Images Of EA’s Skate Appear
October 9th, 2006 by Tobias Dahl in Adventure, Simulation, Sports
Scans of The Official PlayStation Magazine reveal the first images and screenshots of EA’s upcoming skateboarding game, Skate. The images are from the PS3 version, and they certainly look better than any Tony Hawk game we’ve seen. Of course, pretty visuals don’t equal good and fun gameplay. We’ll have to see when it comes out sometime in 2007. More scans after the break.
October 9th, 2006 at 7:16 pm
Go screw urself EA project 8 ftw!
October 10th, 2006 at 4:03 am
How many Tony Hawk games is this now? 16?
October 10th, 2006 at 8:23 am
well i got boreds by the 3rd
October 10th, 2006 at 8:27 am
I was bored by the 3rd too. But the GBA one was pretty fun actually.
October 10th, 2006 at 8:50 am
soz never got it…
October 10th, 2006 at 1:38 pm
I haven’t played since 3 but, project 8 looks pretty good.
October 10th, 2006 at 3:13 pm
EA WlLL BE DOOMED!
October 10th, 2006 at 3:16 pm
“EA WlLL BE DOOMED!”
Rofl
October 10th, 2006 at 3:25 pm
”Zac Says”
rofl
October 10th, 2006 at 5:25 pm
FUCK EA! DON’T BUY ANY MORE OF THEIR GAMES! fOR THE GOOD OF ALL VIDEO GAMES!
October 11th, 2006 at 6:53 am
huh?
“Doom Says:”
rofl?
anyone else find that funny? or is it just doom?
October 11th, 2006 at 8:54 am
I think ur copying out of being battered by my ultimate response, now please be quiet. Ur not funny and lack all depth. Go watch the 65+ channel or something else that will rock your world.
October 11th, 2006 at 2:15 pm
Did Doom just discribe himself?
October 13th, 2006 at 1:07 am
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October 14th, 2006 at 2:00 pm
”Did Doom just discribe himself? ”
Did Emerald just post a class D nerd remark again?
October 15th, 2006 at 4:45 am
(Sigh) Do any of you players of the Tony Hawk franchise even know anything about skateboarding? If you did maybe you’d appreciate EA’s attempt at making a realistic skateboarding experience. Tony Hawk is definitely fun, but focuses mainly on points and not the essence of skateboarding in general. In “Skate”, you will actually experience skateboarding without being able to ollie people and land everything possible. The least you can do is give it a chance and skate as the real pros.
October 15th, 2006 at 2:10 pm
They should include uzi’s in tony hawks skating, and maybe I’ll give it a go.
October 16th, 2006 at 3:32 pm
This is not THPS, you suckers.
October 16th, 2006 at 3:58 pm
NEWSFLASH: They’re both skating games.
October 28th, 2006 at 7:09 pm
thps is for those who enjoy cheap combo fun and rail accelleration and the awesome “physics” and “star power” of the pros. A game made by those who find skateboarding to boring and not hyperactive enough to emulate. I’m sure most people found Thrasher Skate and Destroy too slow and real to enjoy. Activision finally discovered motion capture. I’ve played a demo of thps project 8 on the 360 and it has the same look with better graphics frictionless rails and awesome star power that made the series a hit with the kids and those who find realism boring.
October 28th, 2006 at 7:17 pm
oh yeah thps has awesome spaz combos
November 1st, 2006 at 6:09 am
this is going to be the best skate game shut up tony! thrasher had it down
November 5th, 2006 at 4:58 pm
Thrasher is like the best skatin game ever made, tony hawks is like, so unbelievably crap it hurts, am still playin thrasher today, it never gets old, always some new line to try, none of the cheesey nonsense THPS has… i always hoped Thrasher 2 would come out, but it hasnt yet, maybe we shuld send some angry letters demanding a sequel lol, i hope this Skate game will be as realistic and challanging as thrasher is, thps is for retards, its like…..aaargh (is enraged) i dont even know what to say, except MAKE THRASHER TWOOOOOOOO!!!!
November 6th, 2006 at 5:29 am
dude, this game is gonna be awesome… realistic skateboarding instead of that tony hawk stuff…
November 8th, 2006 at 2:17 am
yes. finally a relalistic SKATE game with Chris Cole. He is just awesome. i even bought black nail polish cause of him. 360 bs ollie kickflips 3 eva.
November 9th, 2006 at 3:18 am
projec8 and skate
… damn i gotta get a ps3
November 9th, 2006 at 3:19 am
CR1S COLE IS GOD
November 12th, 2006 at 6:11 am
other thrashers? good
November 12th, 2006 at 11:36 pm
YESSS!! KEEP MAKING REALISTIC GAMES CUZ IM SICK OF THIS UNREALISTIC BULLSHIT!! NEXT MAKE A FUCKING RELISTIC SNOWBOARD GAME PEASSEEE!!! PROJECT 8 IS SICKKK THO
November 13th, 2006 at 5:26 am
boycot project8
November 13th, 2006 at 8:22 pm
YES! this a real skateboarding game ever! SKATE RULEZZZ!
November 16th, 2006 at 5:29 am
huh?
November 17th, 2006 at 3:45 pm
It is time for a competator, NS has gone soft… Project 8 is not that good and when you have a hold of the market you start to slip. NS slipped! I for on hope this game is great.
November 20th, 2006 at 3:29 am
k. so ive played project 8 and ive beaten it.
sucks asss.
i actually skateboard. and im good
what pisses me off is the fact that tony hawk just isnt realistic. they said they were going to make it realistic but they ollie way to high. styles are way too good. and you cant do 360 flip back lips on telephone wires.
i think ea is going to be sick for anyone that truely is into skateboarding. if your a person who loves skateboarding games because of the unrealistic tricks and abilities then go for project 8.
