Two years later in 2009 Skate 2 gets live and proves to be a great hit, breaking down some records in matter and installing itself as the champion of skating games available to be played at that specific date. Skate also set’s the base for the online community as players are encouraged to upload their snapshots or 30 seconds videos captured by using the game’s built in editor to the official website in order to share it with other players among the globe. The career mode is my favorite as it follows the story of “you” while trying to build yourself a name in the skateboarding world by earning cover spots on dedicated skateboarding magazines such as the Trasher and the Skateboard Mag.
The ingame main characters perspective also offers a large variety of animations for stunts and tricks actions as well as for the simple way of rolling around thus adding plus value to the realistic feeling. The world is animated by lot’s of different kind of pedestrians, security officers, taxi drivers, all sort of chatter sounds and really nice music. The action takes place among the streets inside a fictional city called San Vanelona that is so nicely built being enriched with lots of details that really recreates a true realistic experience. As there are no unlocks available, nor other things such as upgrading your board and no skills rating the only thing that will get you limited while playing is your imagination and your actual skills as a player.
Instantly as it became available Skate caught extremely good to the audience as the new approach of focusing onto physics and making the gameplay feel more realistic to the user really paid off.
Our first stop is of course the year 2007 when the first Skate title is released as a direct rival for the Tony Hawk Pro Skater series that comfortably ruled this niche back then.
Well, in my opinion, in order to give a satisfying answer to this we need to take a short, back in time travel and make a summary analysis. Even though the dreams of many got ruined instantly there were still some sort of hope among the die hard fans out there speculating on the unannounced titles scheduled for the E3 EA Play presser.Īs the E3 2017 came and gone it also took away the fans last hope, thus giving birth to an avalanche of frustration that rolled out massively on Twitter against EA, as fans were assaulting the company’s Instagram accounts way back since 2012 demanding for a new episode aka Skate 4 to the franchise.īut why is there such a disagreement between the developers and the fans request, is the question that now sets on every skateboard games enthusiastic out there. The rumor pointing in the direction of Skate 4 being currently under development was shortly invalidated by the EA CEO Andrew Wilson whom clearly specified that no sequel to the Skate 3 was on their current agenda. Earlier this year a tweet made by Daniel Lingen, one of the senior managers for community engagements at Electronic Arts gave born to numerous rumors that got out of control among the Skate games series fans.