I've actually been playing Skater a TON at work lately (a lot of sitting around) and it's absolutely fantastic. I'd been playing true skate for about 6 months but the awful level design, and the fact that you had to pay for more, made the game kind of suck to me. Not to mention that you couldn't really do tricks with rotation. You could, but the way the game handled it was pretty shitty IMO. Skater does rotation very well and simply copying other peoples runs to unlock the new levels is a much better concept. Only took me like 2 or 3 days to get every location.