November 20th, 2006 at 4:16 am
i played the demo that was enough for me no thanks tony
November 20th, 2006 at 4:19 am
read some newspaper articles about the ps3 launch campers. People got robbed, shot and stabbed. It’s insane.
November 22nd, 2006 at 3:15 am
EA has done good games all the time man. forget whoever said go buy tony hawk. Thawks idea was cool but got taken out of his reach and made gay by everyone who made it(people who dont skate and dont understand it). This game looks so real that i think it will be a huge step in realistic video games. plus haslam is in it so theyll probably have pole jams in it. instead of gay natas spins
November 23rd, 2006 at 11:11 am
This game is going to be way better than any of the tony hawk games but i have to give tony hawks their props becuase the last game was better than them all as far as super grind powerline combos its still super fake but getting better remebr on T.H.U.G. 1 to beat the game you had to grind taht gay ass ungodly line. But skate is gonna blow tony hawk out of the water because 1 its like real skating and 2 EA Games > all at sports or anytype of competitive game comapanys
November 23rd, 2006 at 11:46 pm
I liked the Tony hawk games and I play them lots of times…but OMG I have to minimize all the stats, take out the balance meters and the stpid game keeps unrealistic! If this game is not going to be a disapointment like Tony hawk was, I am surelly going to buy the ps3 just to have fun whit it! Anyway, I am going to buy Tony hawks because I love to play the story… Danny Way, Pj Ladd, Chris Haslam, Chris Cole and Rob Dyrdek…hope they put Geoff Rowley, Andrew Reynolds, Eric Koston, Salabanzi, Arto Saari, Mark Appleyard and Billy Marks in it(probably none of theese…)!
November 24th, 2006 at 4:46 am
I HOPE THEY MAKE IT FOR PC TOOO!!!!!
I will buy it 10 months prior!!!!
November 27th, 2006 at 6:44 pm
the only thing this game has on project 8 is that rob dyrdek,chris haslem,and chris cole are in it.So fuck yourself ea and 2k games are better any way.
November 28th, 2006 at 4:51 am
this game looks tight
November 30th, 2006 at 8:49 am
shut up man pick up a board and skate..this aint the future mann…we dont need a game to what we can do outside??? nerds are homo
November 30th, 2006 at 9:26 am
Haha true.
A lot of people play sports games. And a lot play car driving games. Personally i don’t understand the attraction.
December 1st, 2006 at 7:23 pm
get over yourselfs, project 8 is pretty cool but this game is going to be the best thing ever, but seriously guys put down the controllers and go pick up a board
December 2nd, 2006 at 3:36 pm
You guys should check out the gameplay footy. type “EA skate” at http://www.youtube.com and you’ll get Rob Dyrdek playing, and the game filmed.It’s unbelievably fluid and realistic.I just hope Josh Kalis is in it.
Said again, put down the controllers and go skate. Get your flips down, and you’re bitchin’.
December 3rd, 2006 at 4:51 am
all of the other EA skate games have sucked in the past but i want to check out this new game SKATE
December 3rd, 2006 at 5:38 am
hey i think this game is gonna be sick as hell all of u guys that are dissin this game shut it this is gonna be like real skatin not all about grinding on telephone line and nada spin on ur head this is gonna be real
December 3rd, 2006 at 5:42 am
the only thing this game has on project 8 is the physics, grinds, lack of gayness, and the fact that every time you do a trick it will look different and you have to “nail the trick” every time, this includes the ollies, oh and tony hawks not in it. And if you happen to skate in HD (real life) can you link a 30ft grind with multi flip combos awesome spins grabs and manuels to ramp to revert. no but you might be able to land a kickflip tailslide shuv-it out. fornication not involved, unless its just you and the hand…rail.
December 3rd, 2006 at 5:47 am
oh ya and can you buy a lambo and speed down a back road excessivly with oout crashing or getting a ticket? and can you fall off a rail without slamming the concrete?
December 3rd, 2006 at 5:56 am
maybe im just too white and nerdy to do hard skating dont want to slam too much
December 3rd, 2006 at 6:04 am
check out the screens at “New screenshots of EA’s Skate-Playstation 3 News -QJ.Net” they have better resolution than these.
the Aram Fingal of “Over-drawn at the Memory Bank” MST3K
December 3rd, 2006 at 7:03 am
ali boulala and jason dill are in it too
December 3rd, 2006 at 6:10 pm
Y the fuck are all u guys spazzin out over another skate game. Tony hawk if your in the mood can be a really fun experience. But i skate so i do like full cab flips, laser flips, inward heelflips and it doesnt give you squat points. I wish there wasnt a point system. i aim for reallistic tricks not 1080+quad kickflip+triple heelflip+double backflip.
December 3rd, 2006 at 10:37 pm
DUDE TONY HAWK GNARLY DUDE! man sike. all yall dissin on skate r trippin man. the tony hawk franchise is fun but its not real skating. at all. real skating has nothing to do with a million trick combos. skates probly not gonna sell well cuz of all you. skates just trying to be a realistic skateboarding game. not something where you do a madonna to a manual to a kickflip to a wallride up ten story building and 3 flip out BECAUSE THATS NOT POSSIBLE
December 4th, 2006 at 7:21 am
true dat this game is going to be the only i will be able to land a kickflip in motion. il have to skate next year.
