i was never really paying any attention to this game, i mean it's EA going into competition with the tony hawk, though after tony hawk 13 against the grind (sarcasm) with nothing new i stopped playing them. anyways i was just checking out metacritic and noticed both the PS3 and 360 versions got very decent scores, an 88 and 89, not bad at all. has anyone here played it yet? i might have to check it out myself.

I only played the demo on a friend's 360. Really creative controls. The right stick you move down then quickly pop-up to Ollie, and Up then down for a Nollie. you move it left and right while doing an Ollie you'll pull off flip tricks. To manual you have to hold the stick in a certain sweet spot, no balance meter like THPS. Lot harder, which makes things more gratifying when you actually pull off big tricks. Air tricks seemed a little akward, but I didn't get to play it for very long, so I may of gotten use to them. You can also save replays and share them on Live. I remember I was mad as hell when THP4 dumped replays, so that's something I really would like.