but. still. has. a. dumb. full. stop. after. its. name.
Punctuation chaos aside, the skateboarding game looks like great fun. Thefootage we’ve been shownso far shows wonderful prototype sandboxes, and dozens of skaters bailing off rooftops and sailing down skyscrapers set up like a big human pachinko machine (see below). There’s also wholeplaylist of full of highlights from testersand someexcellent bail compilations. Meanwhile the developers haveregular informal chitchatsabout what’s happening in-house.
If EA’s new game can replicate some of that fun - of building your own skate park - I’ll be happy. For now, I have cautious hopes. Session was great for realistic foot physics. And the arcade high-scoring ofOlliOlli Worldgave methumb blisters. But the return of this series will hopefully offer a wacky world somewhere between hardcore sim and cartoon kickflipper. The big caveat is that this remainsa free-to-play game by EA with microtransactions, and the live service model isnot always wholesome.
All that said, I’m not doing “skate.” anymore. It’s just Skate now. I don’t care if that causes people to confuse this new entry with the original Skate from 2007. You should have thought about that when you decidedSkate 4wasn’t good enough, EA. I am sticking to the longstanding RPS principle: if your game’s name is formatted stupidly, we will either fix it, or make fun of it, or both.