December 5th, 2006 at 6:34 am
fuck tony hawk and that fake ass shit , no one does a fuckin front flip wit a hardflip and then manuals and land starts feebeling a 50 foot rail , this games way more realistic , if u really skated u would know that shit shit is way better
December 6th, 2006 at 2:48 am
dennis busenitz and jerry hsu are in it too
December 6th, 2006 at 8:58 am
EA has lots of good games, but some times the games are short like BLACK
hope this new one can last for w hile, and i think some of this guys are judt jerks, the esence of skating is not about how many tricks u can land, its about how u do that tricks, such as simple and beautiful like a KiCKFLiP made with good style, can fuck up a barely done 360 Flip :S i ove you all guys, just keep it real and give it a chance please 
December 10th, 2006 at 8:23 am
how do you know who is going to be in it? i dont remember these names from the psm article
December 11th, 2006 at 11:51 pm
Whats with people saying there is nothing wrong with Tony Hawk? Yes there is. Tony Hawk games suck. Why would there be a ramp in the middle of a highway? Why can you grind on telephone wires? Tony Hawk games have gone farther and farther off the scale of realism with the release of every continuous game. Somebody needs to slap activision for turning skateboarding into the teen comic strip its become and get back to the basics. Back to what made Tony Hawk such a good game in the first place. Its great that EA is stepping up. What I want is a game thats so hard and realistic I have trouble tre flipping off a curb, I want a game that gets your adrenalin rushing because there is a 15 stair set infront of you with a perfect run way but you only have 2 hours before the security guards make their rounds. I want a skateboarding game.
December 12th, 2006 at 7:56 am
I live in michigan and when i got a fractured heel, i dont have a warm winter to look to and skate when im heeled up like all of those damn cali kids. If your a real skater you know the power it holds on you. its not a f**king hobbie its your god damn life. so to keep me sane i played with a tech deck, watch vids, or played THPS to keep sane. but i had to lower the stats and turn sim mode on. Now that EA is bring Skate to the market i(no wait). All skateboarders like me have something to look forward to when were injured. Believe it or not but skate games have a very possitive move on the industry if you kno how to use it. I used my imagination and thought up new tricks that i havent done yet with THPS and learned them quicker than i would of. And since Skate is coming out i have something better to use, to learn, and to thank.
December 12th, 2006 at 4:10 pm
Yea im tired of all these faggot ass kids saying TONY HAWK OWNZzZ!!
December 12th, 2006 at 10:37 pm
k so all thoes gamers out there hating on this game are all combo terds. yeah man 3 000 000 point! i rule. u dont skate, Appreciate what ea games is trying to do( u rep it Theory. And someone is reping thrasher!! That’s tight. Tony hawk is palyed out, and that game is ONE BIG ADVERTISING COMMERCIAL AD. what ea did with nhl 07 it sick. this game will be sick. all u tony players are posers. word
December 12th, 2006 at 10:48 pm
they should bring it back old skool styles and call it SKATE OR DIE
December 13th, 2006 at 5:58 am
NADS00, you’re fuckin right man. Remember the downhill jam and pool sesh w/ the sticks to beat the shit outa eachother. HAHA. Yeah, 100% trueness. Fuck all the dumbasses who think this game looks gay cause its NOT tony hawk for one…fucknuts. And for two, most of you guys probably dont even skate. And if you do, you blow my nuts anyways. So yeah, go do some fuckin frontside flips, and switch front 360s before you talk shit about this game cause it looks tight…fuckin game tweekers.
December 13th, 2006 at 6:06 am
oh, and yeah, all you guys who are sayin to drop them controllers and pick a board are right. DAMN…what has this world come to? I wanna see more tech shit like fakie tre fakie manny, fakie flip out. And, some of that no comply front 360 hardflips…sounds rediculous but i’ve done it sons. or one of my all time favs, flip back smith back 180 out…hella tuff. SOMEONE DO IT PLEASE. Yeah yeah, all about the M: (manik).
December 14th, 2006 at 1:31 am
this aint tony hawk i got respect fo his games but skate is gonna slap P8 outta the water
December 14th, 2006 at 3:01 am
you are all stupid and obviously dont really skate.the tony hawk franchise is nothing more than a marketing company pushing high grossing logos and over rated names. skates gameplay is the most realistic skating simulation today and its launch will de-thrown thps once and for all, which is about time. this game will be huge to any real wood pusher.
December 14th, 2006 at 8:07 am
your guys are all fuckin retared it is a video game so it really doesn’t matter what is better
December 15th, 2006 at 10:20 am
Have you seen the P8 commercial that says “this is skateboarding” (hahahaaha) right. that sure looks like it. Skate will show THPS how to make a game that really shows skateboarding. And to everyone who says go pick up a real board. yea sure thats good advice, but like my last comment talk about sometimes your injured and skating games do keep you sane so im givin props to them. o yea and REAL DEAL TEAL, i do have fs flips and switch fs 360’s. I watched Osiris “Subject to change” and The Butcher’s Reg 360’s inspired me to learn them switch. I find them easier to get around than Reg
December 16th, 2006 at 5:22 am
hells yea, i saw this on rob & big, they are gonna be on it, its looks so real, tony hawk ftl, skate ftw bitches
December 16th, 2006 at 6:59 am
Im sick of bein able to do a backflip rocket air fs shovit to darkslide 360 flip out. and all the tony hawk games are the same, finally something new came out thats different and not so gay like having quarter pips on cars.
u guys all suck ass (my ass)
December 16th, 2006 at 7:02 am
except for you raffhimself and everyone who else skates
December 16th, 2006 at 7:58 am
i think its cool that they’re makin a skate game thats realistic, its about time
December 16th, 2006 at 8:01 am
and yeah thrasher was def the best skate game
December 16th, 2006 at 8:43 pm
Tony Hawk’s games were lame after THPS2. That game there was at least a trueism SIM mode you could turn on. I was told the other games had this mode, but it was way different than thps2. Free skate mode with sim mode one, some ser sessions on rails and whatnot. Skate looks groovy . XBox 360 will kill PS3. AMPed series games plus SKATE will def make my mind up.
