History VideoGame / Skate

* LighterAndSofter: ''Skate It'', being aimed for a more casual audience, ditches all the teen-level objectionable content in the typical games to score an E rating from the [[UsefulNotes/EntertainmentSoftwareRatingsBoard ESRB]].

* OrphanedSeries: After the shutdown of EA Black Box due to ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeed: The Run''[='=]s mediocrity, ''Skate'' has been left without a developer. With EA's focus on ''VideoGame/{{Battlefield}}'', ''Franchise/MassEffect'', ''Franchise/DragonAge'', the aforementioned ''Need for Speed'' and the entire EA Sports lineup, it's unlikely that ''Skate'' will receive an [[UsefulNotes/ConsoleWars eighth-gen]] continuation anytime soon, if at all.

* ExcusePlot: Although there are a lot of events and challenges to d, the plot seems mostly to get you to explore every part of the map.

* YouHaveResearchedBreathing: Much like ''VideoGame/TonyHawksProSkater'', the sequel gives you the ability to walk around on foot.

On June 18, 2020, EA announced during their EA Play Live online event that a new ''Skate'' game is now in development with series creative directors Cuz Parry and Deran Chung working on the project. On January 27, 2021, [[https://www.polygon.com/2021/1/27/22252237/skate-4-developer-electronic-arts-full-circle it was announced]] that a new Vancouver-based development studio called Full Circle was created to develop the game, with former Xbox Live GM Daniel McCulloch leading the team.

On June 18, 2020, EA announced during their EA Play Live online event that a new ''Skate'' game is now in development with series creative directors Cuz Parry and Deran Chung working on the project.

* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: [[ImpliedTrope If what Reda is saying in the intro is of any indication]], the protagonist of ''Skate It'' is not the same guy as the protagonist of the main installments. He certainly doesn't know them.

** Additional, their signature in the same intro is a simple "[[LetTheXBeUnknown X]]".

On June 18, 2020, EA announced during their EA Play Live online event that the fourth ''Skate'' game is now in development.

* NoNameGiven: The PlayerCharacter was never given a CanonName.

* PoliceBrutality: Security Guard Brutality: Security guards have no qualms with flat-out slamming you to the ground if it gets you out of the "No Skating" zones. They'll even go to such extreme lengths as to ''taser you'' if they can't reach you.
* PrisonEpisode: The second game's intro starts out with the {{Featureless Protagonist}} being checked out of the big house, with guest appearances from each of the pro skaters in the game.

* TakeThat: In the ads for ''Skate 2'' Eric Koston, a veteran of the ''Tony Hawk'' series, is quoted stating that it is best skating game to feature him.

** ''Skate 3'' adds a function where you can hit passing civilians with your skateboard, but annoy them too much and they'll NotSoHarmlessVillain taser you.

''Skate.'' is a skateboarding game series created by the late [[Creator/ElectronicArts EA]] Creator/BlackBox. It is most well known for its innovative "flick it" controls. The player character is a customizable HeroicMime skateboarder in the fictional city of [[BenevolentArchitecture San Vanelona]].

''Skate.'' was the first game in the series, released in September 2007. It introduced the games analog-stick-based controls. In this game, the player character begins his career in San Vanelona, recovering from being hit by a bus, becoming more famous, unlocking new areas with new challenges and activities, getting sponsors, and being featured on two magazines. A Wii and DS spin-off called ''Skate It'' was later released, with the Wii version utilizing the Balance Board.

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''Skate.'' is a skateboarding game series created by the late [[Creator/ElectronicArts EA]] Black Box. It is most well known for its innovative "flick it" controls. The player character is a customizable HeroicMime skateboarder in the fictional city of [[BenevolentArchitecture San Vanelona]].

* BenevolentArchitecture: Much of the city is designed as the perfect skateboarding city.
** While at the same time averting the trope when compared to the ''Tony Hawk'' series.
** Even worse (better?) in ''Skate 3'', where Port Carverton is pretty much a [[SkateHeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth Skate Heaven on earth]].

* LevelEditor: Comes in two flavors in the third installment. There's your standard skate park editor, with hundreds of objects to choose from and four different parks to build in, and the Object Dropper, which lets you, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin drop random objects into the game world.]]

* SarcasmMode: Reda often enters this, ''especially'' when you get nailed by a car.

* ShowsDamage: Your character starts to bruise more if you bail a lot.

* SpiritualSuccessor: An arguable one, to Electronic Arts' own ''Skate or Die!'' franchise on home computers with Konami-published games on the NES and Game Boy. ''Skate or Die 2: The Search for Double Trouble'' even had a traversable world with missions and purchaseable goods.

* SuperStrength: An glitch in the physics system can [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVf1ZWQRUQw make your character]] show bouts of this.

* TitleSequence: All three games feature ridiculous off-the-wall opening credits as well as cameos from each of the in-game professional skaters.
** The first one starts off with a nameless skater, presumed to be the player, getting [[LookBothWays smacked head-on by a bus]], and the rest of the intro shows you getting checked into a hospital. HilarityEnsues.
** The second begins with the player character getting checked out of prison. Again, HilarityEnsues.
** The third shows the process of a skateboard being created, starting at the lumber mill and ending up with the player character, moments before attempting to literally JumpTheShark... and missing by a country mile. [[invoked]]
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: In addition to the amusing reality breaking physics, ''Skate 2'' has an explicit game mode allowing you to try and inflict as much bodily harm on your player character.
** ''Skate 3'' adds a function where you can hit passing civilians with your skateboard, but annoy them too much and they'll ''[[NotSoHarmlessVillain taser you]]''.

