The current king of skateboarding titles, the SKATE™ series, is dropping the demo of its third iteration today. The demo has a bunch of single and multiplayer modes to try out before the games drops on May 11th. I have been a fan of the franchise since the first of the series and really had not had much fun with skateboarding titles before this since Tony Hawk's Pro Skater II.
Some of the new features for the title, as proclaimed by the official site, include:
- Everyone Can SKATE. - New skate fans can learn the ins and outs of skateboarding with Coach Frank in the all new skate.
- Team Up. Throw Down. - Work together to take on challenges and progress together through the career campaign or slay all suckers in head-to-head competitive battles for bragging rights. Players can keep tabs on the happenings of their teammates and rivals with Skate.Feed, the all-new game and web social network.
- New City, More Tricks, More SKATE - Say hello to darkslides, underflips, and the all-new skate mecca, Port Carverton - featuring three unique districts (University, Industrial, and Downtown) full of plazas, skate parks, backyard pools, and endless lines. This is a true skaters paradise.
- Build a Brand, Become a Mogul - Form teams and rise up to become a skate industry mogul by selling boards. From completing online challenges to creating skate parks to having your graphics downloaded, almost everything skaters do in the game counts towards their progression.
- skate.Create and Share - Returning favorites skate.Reel and skate.Graphics are back. The all-new Skate.Park is an open canvas for players to create their dream plaza or mega-ramp park. Once created, they can share their masterpieces with the world by uploading them directly from their console.
- Always Room For Meat - Hall of Meat is back and gnarlier than ever. Gamers can brutalize their skaters in the harshest ways possible with all-new total body control bails. Get ready for carnage that is sure to make players cringe.
Coach Frank's Skate School:
"Don't know how to skate?? No problem! Coach Frank will take you from zero to hero faster than you can say "1-800-COACH-FRANK." Coach Frank is played by the usually spot-on Jason Lee.
You can preorder the game on the XBox 360 and PS3 on Amazon for about $56.99, saving a monster three bucks which you can use to buy about 68.43 Microsoft Points when the new XBox 360 System Update drops.*
*Fictional system update made up just now as I am still trying to decipher the ancient code of Microsoft's transaction system.