December 17th, 2006 at 4:34 am
My bro jus gotta 360 and im dyin to get this game ^_^ it better be as realistic and lifelike as everyone who’s excited about it are anticipating.
Skating is brilliant, though ive not been out in ages for a skate, i love it… Thrasher was totally on point how it depicted skating, like you actually got pure excited and shit when you nailed a sick gap, and there was always stuff on every level that you would just notice one day and try, but you wouldnt get it first time, maybe not even second, so you kept trying, just like real life, i gave up on THPS after the second one, theres nothing in those games except arcade crap, hell my girlfriend can play Tony hawks games…. but give her thrasher and its like a fish outta water….
Games about skatin should reflect the true skill involved, and not be about just mashin buttons as fast as you can to cram as many flips into one jump as you can…..
Seriously….all the people on here that are sayin ‘ooh tony hawks is amazin, its the best thing ever’ must be stupid….. and if its skaters that are sayin they love it then thats even worse,
By buying THPS your just helpin to finance the next game and totally perpetuating the whole idea that skatin has to be extreme and suicidal to be cool, i mean really, how sick are you of skating and some wee jerk comin up and sayin ‘Do a backflip’ when your skatin a mini…..
So yeah, my drunken rant draws to a close, I just hope that Skate is actually a true skating game, i dont care if its short, so long as the stages are good, and theres always somethin to go skate on ^_^
Peace
December 17th, 2006 at 5:47 am
skate will be on the ps3 xb360 and ps3 are good in there pwn ways
December 20th, 2006 at 12:39 am
skate will PWN all tony hawk games
screw tony hawk and its creators
i hope they are punished with genital warts.
December 22nd, 2006 at 3:50 am
all of u guys are gay because non of u skate and u think skating is about doing 900s and tripel kickflips to wall plant but skating is nothin like that so if u think tony hawk games are good u guys are probaly bunch of gay nerds who just sit and do nothin all day do something with ur lives try skating then u will kno how skatin is realy like
December 22nd, 2006 at 3:54 am
ya i skate and i find all the tony hawk games stupid cause in real life skating is not about olieng 30 ft and doin tripel kickflips to wall plant excualy that stuff doesnt even exsists and maybe this game will be what skating is rlly about like doing olie that are not to high and no grinding rooftops hopefuly it will be straight up street and maybe some miniramps but not like ramps coming out of the wall or anyhing like that
December 22nd, 2006 at 4:03 am
the sickest part about this game is that like local skaters from around were i live are gonna be in it like pj ryan gallant and dave bazinski(who kickflip el toro)every one from around here look up to those guys. I live in a small city near boston and i go their a lot to skate and hopefully this game will have real citys that dont have half pipes on top of buildings and stuff like that and games like tony hawk ruin skatin. when im skating nd im like kickfliping 5sets ppl tell me i suck because they think i should be doing backflips of of it so ya tony and activision could lick my balls
December 23rd, 2006 at 7:09 am
wow u are some fucking posers this isnt tony hawk u fucking idoits this is EA and its gonna be alot better than the birdman shit so go fucking try to woodpush
December 23rd, 2006 at 8:06 am
yo im sorry Gustavo but that kickflip down el toro was bullshit. a complete eyesore. i dont just go and try and kickflip el toro. in fact no one should kickflip anything more than a 16. it just dont look right. you cant put style in something that big. plus he didnt land it first try, that was his first mistake. most of the people who did something on el toro was first try. so he should of givin up. end
December 23rd, 2006 at 10:57 am
yo this is gonna be crazy actually feeling like you own the board and not feelin like you can bust into a rail with 4 tricks and bust out 4 other tricks before you end up landing on another rail from a 4 story drop, lets get some reality crackin’, just imagine stylin out your rider, new pair of Accels fresh lammed Chocolate board almost smelling the black top and maybe actually getting gutwrenched pre-attempting a trick, if you can say thats gonna be busted ass, well i’d like to see what your ridin’ cuz that hotness is gonna be siccckk!
THPS4 was kinda nice cuz it had sim mode, if you turned all your stats down it felt a bit real. but DAMMM EA’s gonna be all over this, and thats no lie, jus wait for it bros
(yo those Co.’s i name dropped better be happening in this or else its sketch, ahhhh just playin, but hopin)
December 25th, 2006 at 7:03 am
project 8 sucks
December 28th, 2006 at 9:20 pm
yo im sorry Gustavo but that kickflip down el toro was bullshit. a complete eyesore. i dont just go and try and kickflip el toro. in fact no one should kickflip anything more than a 16. it just dont look right. you cant put style in something that big. plus he didnt land it first try, that was his first mistake. most of the people who did something on el toro was first try. so he should of givin up. end - Raff aka “dumbass mcgee”
You are a complete dumbass. How is kickflippign a 20 stair more unstylish than a 16. There aren’t limits on what is stylish and what isn’t. Just ‘coz you don’t land a trick on first try doesn’t mean you give that shit up. Maybe you should learn what it is to actually skate. You sound like a true poser.
December 30th, 2006 at 1:03 am
This game looks good. Anyone who was skating around the time of the 1st THPS title would remember Thrasher Skate and Destroy. That game is still better than tony hawk games now.
December 30th, 2006 at 2:22 am
This game will rock THP8
December 31st, 2006 at 9:31 am
I think this game is going to be better than thp8. I cant wait to play it!
