Disney Sports Skateboarding
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Disney Sports Skateboarding (also known as Disney All Star Sports: Skateboarding in Europe) is a 2002 skateboarding video game co-developed by Atelier Double and KCEO and published by Konami. It was released for the Nintendo GameCube and Game Boy Advance. It is the second game in the Disney Sports series.
Gameplay
The game includes eight worlds with skating-objectives and collectibles, more than 40 tricks, and five game modes, including two-player simultaneous play. In each zone, the player's main objective is to find and retrieve various checkpoints within a time limit. Players can choose from a variety of Disney characters, including: Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, Max Goof and Pete, and can customize their outfits and skateboards.
Why It's Disney Sports ROADKILL!
- Awful and horrendous controls. If you want to go forward, you need to push up on the analog stick. If you want to do a trick, you need to let go of the analog stick before pushing the X or Y button. You can only spin with the L and R buttons in their respective directions. You can only grind by pushing the B button.
- When you are trying to do a trick, sometimes it does a wrong trick.
- When you are trying to grind, most of the time it just wants to go wherever it wants.
- Mediocre graphics by GameCube standards.
- Despite the soundtrack being good, it reuses songs from Disney Sports Soccer, which is lazy, especially for a 2002 game.
- Poor physics that is almost on par with The Simpsons Skateboarding, to the point of making the game unplayable along with the horrendous controls.
- The game only has six levels, which makes the game extremely short. It can be finished in only two hours.
- The game doesn't give a reward after completing all the stages in the trial mode.
- The announcer will never shut up. Thankfully, you can mute his voice in the options menu.
- The camera is useless and atrocious.
- Some rides bump you, but the problem is that you can't see where it's coming from.
- Some tricks aren't named right.
- One of the missions in this game requires you to get every single crystal but there are over five hundred crystals, which makes the mission almost impossible!
- Uninspired levels design, that feel like a rip-off of Tony Hawk games, especially due to the structure.
- Speaking of the uninspired levels, the Game Boy Advance version feels like a rip-off of Tony Hawk games on the GBA, with the stage structure and even the graphics themself looking like they are ripped off from the Tony Hawk games.
- Tons of glitches.
- The checkpoints are very out of place. Even if you get all the checkpoints, you still have to get to the end before the timer runs out.
- The roster is smaller than Disney Sports Soccer, which is stupid considering Minnie Mouse is the only female character in this entire game.
- If you want to buy the game in complete including the box and the manual, it costs about $35.
- It takes seven blocks on the GameCube memory card which takes the same number of blocks as Super Mario Sunshine.
Redeeming Qualities
- After Disney's Extremely Goofy Skateboarding, this is the first Disney crossover game to feature Max Goof.
- Some animations can be funny.
- It still has a unique intro that is amazing to watch and is probably the only good thing about the game.
- The soundtrack is awesome, despite reusing songs from Disney Sports Soccer.
- You do have the option to mute the announcer's voice if it's getting on your nerves.
Reception
The game received mixed to negative reviews from gamers and critics alike. On Metacritic, it holds a rating of 36/100. IGN gave it a 3/10. The game is at a rating of 2.75 on GameFAQs. GameSpot gave it a 2.2/10.