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EA announces Skate.

mzkhadir

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The closest thing to being on a skateboard, Electronic Arts announced today that SKATE will be released for the PlayStation®3 system and the Xbox 360? video game and entertainment system in 2007. SKATE will deliver the feel of skating through innovative controls, authentic cameras and a fully reactive skateboarding city. The game features professional skaters such as Danny Way and PJ Ladd, as well as a reactive city and relevant in-game cameras that capture and deliver the most authentic skateboard videogame experience to date.

?Our game offers a skate mecca for both skaters and gamers in search of the definitive authentic skating video game experience,? said Scott Blackwood, executive producer, EA Black Box. ?We?re focused on capturing the actual feeling of skating with the innovative control system, the physics driven animations, the intelligent cameras working together to really deliver the closest thing to being on a board.?


SKATE?s unique control scheme captures the true feel of skating versus the typical button mashing gameplay of past skating games. Featuring physics-driven animations, gamers will have a unique gaming experience every time they pick up the controller since no two tricks will ever be the same.

Developed by EA Black Box in Vancouver, British Columbia, SKATE will deliver all the style, fun, creativity and culture of skateboarding without the countless hours of practice, broken bones and hospital visits. SKATE has not yet been rated by PEGI or USK.
 
"deliver the feel of skating through innovative controls"
if they plan on pulling that off then they would have to make it actually realistic. Realistic skateboarding does not include 100ft grinds to manual to 360 kick-flip down 20 step staircase to dark-slide up a 10-kink rail. Since they can't do that, it will be "boring" and boring doesn't sell.

Regardless, if it doesn't have the TH logo on it the kids won't buy it.

Edit: Gimme 720 again.
 
Originally posted by: Homerboy
"deliver the feel of skating through innovative controls"
if they plan on pulling that off then they would have to make it actually realistic. Realistic skateboarding does not include 100ft grinds to manual to 360 kick-flip down 20 step staircase to dark-slide up a 10-kink rail. Since they can't do that, it will be "boring" and boring doesn't sell.

Regardless, if it doesn't have the TH logo on it the kids won't buy it.

Edit: Gimme 720 again.

OMFG I loved 720 in the arcades... god i musta dumped enough quarters into that machine to pay for it..

 
they tried doing 720 on a console and if i remember right it wasn't that great. in the arcade that game ruled tho.
 
Innovative controls?
I think the new Tony Hawk game on the Wii will have innovative controls, not some EA knock-off for the 360 and PS3.
 
Originally posted by: fisher
they tried doing 720 on a console and if i remember right it wasn't that great. in the arcade that game ruled tho.

yah nothing comes close to that odd angled joystick they had.. was a great idea..
 
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