The best skateboard game ever made?

The city reacts to your actions
Skate's 'story' is about you, a fresh-faced unknown skater, becoming a big name. But how you become a famous face isn't pre-determined. There's two opposite methods to your development, but you can mix the whole range of activities as you improve your local standing

For example, you can enter illegal downhill races and skate in banned spots, or enter competitions and impress local pros to earn your stripes. Or, you could just enter competitions and skate as many off-limits areas as possible.

While you go about your own destiny, the people and traffic will react to you. Jay Balmer, gameplay producer on Skate, gave his own personal anecdote, where skate-hating taxis will swerve to intimidate you.

Bag yourself enough trophies and you'll get recognised, perhaps gathering gangs of heavily-eyeshadowed groupies when hitting a local skating spot - or you might just make everyone else jealous with your silky skills. Fame or infamy, it's up to you.

March 8, 2007

The city reacts to your actions
Skate's 'story' is about you, a fresh-faced unknown skater, becoming a big name. But how you become a famous face isn't pre-determined. There's two opposite methods to your development, but you can mix the whole range of activities as you improve your local standing

For example, you can enter illegal downhill races and skate in banned spots, or enter competitions and impress local pros to earn your stripes. Or, you could just enter competitions and skate as many off-limits areas as possible.

While you go about your own destiny, the people and traffic will react to you. Jay Balmer, gameplay producer on Skate, gave his own personal anecdote, where skate-hating taxis will swerve to intimidate you.

Bag yourself enough trophies and you'll get recognised, perhaps gathering gangs of heavily-eyeshadowed groupies when hitting a local skating spot - or you might just make everyone else jealous with your silky skills. Fame or infamy, it's up to you.

March 8, 2007

Ben Richardson is a former Staff Writer for Official PlayStation 2 magazine and a former Content Editor of GamesRadar+. In the years since Ben left GR, he has worked as a columnist, communications officer, charity coach, and podcast host – but we still look back to his news stories from time to time, they are a window into a different era of video games. 

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