December 31st, 2006 at 10:28 am
Tony Hawk is to real skating what Blitz Arena is to real football. It’s very clearly not a simulation, but more of an arcade representation of skateboarding. I have the new Tony Hawk Downhill Jam for the Wii, and while it’s incredibly unrealistic, it’s also really fun. I do wish that EA would release this game for something other than the PS3 so that I actually have a chance to check it out and enjoy some realistic skating at 2am in February (yes, I actually skate, but bad asphalt + no lighting + 15 degree weather makes wipes extra painful and extra likely). Tony Hawk has its place, but a realistic option has been sorely lacking for a long time.
January 2nd, 2007 at 12:50 am
‘This game looks good. Anyone who was skating around the time of the 1st THPS title would remember Thrasher Skate and Destroy. That game is still better than tony hawk games now.’
v true me an my mate still play that like everydayyy.
this game sounds sickk.
an all you losers just let ea and activision make their games an stop fussin which ones gonna be better.geeks lol. yeaaa
January 2nd, 2007 at 5:38 am
Wow, I thought I was the only one who loved Thrasher Skate and Destroy. That game was sick. I got rid of my old PS1 for an XBox and miss that old game. It was cool since you actually had to push, and the friction on the rails and curbs was cool, and how you had to balance and everything. This game SKATE is already sick if it has those same fun aspects. I have skated for over a decade now and the more real the game, the more fun. Tony Hawk’s is over the top for me.
January 3rd, 2007 at 3:54 am
k project 8 is fucken shitty,you cant create a park,you cant create a trick and theres very few choices for create a skater and theres other shit you cant do that u could do in underground 2 and american wastland like i didnt c the point in making this game.the only good thing about it is its a little more realistic,better graphics and that nail that trick.so when u think about it i paid $60 for a game thats sucks more than the rest of the tony hawk games,except for thp1.ya so they blew it on that one i dont no wat they were thinking.
January 3rd, 2007 at 3:44 pm
I have every single Tony Hawk except project 8. Its a disgrace what Neversoft has done to the series after 3.
Every new game that they bring out focus’s on combos. Even Project 8. A “next generation game” with shit graphics and collision detection. Ive been skating for 5 years. I dont care if you done believe me. I think what EA are doing looks very promising. Remember “Thrasher skate and Destroy” (ps1) Thats been the closest thing to skateboarding so far on a computer.
Skateboarding games shouldnt be easy. And I hope what EA are creating, will turn out amazing. (P.J Ladd fucking legend)
January 3rd, 2007 at 4:24 pm
yesyes foockin yes
to be honest they should just make thrasher skate and destroy on ps2 or xbox 360 lol.
that’d do me nicely lol.
safe 2 all
kooool>!
and don nar i still play that game its raddd.
January 3rd, 2007 at 5:17 pm
Xbox360 25fps
PS3 60fps
I wanna play this, and see Rob and Big
January 5th, 2007 at 9:23 pm
yes, this game will change videogame-skateboaridng forever.
thps games are fun, if u let them be fun, but its much less realistic etc. skate will be alot more realistic. it will include a bigger learning curve but landing a baisc trick will actaully be satisfying
January 7th, 2007 at 1:41 am
I am looking forward to this game it has an amazing cast of skaters, and the realism oh man. It would kick butt if Louie Barletta was in it.
January 7th, 2007 at 2:04 am
you guys are retards!only real skaters will enjoy SKATE because it simulates REAL skateboarding.Tony Hawk is for fat losers that are to lazy to get off their couch and skate and say they can land impossibles because the game makes it look sooooo easy.
January 7th, 2007 at 8:14 pm
Skate is going to be on the xbox360 as well as the ps3. rockstar should have made a thrasher for ps2
January 8th, 2007 at 6:41 pm
iKNOWtheTRUTH,
Skateboarding games provide EVERYONE the chance to skateboard. Not everyone has the willpower to start skating and keep on. For those who do skateboard, you will apreciate what Tony Hawk has done to the industry. I for one started skating when THPS was first realeased. Skateboarding is the best feeling in the world and not everyone will experience it.
I cant wait for the realease of this game. True skating is about having fun.
January 9th, 2007 at 5:40 am
for all those who think they need to buy a ps3 to get this game: it is getting released on the 360 as well
January 10th, 2007 at 11:04 pm
dude this game will fucking beat the shit out of tony hawk will #1 is that i skateboard and ive been skating for one whole year and #2 this game is way better than tony hawk because tony hawk you can do anything thats impossible but still land the trick and skate is better because they made it more realistic not like tony hawk and i think tony hawk game are just stupid because you can ollie over a person and grind in telephone wires and i can’t wait for skate to come out and probably people think that tony hawk is better i say those people who like tony hawk games could go lick a donkey’s ass forr all i care and yeah so thats it
January 10th, 2007 at 11:06 pm
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January 11th, 2007 at 2:05 am
the xbox 360 is clearly superior to the new PS3 and nintendo wii. both of those systems lack jus so much tthat add to the gaming experience that i so truly desire. for example the motherboard on the 360 holds up to 30gb!!!!! thats so much!!! the ps3’s motherboard mainframe is only a b class computer chip that reacts in coherence with a class chips that are truly superior in ever single way!! the wireliess of the ps3 is bad because of the 30 point laser that it uses to propally connect with the port based on the core mother chip of hte controller…. so everyone noes that the 360 is the best system for the advanced gamers who need the best the of the best… does anyone know about hte second ending to starwars battlefront 2? its truly mesmorizing i got hter by having hte best scores…
gamer out!
