Dirt or skate?

[Thegide]

I used to be a long time Tony Hawk vet. The franchise has gone stale and is pretty much dead in my eyes.

Skate is an amazing game that puts Tony Hawk to shame. The framerate is sluggish though, presumably due to it being a bad x360 port. Still, this is forgivable as the game is quite enjoyable. I just finished career mode after some 25 hours of gameplay. I suppose there's some replay value left short of playing the career challenges again or playing multiplayer, but running around with no more objectives isn't overly interesting to me.

I played both Dirt and Skate demos, and was sold on skate within 10 minutes of playing. While Dirt is absolute eye candy to look at, I found it exceedingly dull to play... the controls were a let down and it didn't feel like much of a real driving experience.