It's going to take a hell of a lot to drag people away from SKATE 3.
I skated for over ten years until I became an old fogey, and the realistic way you perform tricks combined with the awesome new animations make SKATE an incredibly realistic experience.
The statement "shape your world by extending handrails into endless grinds, carving alleys into half pipes and morphing streets into ramps," sounds like another surrealistic THPS to me.