EA has announced that their PS3/Xbox 360 skateboard series
Skate (or
skate. if you want it to look all pretentious) is branching out onto popular systems (the Wii and DS).
Skate It, developed by
Skate's Black Box along with Exient, translates the motions of jumping and doing your basic skateboard stuff to stylus gestures drawn over a picture of a skateboard. Producer Scott Blackwood said of the new control scheme " ... it's a totally new way of controlling your skater yet somehow very familiar... it feels right."
Will a new control scheme be adequate competition against Activision's mysterious new DS skateboard game
technology? It's an interesting time for DS skateboarding games. Check out the link for a few (nice-looking!) screens of
Skate It in action on the DS.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
cbylife @ May 12th 2008 12:39PM
all the video showed was drawing lines on a skateboard. that didn't look fun at all!
Jani @ May 12th 2008 1:40PM
Oh yes, that might be cooler than it looks. Think "fingerboarding" or something like that. Flipping your miniature skateboard with a pen. That strikes me as fun if the top screen keeps up with the pace nicely. The possibilities for fine combos certainly is there.. :) And the control scheme differentiates this from the superhero-skateboarders of Tony Hawk Pro Skater..