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Will Skate 4 have the usual customization features and creation tools?Īlmost definitely. While it maps each stick to a foot, Skate maps one stick to both feet and the other for steering. This involved using the analogue sticks to control your skater’s feet, a more technical approach which offered more control, but one with a steeper learning curve than skating games usually offered, and one which limited your ability to pull off zany McTwist to Christ Air into a triple kickflip combos.ĭon't expect anything as complex as Session's control scheme though. Rather than the button mashing, fighting game style combos of THPS, Skate used a 'flick to trick' method.

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While the Tony Hawk series was all about stringing together massive trick combos through the air, manuals, reverts, and grinding, Skate was a simpler experience. Skate was always about being true to skating first and foremost, so expect it to introduce some new features, places, and faces.Īnd If you’re only vaguely acquainted with the series, here seems like as good a place as any to explain how Skate plays. However, not only have graphics and technical abilities advanced since Skate 3, the skateboarding scene itself has continued to evolve.

'It’s going to feel like a Skate game… It’s not going to be something different,' Parry and Chung told Jenkem, so that authentic but accessible playstyle will remain. Technically, it's 'skate.' (with a period), but you have to draw a line with stylizing a game title in your write-ups somewhere. Now we know they've dropped the number, and the sequel is just called Skate.

However, in a subsequent interview with Jenkem, Skate developers Cuz Parry and Deran Chung confirmed that it’s definitely an all new Skate game, but they were coy about confirming a name. The EA Play stream itself seemed to dance around calling it Skate 4, which led some to believe that Skate being back might just mean a remastered trilogy. Thanks to a tweet from the developers, we know for sure that Skate 4 will be the first entry in the series on PC. Parry and Chung also highlighted Laura Miele, recently appointed as EA’s Chief of Worldwide Studios, as being a key figure in championing the need for Skate 4 at the upper echelons and ultimately getting the ball, or board, moving. He seemed very excited about the project during the EA Play stream as well, which bodes well. He was credited by many as being a driving force behind the authenticity of the game, so he’s a safe pair of hands for whatever comes next. Parry especially became the face of the franchise, with his infectious enthusiasm making him a popular figure among players. The studio is being headed up by former Xbox Live general manager Daniel McCulloch with creative leadership by Deran Chun and Chris 'Cuz' Parry, both of who were part of Black Box, an EA subsidiary and the studio behind the original Skate games that was shut down in 2013. The Canadian studio is hiring up for lots of roles, so we presume that development is still relatively early on.

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Here's some Skate development footageĪ few months after announcing a new Skate, EA revealed it formed new studio Full Circle to handle development on the next Skate game. If you're lucky, you might be able to get your hands on it before the rest of us. While there wasn't any mention of a release date, there's now a closed beta sign-up (opens in new tab) on the Skate website. Still, back in 2021, EA teased that the new Skate was coming 'soon' (opens in new tab), with CEO Patrick Wilson namedropping Skate in a question about user-generated content.įull Circle, the new EA studio handling the new Skate game's development, acknowledged the game's still being worked on with a release of some dev footage. All we had was confirmation that it exists, and news that a new studio was being spun up to work on the skatequel. Back when EA confirmed what we then thought of as Skate 4, it was clear that the sequel would be a long-term project. We don't know, but it's safe to expect a wait. Skate's definitely too far in the future for a full picture of what it'll entail, but below you’ll find everything we do know about Skate so far, along with some educated guesses.