January 11th, 2007 at 2:27 am
you people are idiots this isnt project 8
January 13th, 2007 at 2:16 am
They should add Ragdoll, Marc Johnson, Mark Appleyard, and Jim Greco…I read somewhere that they were gonna add real life spots so I would like to see El Toro and Love Park as well as some other famous spots…I do skate but I live in Canada and we just had a huge snowstorm…
January 13th, 2007 at 2:21 am
And this game is being made in Vancouver (im from Williams Lake) So theyd better have some good Canadian stuff…they already have Chris Haslam (my fav skater) but not just Canadian skaters they should also have some Canadian music like Alexisonfire…
January 13th, 2007 at 10:59 am
you talking about Tony hawks deuce bag project 8? That game fills up my portable poop bag in 30 seconds because it is the most crap-tastict game ever oops i crapped my pants are not big enough to hold all the hot butt mud that Poop Bag #8 has to unload. hope project #2 slides out soon wouldn’t want to miss its nutty flavor. careful not to slip in it though.
January 13th, 2007 at 11:02 am
that was for you jdsj!
January 13th, 2007 at 11:11 am
For the little pussy that had the balls to have his name as Raff blows has something to learn. One theres no way in hell you can call someone whos won 8 contests and yes they were all advanced division. and named king of Kalamazoo michigan in a tournament of Skate with more than 35 people. you obviously dont kno shit about style either. style isnt something that depends on how big something is. and that kids kickflip looked like shit, complete shit, ive only seen one kickflip down a 19 that looked good. but anything under 16 is gold. im not sayin you can’t do it. but its pretty hard to get style in a 20 set flip. so dont try and bust my balls when you obviously dont even know what style is. So why dont you just sit down watch and look at a few vids and pics, watch how they flip, land, and roll on there boards not the size of the rail and stairs. then you might just be lookin at style. O and keep the name Mark Rafferty in the back of your mind. It’ll pop up in the near future.
January 13th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
Re: gama4life
U are as Lame as they come and you don’t even know the stats of your own loser console!!! X360 just has a 20gig, like twenty, like two zero capacity. I just upgraded my PS3 to a 180gig hard drive and it was simple to do! You can’t do that on a X360 the 5 minutes and don’t say you can!!!
You knew anything about electronics and their costs, you wouldn’t be saying that Lammo cr*p! How old are you? Like a 5 or 6 yr old???
Go home to your mommy and quit posting trash about things you obviously know nothing of!
***Raft himself*** has it together and knows what he’s talking about. Skate will will be Supreme, and forever flush Hawks out of your system if you were lame enough to buy it. And yeah I heard it was a timed exclusive and should be out for X360, 6 to 9 months later! But PS3 will be a Pure Blast with Sixaxis Control!
But just so you know there is a motion sensing controller that works on X360! Don’t ask me about it, google it!
January 14th, 2007 at 11:42 pm
http://www.gametrailers.com/umwatcher.php?id=22383
CHECK IT OUT. FUCKING HELLL!!!!!!!
January 16th, 2007 at 4:13 am
Monarky knows about good taste.
but i am a 360 fan, but only cause they already got there shit together, but i wouldnt mind a ps3 in a year or so, give it some breathing room. kinda like the wii, my girl is waitin a year for them to put the dvd drive in. but for now the qraphics war is pretty square until the ps3 comes out with some f*cked up online graphic card able to be downloaded on the drive. sorry if im not up to date with the tech, but even if its possible or not thats a damn good idea. hold up im copyrighting that shit. you all saw it.
January 16th, 2007 at 6:28 am
In order for this game to completely sell me, EA needs to put a really deep board set-up aspect into the game. Remember in the first Tony Hawk game when you could select if you wanted loose or tight trucks, which would affect your skater’s turning abilities the way you wanted it to? This feature was taken out in all the games afterwards, probably due to non-skaters being turned off by that. Well if this is going to a game for the hardcore skaters, EA needs to push it to the smallest details. Aside from the basics like selecting your truck brand and size, I want the ability to tighten or loosen them to varying degrees the way you want it. I want a selection of different wheel brands and sizes, different griptape brands and exactly how you want it cut maybe different bearing brands and types, to pick from hard or soft bushings, to even pick the color of your hardware. I want an experience like walking into a skateshop and picking out the parts you want, then putting it all together. I want all these parts to truly affect how you skate, like in real life. You buy the cheap-ass ABEC 3 rated bearings for eight bucks in the game, the way your in-game board skates with them reflects that.
January 16th, 2007 at 6:28 am
In order for this game to completely sell me, EA needs to put a really deep board set-up aspect into the game. Remember in the first Tony Hawk game when you could select if you wanted loose or tight trucks, which would affect your skater’s turning abilities the way you wanted it to? This feature was taken out in all the games afterwards, probably due to non-skaters being turned off by that. Well if this is going to a game for the hardcore skaters, EA needs to push it to the smallest details. Aside from the basics like selecting your truck brand and size, I want the ability to tighten or loosen them to varying degrees the way you want it. I want a selection of different wheel brands and sizes, different griptape brands and exactly how you want it cut maybe, different bearing brands and types, to pick from hard or soft bushings, to even pick the color of your hardware. I want an experience like walking into a skateshop and picking out the parts you want, then putting it all together. I want all these parts to truly affect how you skate, like in real life. You buy the cheap-ass ABEC 3 rated bearings for eight bucks in the game, the way your in-game board skates with them reflects that.
January 16th, 2007 at 6:34 am
call me a dum Bass but i’ve played the new nintendo johnson and it is great. the johnson sports are pretty fun the boxing is cool. call me a deuce satchel but i will get the ps3 some time when I won’t laugh ot the price. tee hee!
