The Difficulty Gauge decreases as the jump difficulty increases, and therein lays the challenge.Īnd, finally, it's time to compete! To enter the World Championships, you must first rise through the Regional, Sectional, and National ranks.Īt each level, you're presented with the final scores of the top three competitors. As it reaches the end and quickly moves back to the right, you must click as it passes through the center of the Difficulty Gauge. When your skater launches into a jump, the slider on the Jump Meter slides to the extreme left. If you're as eager to perform your first routine as we were, you'll want to enter a Competition right away, but you'll soon find it's a better idea to log some practice time in Just Skate mode and work out the kinks.ĭuring your performance (Competition or Just Skate), you are responsible for nailing the jumps this is accomplished with precision mouse clicks. She lets you know when you don't have enough space on the ice to complete a selected move, and if you don't have enough speed to perform a jump or a combo, well, those options are just plain grayed out. Coolest thing about choreographing a routine? Download any midi file and interpret the music as you see fit.Īlso, you can choose from dozens of costume styles, colors, and patterns to fashion the perfect outfit, and string together more than 40 different moves for a truly unique skating program.Īs your tutor during the choreography stage, Michelle keeps you from painting yourself into a corner of the rink. In these endeavors, you've options-a-plenty and nearly boundless combinations.Ĭoolest thing about creating a skater? Import a photo of your own face, so you can actually compete as yourself. Your objective in Michelle Kwan Figure Skating is to place first in the World Championships (a pretty lofty goal), but the game's real strength comes in the form of creating skaters and choreographing original routines. Everything from Kwan's image and voice to her favorite routine and trademark moves are here, so anyone can take to the ice as the decade's most decorated skater. Michelle Kwan Figure Skating is a competitive, fun figure skating simulation that succeeds on many levels it's rewarding, creative, and deep-and, guess what, it's also graceful, fluid, and elegant.ġ9-year old World Champion figure skater Michelle Kwan is the inspiration for EA's foray onto the skating rink, and her influence abounds throughout the game. Words you'd never use to describe a video game, right? Words we thought we'd never use either…until now.
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