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Skate was released on the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 last year, and not it has been announced by EA for the Ninendo Wii and DS. The Wii version will support the balance board, so that could be interesting.
There will be no online mode, but there will be multi-card play on the DS version.
Pro skateboarder Tony Hawk has pretty much had it all his own way for years in the skateboarding videogame genre - that was until Electronic Arts sprung a surprise with Skate for the Sony PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Xbox 360 last year. Its analog control-focused trickery gave Tony a kick up the arse for once but its biggest draw (the controls) meant it wasnt suited to either the Nintendo Wii or Nintendo DS default input. Now, however, EA has announced Skate It, a Wii and DS spin-off, set to give owners of Nintendo consoles the skating fix theyve been waiting for.
EAs Scott Blackwood promised (Scouts honour) that his team werent going to bring Skate to Nintendo platforms until they were convinced they could do it justice, so heres hoping they live up to that. The EA man also revealed that Skate will support the Wii Balance Board (People that try it really seem to be digging it, and that the Nintendo DS version of the game will support multi-cart no full-blown online mode to speak of, however.
Additional sources:
- via uk.wii.ign.com
- via qj.net






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