Combine the many tricks and styles of the extreme sport, inline skating, with a Tony Hawk style system, complete with objectives and huge arenas, and you have Aggressive Inline. Progress through the career mode, where you must complete objectives (such as grind a certain object(s) to jump over large gaps and gain points) to open up further arenas, which there are 7 in all, and once your bored with them, you can make your own in the park editor. The game doesn't use a hard time limit but the so-called "juice meter": it fills up when performing stunts and if it gets empty, the level ends. During the game you level up your character in seven stats, e.g. speed and grinds. The game uses a "learning by doing" approach to this, meaning that the stat improves if you perform the associated actions often enough. There are also five hidden keys in each level which open up new areas within the level.
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I remember seeing a preview and (I think) an ad in Game Informer for 'Chris Edwards Aggressive Inline'. I thought if BMX could copy the Tony Hawk formula, why not inline skating? I asked for the game and a PS2 for my birthday and my parents delivered.
I knew a few of the skaters from casual TV viewing of inline competitions (I vaguely remember... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_Sports_Channel maybe?)
My friends and I played the heck out of this. The soundtrack was amazing, coloring my music preferences for my high school years. It's what really hooks you, I think. We'd put in the "unlock all keys" cheat and just skate around, doing missions only really when we pleased. We realized you could load a map, then swap the disk to a second PS2, and keep playing the large map as long as you didn't encounter any loading. We had one copy for the longest time, but eventually bought two or more. I even bought it used for Gamecube much later.
Maybe not the best game ever, but one I have a soft spot for, certainly!
Nah! This has aged quite poorly to be honest. It's yet another one of those games that starts off pretty decently and seems destined to be quite good but it just steadily gets more shittier and shittier as it goes on with it's poor level design and frustrating goals.
There isn't many tricks to do either alongside some glitches to contend with and why on Earth is there even a Game Over in this when there isn't much consequence asides losing some points? That's just stupid.
Sad to say, I don't like this one much and I'll be content to never go back to it.