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In Electronic Arts' Skate, you create a skater and complete various photo and video challenges to get sponsors and become well known in the skating world as you appear on magazines such as Skateboard Mag and Thrasher.
5 ★ (14)
4 ★ (20)
3 ★ (4)
2 ★ (0)
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Just too difficult for me

So to get two things out of the way, I am a skateboarder in real life and I do have a long history playing the Tony Hawk series. I really do greatly appreciate what skate. tried to bring to the genre… Read more

Skate. An amazing new skating franchise

Skate is a great addition to the plethora of skating games that are available now. The trick system is great, fluid and creates a very easy to play game that takes time to master, but is easy to pick… Read more

skate.

The first skateboarding game that really nailed the feeling of riding a skateboard with the limitations of a controller. Landing even simple tricks in this game feels extremely rewarding in comparison… Read more

Reinventing the way you skate in a video game.

Skating in the video game industry was largely run by the monopoly of the Tony Hawk series, that is until EA unveiled skate., a revolutionary way to simulate skating in a video game. And boy, did they… Read more

One of the Best Skating Games Out There

Let me start off first by saying, I love skateboarding and I've always loved the videogames that are associated with it. I've played Tony Hawk for years now and once I picked up the game, Skate, I was… Read more

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A good game, but at times flawed

Skate. is a skateboarding video game, where you design your own character, and enter a big city, where you can skate wherever you want, provided that you unlocked the locations in Career Mode first. T… Read more

Some clumsy design choices and technical issues brings it down.

First off. I´m not very into skating. I occasionally put on the Extreme Sports channel to enjoy some tricks, I can name most of the tricks you can do on a board, I listen to some punkrock and skatepun… Read more

Skate is a great game to play despite some flaws.

Skate is EA’s first entry into the skateboarding genre, and it does a pretty good job of reviving the genre after the Tony Hawk series went downhill after THUG. I wouldn’t say Skate is for everyone, b… Read more

A great start to a new generation of skateboarding games.

I think its time for a new skateboarding game. The last other skateboarding game apart from the TH series was simpsons skateboarding which i would rather not talk about.... So Ea bring out this game c… Read more

EA spreads it's wings over the extreme sports genre.

Set in a vast, vibrant, sunny skater paradise that never rains, snows, thunders, or, even has nightfall, Skate takes away the gimmicky cities in past skateboard games (can you guess which?), that alwa… Read more

EA spreads it's wings over the extreme sports genre.

Set in a vast, vibrant, sunny skater paradise that never rains, snows, thunders, or, even has nightfall, Skate takes away the gimmicky cities in past skateboard games (can you guess which?), that alwa… Read more

Skate... Truly phenomenal

This is a game that i really like to play whenever I'm either pissed off or just want to mellow out. It's a great, great stress reliever. This game isn't incredibly fun off the bat it's kind of annoyi… Read more

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“Mommy’s all right. Daddy’s all right. They just seem a little weird.” Every time I hear it, the song brings me back to the two or three glorious weeks playing skate on my 360. By far on of the best s… Read more

Skate is a fun game with fresh ideas

The Good: The new Flick-it control system makes it feel like you are really doing the tricks - Ok Graphics, but still almost everything on the Xbox 360 has good graphics - You can share your footage w… Read more

Breath of fresh air

I wasn't realy sure if i new if skate was ganna be a good game. I first saw gameplay for it online and i felt it looked to much like a sim and was going to be a tony hawk rip-off. I also thought that… Read more

Peace Tony.

For nearly a decade, the Tony Hawk series has been running unopposed as the only worthy skateboarding title. EA's skate. was looking to change that last September, and for the most part, it succeeded… Read more

skate. delivers on its name. You will skate in this game...

...so it is a good thing that EA got that mechanic right in this game. For a rookie franchise, this is actually a rather good first effort. In .skate, you'll play as a skater working their way up the… Read more

Skate.

I thought skate was a great new take on the old skating games. The controls were intuitiave and really made you want to learn new tricks. And although that was the focus, the gameplay that came out of… Read more

Skate is a perfect blend of new breed in the skating genre.

As we all know there has been a big named star called Tony Hawk that has laid waste to all skateboard game clones. Luckily Tony can't touch this game. Why? Because it's a different view on skating. In… Read more

Can the new kid on the block take down Tony Hawk?

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Skate manages to dethrone the king.

Since its premiere in 1999 the Tony Hawk series has been the king of the extreme sports genre. Not only did it make skating more mainstream but it helped revolutionize the extreme sports genre which u… Read more

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