Comparison

True Skate vs WW2 Blitz

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

True Skate

Experience the most realistic skateboarding simulation with intuitive finger controls that mimic real-world foot movements. Perform any trick imaginable, customize your skater and board, and create your dream skatepark. Compete globally or with friends.

Highlights
  • Realistic physics-based controls
  • Perform any trick
  • Skater and board customization
  • Unlockable skateparks
  • DIY park creation
  • Replay editor
  • Community features
Features
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#1 game in 80 countries. Loved by millions of skateboarders all over the world. "True Skate is clearly something special" - 4.5/5 - Touch Arcade review. True Skate™ is the closest feeling to real-world skateboarding, with a decade long evolution as the ultimate skateboarding sim. True Skate™ is the Official Mobile Game of Street League Skateboarding. PURE PHYSICS CONTROLS Use your fingers like you would your feet on a real skateboard. Flick the board to make it react exactly how you would expect & drag your finger on the ground to push. - Play with one finger, mind skate with 2 fingers, or play with 2 thumbs, now with Gamepad! The skateboard reacts instantly as foot & finger, thumb or stick feels truly connected whether pushing, popping, flipping or grinding. - True Axis's instant & unified physics system listens for swipe, position, direction and strength from the player & processes how the skateboard should respond in real-time. So the same flick in two different points of the skateboard will react very differently. - Literally any trick is possible with TRUE CONTROL of the skateboard, so if you can dream-it, you can do-it! SKATEPARKS Begin at the Underpass, a beautiful skatepark to get lost in with ledges, stairs, grind rails plus a bowl, half pipe & quarter pipes. NEW! Complete Park Objectives to earn keys to unlock 10 Fantasy skateparks for free. Enter & complete events to shred over 20 real-world spots including; The Berrics, SPoT, Love Park, MACBA, & SLS Championship Courses from 2012. CUSTOMIZE YOUR SKATER AND SETUP Customize your skateboard with decks and grips from Santa Cruz, DGK, Primitive, MACBA Life, Grizzly, MOB, Independent, Knox, Creature, Nomad, Capitol, ALMOST, Blind, Cliche, Darkstar, Enjoi, Zero & more. Customize your wheels & trucks. NEW COMPLETES! OG players can choose legacy completes including Realistic Mode or try a range of new completes designed for street, park, vert and more. EDIT YOUR REPLAY True Skate™ is about nailing the perfect line; timing, strength, precision, angle, late corrections all make a difference. Edit Replays with a fisheye lens that can shake on impact. Insert keyframes on the timeline to blend between cams. Select from; - 5 preset Cams. - Custom Cam with FOV, distortion, distance, height, pitch, pan, yaw & orbit options. - Tripod Cam with auto, fixed, & follow options. DIY All DIY objects are now in the Shop! Check back weekly for sales and new object drops. Unlock objects via park and event missions. Create the park of your dreams. COMMUNITY Compete in Global Leaderboards, or connect with your mates via Challenges & games of S.K.A.T.E or join SANDBOX. SANDBOX is a subscription service that enables players to create & play your True Skate™ experience: - Custom board stats & graphics. - Create your own spot, including the gravity! - Or choose from tons of incredible Community-Made; Skateparks, DIYs, Boards, Skins, & Apparel. PLAY SECOND SCREEN Play with your iOS device or Gamepad as your controller and enjoy True Skate™ in landscape mode on the Big Screen!  - Connect your iOS device to an Apple TV (or AirPlay compatible smart TV), via wi-fi, or via cable using a Lightning Digital AV Adapter. - Pair your Gamepad with your iOS device via Bluetooth. Note: An internet connection is required to access some features. Terms of service can be found at http://trueaxis.com/tsua.html Privacy Policy can be found at https://trueaxis.com/tsspp.html Subscriptions will renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to players iTunes account settings after purchase. No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during the active subscription period.

About

WW2 Blitz

Experience a classic arcade shooter with a World War II theme. Pilot iconic aircraft, engage in intense aerial combat across eight distinct operations, and aim for high scores in this portrait-oriented, offline game.