* [[PoliceBrutality Security Guard Brutality]]: Security guards have no qualms with flat-out slamming you to the ground if it gets you out of the "No Skating" zones. They'll even go to such extreme lengths as to ''taser you'' if they can't reach you.

''Skate 2'' was the sequel to the first game, and was released in January 2009. This game added the series' "Hall of Meat" feature, where players can control themselves while bailing and receive scores for the damage caused, distance, speed, rotation, etc. It also added the ability to play as a female character. The player is released from prison several years after the first game and most of San Vanelona has been destroyed by a disaster. It was rebuilt by Mongocorp, a corporation with a very anti-skater agenda. Mongocorp has gone out of its way to discourage skating by posting security guards at many places and [[MalevolentArchitecture putting caps on rails]], making them impossible to grind. Much of the game involved freeing areas from Mongocorp's grip and unlocking new areas.[

''Skate 2'' was the sequel to the first game, and was released in January 2009. This game added the series' "Hall of Meat" feature, where players can control themselves while bailing and receive scores for the damage caused, distance, speed, rotation, etc. It also added the ability to play as a female character. The player is released from prison several years after the first game and most of San Vanelona has been destroyed by a disaster. It was rebuilt by Mongocorp, a corporation with a very anti-skater agenda. Mongocorp has gone out of its way to discourage skating by posting security guards at many places and putting caps on rails, making them impossible to grind. Much of the game involved freeing areas from Mongocorp's grip and unlocking new areas.

'''''Skate.''''' is a skateboarding game series created by the late [[Creator/ElectronicArts EA]] Black Box. It is most well known for its innovative "flick it" controls. The player character is a customizable HeroicMime skateboarder in the fictional city of [[BenevolentArchitecture San Vanelona]].

* TakeThat: In the ads for ''Skate 2'' Eric Koston, a veteran of the ''Tony Hawk'' series, is quoted stating it is best skating game to feature him.

* MadeOfIron: You can jump off of ''entire skyscrapers'' and smack face-first into the pavement, and the only thing this does to your character is give him/her a few minor bruises and cuts. However, in Hall of Meat mode, you ''do'' suffer broken bones, but this is purely cosmetic and does nothing to actually hinder your character.\\
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And it gets better. Exploit the physics engine and your character can twist, turn, and teleport in impossible ways, only to stand up afterwards unhindered and looking perfectly normal.

* [[spoiler:SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome]]: In a ''skating game'', no less, but [[spoiler:Fabio dies of unknown causes after the events of the first ''Skate''. The skaters even have a memorial built for him atop the San Van Dam.]]

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: In addition to the amusing reality breaking physics, ''Skate 2'' has an explicit game mode allowing you to try and inflict as much bodily harm on your player character

* OrphanedSeries: After the shutdown of EA Black Box due to ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeed: The Run''[='=]s mediocrity, ''Skate'' has been left without a developer. With EA's focus on ''VideoGame/{{Battlefield}}'', ''Franchise/MassEffect'', ''Franchise/DragonAge'', the aforementioned ''Need for Speed'' and the entire EA Sports lineup, it's unlikely that ''Skate'' will receive an [[ConsoleWars eighth-gen]] continuation anytime soon, if at all.

** While at the same time averting the trope when compared to the Tony Hawk series.

* JumpingTheShark: Literally, in skate 3. The very beginning has you trying to jump a shark statue, only to overshoot and utterly faceplant. The second time is more successful, and nets you a ''Thrasher'' cover. [[invoked]]

* ShoutOut: In the Hawaiian Dream DownloadableContent for Skate 3, a couple of the decks and shirts will look like a [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/45/Judas_Priest_SforV.jpg a certain mechanical hellion on a Judas Priest cover.]]
* [[spoiler:SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome]]: In a ''skating game'', no less, but [[spoiler:Fabio dies of unknown causes after the events of Skate 1. The skaters even have a memorial built for him atop the San Van Dam.]]

* TakeThat: In the ads for Skate 2 Eric Koston, a veteran of the Tony Hawk series, is quoted stating it is best skating game to feature him.
* TheCameo: One code lets you play as [[Franchise/DeadSpace Isaac Clarke]] on a futuristic skateboard in freeplay in 3.

** Skate 3 adds a function where you can hit passing civilians with your skateboard. But annoy them too much and they'll ''[[NotSoHarmlessVillain taser you]]''.
* YouHaveResearchedBreathing: Much like TonyHawksProSkater, the sequel gives you the ability to walk around on foot.

* HeyItsThatVoice: Coach Frank is Creator/JasonLee, aka [[MyNameIsEarl Earl]]. Probably chosen because he was a pro skateboarder at one point, if TheOtherWiki is to be believed.

* OrphanedSeries: After the shut-down of EA [=BlackBox=] due to [[VideoGame/NeedForSpeed Need for Speed: The Run's]] mediocrity, Skate has been left without a developer, and with EA's focus on VideoGame/{{Battlefield}}, Franchise/MassEffect, Franchise/DragonAge, the aforementioned VideoGame/NeedForSpeed and the entire EA Sports lineup, its unlikely Skate will receive a [[Main/ConsoleWars next-gen]] continuation anytime soon, if at all.