This brings me to my next point: this is clearly not near tony hawk yet, but it is closer than the original skate. Since skate was so good they could have only really added more, but seeing a ramp in the middle of a street spot thats already overcrouded is weak. The walking around isn't cool but it helps get up staircases, and the dragging of objects feels unnecessary. The environment is to crouded in some places, and too baren in others.
-However, the ramps belong in the skate parks, and thats where the movable objects belong too. The new skateparks fucking rule, with so many creative things.
-Many reused features/lines/areas.
-And I can't find the gliitch that let you land anything in skate 1 (left then right trigger), making landing huge jumps impossible 

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-Overall, less but better features would have been better, but don't get me wrong - the game still fucking rocks.