Highlights
  • Portrait arcade shooter gameplay
  • Eight unique operations
  • Iconic WW2 aircraft selection
  • Power-up system
  • Local high score leaderboards
  • Offline play
  • Adjustable difficulty settings
Features
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Take the stick. Clear the sky. WW2 BLITZ is a portrait arcade shooter built like a cabinet: one credit, eight operations, no waiting for a meter to refill. You grab your fighter and the guns stay up. The rest is skill, greed, and whether you save the bomb. HOW TO FLY Touch and hold on the plane. It follows your thumb on a short leash — tight enough for micro-dodges, loose enough that your finger does not sit on the sprite. Let go and you stop shooting. Double-tap to dump a screen-clearing bomb. You start with three lives, and each life takes three hits. Chip damage turns the hull pips gold, then red. The last pip blinks. The next solid hit is a funeral. CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER P-38 Lightning — faster, twin-column vulcan, built to thread patterns. F6F Hellcat — heavier, a three-way spread, built to cover the screen. Both carry homing missiles once you are fully powered. Pick on the hangar panel; the game remembers. EIGHT OPERATIONS A single campaign. No stage-select grid. CLOUD FORTRESS, IRON TREADS, STEEL ATLANTIC, FROZEN FRONT, CORAL ATOLL, JUNGLE RUINS, ASCENT CANOPY and ORBIT THRESHOLD. Each map has its own music, its own formations, and a fortress that has to come apart before you see the recap. Mid-campaign, captains take the sky first. A destroyer on the Atlantic, a tank on the Frozen Front, a heavy over the Coral Atoll, a helicopter in the Jungle. They hold, they dump medals, then they dive off so the fortress can own the screen. Leave the title idle and attract mode will fly a demo — tap to steal the stick back. POWER, MEDALS, GREED P items step your shot up to three. Extra P at max power still pays. B restocks bombs; extra B at three in the rack pays more. Every kill drops a spinning medal — catch them face-up if you can, they are the real money. Secret medals sit on timed rails if you know the route. Graze enemy fire for extra points. A panic bomb erases shots in the blast and cooks anything still in the fire. Finish a map clean and the recap pays like a cabinet: NO MISS and NO BOMB in gold if you earned them, SECRET if you robbed the rails. Extends at 50,000 then every 100,000. The table is local, per difficulty, and it only wants a one-credit clear. DIPSWITCHES Monkey through Hardcore. Shot speed, density, and score multiplier all move. Hardcore is for people who still remember what a credit was worth. CONTINUE is an operator switch — zero, one, or two extra bodies, default off. Spend one and you stay on this map. Spend one and you do not qualify for ranking. The board is for 1CC. RANKS Local high scores. Initials. No account, no ads, no in-app purchases. Your ranking lives on this device. Portrait. Offline. Built to be played with one thumb and a bad attitude. WW2 BLITZ. Insert one player.

Screenshots

True Skate4 screens
WW2 Blitz4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: WW2 Blitz at 100% against True Skate's 51%. WW2 Blitz also leads on price (Free vs $1.99) and rating (5.0 vs 3.8). True Skate's advantage is ratings volume (9K vs 1) and chart position (#1 vs unranked). On ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

WW2 Blitz is free to download; True Skate costs $1.99 up front. True Skate sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. WW2 Blitz asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

WW2 Blitz holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: True Skate has 9K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 51% of True Skate's written reviews are positive against 100% of WW2 Blitz's.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
True Skate versus WW2 Blitz: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTrue SkateWW2 Blitz
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating3.8 (9K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews51.2% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings9K — better1
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#1 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size196 MB131 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTrue AxisClaudiu COLTEU

Customer experience

True Skate

All ratings8,971 ratings
Positive67.2%
Neutral8.5%
Negative24.3%
Written reviews1,961 reviews
Positive51.2%
Neutral14.9%
Negative33.9%

WW2 Blitz

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

True Skate

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Saved parks and purchases disappearing
  • Crashes when accessing menus and customization
  • Wheels and grip tape resetting after updates
  • Missions not registering correctly

Requested features

4 requests
  • Multiplayer mode to skate with friends
  • More free skateparks and content
  • Ability to preview custom board designs
  • Improved controls for goofy stance players

WW2 Blitz

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

True Skate

One-time10
  • Slow Motion Mode$0.99
  • Skatepark: Inbound$0.99
  • Skatepark: Schoolyard$0.99
Show 7 more
  • Skatepark: The Warehouse$0.99
  • Skatepark: Double Infinity$0.99
  • Skatepark: The Factory$0.99
  • Skatepark: The Valley$0.99
  • Skatepark: Mondo Ramp$0.99
  • Unlimited Custom Images$4.99
  • Skatepark 6 Pack$4.99
None

WW2 Blitz

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is True Skate free?
True Skate costs $1.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is WW2 Blitz free?
WW2 Blitz is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, True Skate or WW2 Blitz?
WW2 Blitz is rated higher. True Skate averages 3.8 out of 5 from 9K ratings, while WW2 Blitz averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do True Skate or WW2 Blitz have ads?
Neither True Skate nor WW2 Blitz shows ads.

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