January 16th, 2007 at 6:46 am
Oh Yeah gamer for liffs: you probably think the wireless and “mofotherboard” suck on the ps3 wait till you find out were memory is stored, this is so faabuulaaauth in the hard disc drive aka the HDD. do you pwn an xb360 or a pc? anyone tell us what a mother board does? they win a one handed clap from me huraaay! Raff keep on skating on! word, peace out, catch you on the flipside yo!
January 16th, 2007 at 6:50 am
u can see the same trailer on youtube shows it on the 360 be better on the ps3
January 16th, 2007 at 9:40 pm
As a sidenote: EA is not the developer, just the publisher. There are not many games that EA made originally, most of them are hacked together by acquired studios.
EA Black Box once was called Black Box. Then they made NFSHP2 and EA bought them.
Thanks for reading. Now go skate, bitches.
January 17th, 2007 at 5:54 am
to what oncorn or voncorn, i dont know what it spells. but that is a good idea about the choices you make will change the feel. but there has to be a roadblock to gettin the superswiss 6 balls to the japanese generic abec 3’s because you know what everyone who is in the kno about the scene is goin to pick. me myself am a fan on the blackpanther 7’s. fast but not to fast and smooth as a baby’s rump. but back to the point. most likely a money issue should be presented in the game. contest money, hustlin games of Skate, shit like that to be able to afford the good shit. And FinDop knows his shit. me my self a little late night on the mini tonight. peace
January 17th, 2007 at 10:10 am
True, i never could be assed with expensive bearings like Lucky 7’s.Mainly cause the streets in my home town suck. I just stuck with the nmb abec 3’s. Great when their worn in.
January 18th, 2007 at 4:56 am
does anybody know which cities are gonna be skateable in this game?
January 18th, 2007 at 4:58 am
cuz that looks like BOSTON BABY. PATS numbah 1!!!
January 18th, 2007 at 6:08 am
most likely the most skated and skateable cities. cities that dont need ramps in the middle of no where to skate. like new orleans, except for now that huge natural trans that brent 180 on the cover of Skateboarder. im hopen bosten, houston, vancouver, miami, and of course barcelona, and philly.
January 18th, 2007 at 6:24 am
Too bad Atchley landed straight into the water, according to the description of the photo.
And speaking of magazines, I got the newest EGM in the mail yesterday. And under the 2007 preview cover story, Skate is listed as a fall release. It’s probably gonna come out in late October right along with the new Tony Hawk game. Fock!
January 18th, 2007 at 9:14 am
it was suposed to be released in the f*ckin spring. whatever, there just tweakin the shit up. makin it pretty.
January 19th, 2007 at 2:17 am
germanskaterdude Says:
January 16th, 2007 at 9:40 pm
As a sidenote: EA is not the developer, just the publisher. There are not many games that EA made originally, most of them are hacked together by acquired studios.
EA Black Box once was called Black Box. Then they made NFSHP2 and EA bought them.
Thanks for reading. Now go skate, bitches.
Just wanted to point out that this game IS developed by EA Blackbox. Not sure where our german friend got the idea it was only published by EA…
…now go Skate!
January 19th, 2007 at 6:42 am
This game’s gunna be SICK!!! i used to skate… but i played Tony hawk til UNDERGROUND, but now they just blow!!! the mo-cap…to un fuckin realistic, i doubt u can do 15 different flip tricks in real life, SKATE will make THAWK get on his knees, and ROB DYRDEK, OHIO REPRESENT!!!
January 20th, 2007 at 9:25 am
Bonecrusher, i hope you meant 15 tricks in a combo. cause i have well over 15 different flip tricks. no disrespect so dont fly off the handle but its well more than possible to have more than 15 flip tricks. heres a list of mine, and everybody who is jelious cause you havent been riding that long or are just retarded shut the hell up and listen. 4 1/2 years of skating can get you a grip of this. ok- kickflip, heelflip, bs180kickflip,fs180kickflip,bs180heelflip, shuvit,pop shuv, variel flip, variel heelflip, tre flip, bs bigspin,fs bigspin, bigspin flip, nollie flip, nollie heel, ss(switch stance) ss flip, ss heel, ss variel heel, ss shuvit, ss pop shuv, fakie flip, fakie heel, fakie fs heel, fakie bs heel, fakie fs flip, fakie bs flip, fakie variel flip, late shuv, fakie bigspin flip, fakie tre flip, fakie bs bigspin, fakie fs bigspin, nollie fs bigspin, fakie bigspin heel, thats already 34 different tricks that can be landed with in 1-3maybe4 trys. anything after 5 cant really be counted. and i didnt even add just regular spins which would of added another 8 or more. sorry if anyone gets pissy cause they think its impossible. but skating during the winter in a garage everyday really improves your trick quota. plus im mostly tech so that helps.
January 20th, 2007 at 9:29 am
im mean shit that fag TK went pro 3 1/2 years riding. and that guy sucks. he has his moments but he didnt deserve or had the talent to go pro.
January 20th, 2007 at 9:30 am
im mean shit that fag TK went pro 3 1/2 years riding. and that guy sucks. he has his moments but he didnt deserve or had the talent to go pro. and in seek and destroy 2. when he heeled the santa monica triple set. i hope he knew that koston did it like a year before him switch.
January 21st, 2007 at 11:04 pm
Yea I give EA 10 points i think this game gona kick THPS ass tho i am a THPS fan…If u dont know a F**k about skateboarding u shouldent say nothing bad about this game…I have waited for a skateboarding game like this sence THPS2
January 22nd, 2007 at 4:32 am
TONY HAWK PROJECT 8 ON PS2 IS PRBBLY THE WORSTE ONE YET!! GO AHEAD WHIT UR BAD SELVES EA!!!
IM BUYING THIS GAME!
