AirBlade

 PlayStation 2
  • Publisher: Namco
  • Release Date: Jan 28, 2002
Metascore
70

Mixed or average reviews - based on 18 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 18
  3. Negative: 3 out of 18
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  1. Electronic Gaming Monthly
    40
    Airblade sabotages everything it gets right with gameplay problems. [Mar 2002, p.135]
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  2. GamePro
    40
    Airblade’s story-based gameplay, however, vacillates between too simple and ridiculously hard—some levels you’ll breeze through, while others you’ll have to repeatedly restart because of stupid mistakes.
  3. PSX Nation
    40
    NAMCO is asking fifty bucks for the privilege of having our fingers sore and our pride hurt from playing a virtual masochist's dream come true.

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User Score
6.1

Mixed or average reviews- based on 17 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 17
  3. Negative: 4 out of 17
  1. oldgamer81
    Mar 30, 2020
    7
    The game has some really nice sides, the graphics are cool, the hover board really feels like hovering und runs very smoothly, the levelThe game has some really nice sides, the graphics are cool, the hover board really feels like hovering und runs very smoothly, the level design is great and it's a nice idea to have a story mode which is nice and cheesy 90s boarder-style. But the story mode is too linear and much to difficult. So often I slammed my controller somewhere because it seems impossible to do the mission within so few seconds and if you fail with one objective of the last part of the level you have to restart all over again. This much to high difficulty seems to have the function to make the pretty short game very long: Since months I replay the game from time to time and still not have finished it. But that is a very frustrating way to have a long gaming experience.
    They should have just built more and bigger levels with a lot more missions and tasks which should have been more non-linear to choose to do the easy ones first until you feel ready for the difficult ones. But, as that is not how it is, this pretty good start for the game ends pretty bad, even though, when you are a patient person with a faible for hovering boards and not easily frustrated, the is some fun for you.    … Full Review »
  2. WesP.
    Oct 8, 2009
    0
    This sucks. Gameplay problems, sensitive controls, lousy plot, steep difficulty curve. This game looks good but it is nothing but faults.
  3. PeterB.
    Jul 26, 2009
    10
    rly good game. lots of fun and the anonymous dude who gave it a 0 is some 13 year old snot who hasn't even played it.
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