Grind Session

Grind Session

released on May 29, 2000

Grind Session

released on May 29, 2000

Grind Session translates the spirit and thrill of hard-core boarding into arcade-style action. Gamers compete in street and tournament competitions, flow on the halfpipe, and freestyle it for the covers of the big skating magazines. The game features eight unique 3-D arenas, such as Van's Triple Crown skate park, and includes hundreds of tricks, customizable gear, and instant replay modes with different camera angles. Play your friends in such multiplayer modes as versus, team play, competition, tech challenge, S-K-A-T-E, and endurance. Grind Session also boasts 10 different skaters with the moves of board stars Daewon Song, Willie Santos, Pigpen, John Cardiel, and Cara Beth Burside, among others. If you want to go your own way, create a skater from scratch. The game's soundtrack is blessed by such hard-core artists as Man or Astroman, Sonic Youth, Suicidal Tendencies, GZA, and DJ Shadow.


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The middle ground between Tony Hawk Pro Skater and Thrasher: Skate and Destroy. The gameplay is good, but everything is generic, the stages, objectives and layout. The Plus is unlocking videos showing the real life skaters abilities.

In my journey to find cool skateboarding/extreme sports games, I found this somewhat obscure 2000 PS1 game called Grind Session. Downloaded it onto my PSP without much thinking and, to my surprise, it's great!

It's a lot like THPS1, but better in my opinion. It has more of a focus on finding lines, and the controls and a bit more sim like, making it harder to hit those lines. There's a good challenge here and I genuinely think anyone who is a fan of those early THPS games will get a kick out of this.