January 24th, 2007 at 6:24 am
Raff can skate. i cant even land an ollie up a 5 inch curb. need more time on ye olde 7 ply also need to go snowboardriding soon! Don’t mention thp8 as comp to this game (skate) because I’ll squirt sam adams black lager out my nose. For all those in the need to know category Thrasher: Skate and destroy was better than any thps game, and is better than Project 8 (#2 duece-tastic). Don’t let me hear any props for thp8 Tony should stick to skating and whatever else he does and stay away from thps’s
January 24th, 2007 at 4:24 pm
So yeah. We always slate EA because they’re un-imaginitive, bland and they just pump out the same old crap. but then again, they have produced games such as SSX, Medal of Honour and what about The Sims? People always seem to forget that EA are (for all their shite) a good games company. They’re good at what they do. They have potential. If they just stopped pumping out the same titles like FIFA, Madden etc over and over again, they might actually gain some respect in the gaming community.
This Skate game seems to have mixed opinions. Certainly, the Tony Hawk series has dominated the skating game market for the past seven or so years now. It’s time for a change. I mean, if there’s no competition in the market, then Activision are gonna get lazy and revert back to the days of THAW… We don’t want that, now do we?
I think it’s great that EA have come along and made such a realistic game to portray a real perspective of Skating. Grinding a rail is hard. The Ollie takes weeks, in some cases months to master. The only other game that has really portrayed real life skating was Thrasher. Ever since then it’s been Tony Hawk, Tony Hawk, Tony Hawk and I, for one, am starting to get annoyed.
Although THP8 is a fantastic looking game, we were promised total control of the board, real world physics and all the rest of it. I went out and bought it and was severely dissapointed. Sure, it looked pretty, but when I played it I can still land a 1080 out of a quarter pipe no problem. It’s just too un-realistic for me. I’m bored of it now. The same old challenges, the same old high scores, collect the secret tape, collect the combo letters.
I hope EA wipe the floor with Activision. the game’s still to be properly demo’d and it’s probably still in the prelim stages which is why there really aren’t any real in game trailers yet.
I have every faith in this game. It’s gonna take extreme sports games to a new level of realism and enjoyment. And when you’re done making a nollie-flip noseslide down a 8 star rail look good in SKATE, you can always pop THP8 in and pull of a 1,000,000 point combo…
January 24th, 2007 at 7:23 pm
What? Fifa madden and nhl aren’t bad titles? Thats just what the “nerds” think. How bout the others?
January 25th, 2007 at 9:07 am
Shit it took me more than a year to ollie on a curb. but i think since i stuck with it for that long with no learning i was quickly blessed with progresion. im living prof of practice makes perfect or at least better. If you stick with anything and bite the shit, youll pull out in the long run.
Madden isnt a bad game, i like to play it even though i f*ckin hate jocks, jocks are the new nerds and skateboarders are now the new jocks. If you can skateboard you can take the Football team captain’s pussy away anyday. Truth. but its not a bad game but just lacks inavativeness. Theres not too much you can do to those kind of games except graphics. but you dont have to buy them every year. i got 2003 and im totally kool with it.
Skate will feel the same as watchin a skate vid. Ill be stoked on every flip and grind i land. just like i do watchin appleyard’s nasty hardflip 5-0’s or rowley blastin down a drainage ditch. Its going to help bring the true side of our love to the mainstream and let ignerant bitch’s kno that we cant backflip on flat, finally i might stop gettin asked to do a ho ho plant impossible. no seriously, ive been asked that. its f*ckin rediculous.
Im kinda glad its not out yet though, one you know its goin to be good cause its takin them long and there not pressured to hurry up and ruin it. two im glad cause i dont got to get jelous cause i aint got not 360 yet. hopefully by release ill have one. sorry ps3 lovers but the 360’s cheap and has an awesome online and good games. maybe in a couple years ill get a ps3.
peace
January 26th, 2007 at 7:22 am
what sucks is im not spending a but load of money on another platform the ps3 and xbox 360 are for those rich pricks that can just go out and get it i would love to have one but thats way expensive fuckin 600 dollers i could buy a fuckin dimebag darrel guitar for that price maybe two so i might buy one….when the prices lower way down but looks like a good game i skate and im good and i would loke to see a realistic game
January 28th, 2007 at 3:15 am
Pfft. I don’t know if I can justify buying a PS3. So far, the only two reasons I can give for buying it are these:
1) The controller. The PS controller design is perfect. I don’t like the Xbox 360’s controller.
2) I want Assassin’s Creed and MGS4.
I already have Blu Ray, so I don’t need that. The 360 looks increasingly more appealing as time goes on.
And besides, there’s nothing on the PS3 just yet that gives me the same satisfaction as chainsawing my way through Gears of War…
This is Sony’s last console. Guaranteed.
January 28th, 2007 at 3:16 am
Pfft. I don’t know if I can justify buying a PS3. So far, the only two reasons I can give for buying it are these:
1) The controller. The PS controller design is perfect. I don’t like the Xbox 360’s controller.
2) I want Assassin’s Creed and MGS4.
I already have Blu Ray, so I don’t need that. The 360 looks increasingly more appealing as time goes on. I already have a Wii.
And besides, there’s nothing on the PS3 just yet that gives me the same satisfaction as chainsawing my way through Gears of War…
This is Sony’s last console. Guaranteed.
January 28th, 2007 at 7:01 am
hey is this game going 2 be on PSP becos if it isn’t i can’t be bothered getting it 4 PS3 or even getting a PS3
January 28th, 2007 at 1:54 pm
Assassin’s Creed and MGS4
are coming on the 360.
So are: Resident Evil 5, GTA 5, Alan Wake, Halo3 thats the reason to get a 360.