You would wonder why this would be a decent topic for a core skateboarder to read? Well, let me remind you that we all eventually get injured or just slightly exhausted from skateboarding and need to take a brake. But for us skateboard freaks, that need to be doing something with a board 24 hours a day, a skateboard game isn’t a bad idea when you just can’t jump on a real board.

What’s the next best thing to not being able to skate? Play a skateboarding influenced game right? Well, if you haven’t already played the marvelous EA Skate game then you’re missing out. It’s super fun, the controls are a bit difficult to get used to at first but eventually you get the hang of it.

EA has recently sent out a press release notifying all of us that they are going to release Skate 2 by popular demand. As well as a newer “Skate It” game for Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS. According to EA, the “Skate it” game will be compatible with a balance board, their version of a controller. Kind of reminds me of those cheesy arcade games with the boards that swing around back and forth. Not sure how they are going to do this or what it will look like but if they send one my way I’ll be sure to try it out and let you all know…. hint, hint!

Now of course we cant forget the Tony Hawk game series that started it all. You can bet your pretty penny they will be one upping there game now as well. Seems Activision and EA are at each others throats in a war like manner when it comes to releasing the newest skateboard game. One thing is for sure, the more realistic the games get the less the impossible trickery gets. No more quadruple kickflip nose manuals to crazy smith grind combos. These games are getting more and more legit.

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Posted by Ruben 'Studdard' Najera on Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 in Skateboarding.

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