Skate
Considering the Tony Hawk video game series died flat on its face a few years back, it’s about time that Skate returned to our consoles to cement itself as the king of the skating world. If only EA would listen to the deafening screams of fans for Skate 4.
Or perhaps they have, and they, too, just have an aversion to money unless it comes via loot boxes or microtransactions… too soon?
Skate 4 is the game that’s seemingly been hinted at for so long but has never come to fruition. First, we got the #Skate4 tweets from developers (or ex-developers now in the case of the linked tweet) back in 2017.
Then, the Skate 3 servers were mysteriously turned back on last year just prior to E3. All the signs were there. We’d be kickflipping with our analog sticks around an open world again soon.
Sadly, despite everyone thinking the timeline was all coming together nicely and an announcement during EA Play last year was imminent, we got nothing. Not even a cryptic mention of it throughout the entire show.
It’s been nine long years since Skate 3 was released, and it’s about time that EA Black Box gave us all of that complex skateboarding trickery in a sprawling open world once more. Give us an extensive character creation system, tons of customization options for our boards, and multiplayer free roam so we can skate about with our friends and we’d be a very happy bunch.
