Excellent, you want get off and walk this time. That completely killed the original Skate for me, getting anywhere became frustrating.

QualityJeverage

Skate is one of my favorite games ever. I like how they literally just showed the clips that will make skate fans happy. This video shows all the things we all wanted added to skate, and its great.

paeper

Sweet, my biggest gripe with the game has been fixed, the ability to walk up stairs!

londonlad

I hope they sort out the ps3 version. The framerate on the first one was annoying to say the least with its random slowdowns.

Then there was the whole farce of the online which never worked well at all.

Fingers crossed.

finelicker

SICK SICK SICK!!!!

Shifty203

I think the real thing here is the fact that we can now MOVE OBJECTS IN THE GAME. That's gonna be great. It basically makes for ultra customization of lines.

Stratovarius

Sorry for the double post but I didn't notice Adrock4's comment there.

shak_0

LOOKS GREAT! I think I might go purchase the first one now.

RazorandBlade

I don't find myself excited by this, maybe I'm broken or something.

Ahsayuni

@mfwahwah: Okay mate will do :)

No worries about the double post.

Candlejack

Whoa, this has everything I wanted from a sequel. In fact, this trailer makes me want to play a bit of skate.
@AZRoboto: Bob Burnquist has done it in real life.

shak_0

sold.

geoffcbassett

@Candlejack: DEFINITELY look into this game. I still play skate to this day and love. Honestly, if you used to be a skater then you'll fall in love with this game, no doubt about it. I can not stress this enough: Don't let this game slip past you.

Sorry for double post*

mfwahwah

@AZRoboto: Same as in skate if you hadn't noticed.

Also, I read a bit about skate 2, and this trailer still amazes me. Pushing a picnic table really impressed me too, CANNOT wait to get my hands on this game.

mfwahwah

@FunKrusher: Heh I tried the demo but really after I quit skateboarding myself like 5 years ago I lost a bit interest in the whole game genre. But as I said this makes me want to play it again, so I'll look really close at the sequel.

Candlejack

Commencing boner in 3...2....1.....

bennifer3000

@Candlejack:

Wait did you ever play or get into Skate? If not you missed out my friend that shit was ridiculously good.

This one is looking like they stepped it up.enough to warrant the extra dough.

@AZRoboto:

Yeah because in the first one doing a 540 off a box, or that crazy ass jump while comboing tricks in the outdoor park or ESPN park is realistic right?

FunKrusher

@AZRoboto: Uh, Bob Burnquist has actually pulled that off.

Adrock4

Looks like they're trying to turn it into Tony Hawk. What's with the whole going around a loop with a gap on top? I thought they wanted to keep it realistic?

AZRoboto

@jamosthefifth: Surprisingly it only really takes Skateboarding to make a skateboarding game fun.

Tony Hawk's still hasn't learned this.

Burguois of Arabia

Last skateboarding game I thoroughly enjoyed was THPS3. I tried some along the way, e.g. Project 8, but none really did anything for me.

Didn't bother with skate to be honest.

So when I say that this trailer makes me want to have skate 2, it's saying a lot. I want to have skate 2.

Candlejack

The most annoying thing about that trailer was the animations were still too robotic. Especially at the end, do a trick, hold still perfectly for 2 seconds, then let it go and land it. Too soon to ask for better (procedural?) animation in a skateboarding game?

Rob Phelps

@FunKrusher: Yes, I!

fuck, though. Lip tricks? Stepping off the board? Boneless? Airwalks? Foot control during grabs? Hooooly shit.

Poisonous Taoist

nice you can get off your board

bigsamboni

Oh god yes.

MASOCHIST187

Rob Dyrdek is my friend.

archibaldleech

THE CHAMP IS BACK

I bet Tony is in the office with the devs on his franchise and it's like a clip out of an old Kung Fu Movie when the students all get their ass whipped by the Evil Master, and then their masters walks in at the last minute when it's all about to seemingly end and the bad guy goes:

OH MY GOD NOT YOU!!!

FunKrusher

Wow, this game DOES look pretty cool. I especially loved how it sticks very close to the look and feel of the real thing. I guess it doesn't take million point combos and stupid story arcs to make a skateboarding video game fun eh?

jamosthefifth

Sold.

Crosswayboy

does anyone else think that skate and tony hawk should come out in alternating years so that they have more time to bring more features to the game. Skate landed a huge blow to the previously unstoppable tony hawk franchise but if it is constantly exploited every year it will fall into the same trap as tony hawk

owen99

Oh man I loved Skate. And by the looks of it, Skate.2 will continue the streak. Plus you can walk!

Ra is on House

Man, that video totally made me excited for this game. I liked the first, this one looks to completely trump it.

ZENimilian

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT

(sorry that wasn't constructive. I'm just so excited :P)

Canuckssleepinthenude

That looks very nice. Enjoyed the first one for the brief time I spent with it. Looks like a purchase of Skate 2 will be in order.

Zips

no release date? not even a general idea (i.e. holidays)?

loved the first one, in fact, still do. was playing a spot battle online last weekend with some randoms who were cool guys (so rare on Live).

can't wait.

kromekoran

Wow, this looks awesome! Soundtrack was great too. Keeping my eye on this for sure.

nflsonic

@owen99: I think They could just stop doing Tony Hawk's games ! Skate is so much better in every way, they should just givee up.

Shteve

MORE!?!?!?! P-ROD

Hellion86

i love the fact that they used new Public Enemy music in this trailer. I think that might have excited me more than the video itself.

knifey-spoonie

Man, I hope this runs well on the PS3 this time. I was thoroughly impressed by Skate, but the frame glitches and ugliness of the PS3 version caused me not to buy it :(

Aex

I just hope there is more use of the buttons, the stick was cool for a while but the 360 stick rips my thumbs up after an hour. Well if the PS3 version is on par then ill just get that as the dualshock stick is very soft in comparison.

Molockian

@archibaldleech:

hey man you dropped something.

*hands name to archibaldleech*

gadjet

@Lazlo:

yep. if you notice the dates for all the comments, there all from august first.

Ragnarok2103

the first one was good but it was awkward and glitchy this looks pretty promising

souljacker86

Didn't you post this same identical article once already? Maybe I'm having deja vu but I swear this identical video and commentary post was up on Friday, or Saturday or something.

Lazlo

I loved the first one and I can't wait to get my hands on this.

Altersparck

i still need to get the first one. i'm waiting for a sale.

VixDiesel

woooyeah!! skate 2 ftw !!

SuPerNaKe

@xfile102: It's clearly spelled out in the video twice. >_>

DiscipleofJamzy

*above the stairs :P

No edit featuring is murder on a chronic typo-ist like myself...

SG_Mahonay

I know the first one was sweet, so I have high hopes for #2, but they should have waited until the game is further along in development before releasing a trailer. Those animations looked atrocious, much worse than the first game, even.

ghettosmurf

The moment I knew they were fixing it so you could actually get off your board, so you can run up stairs with out having to traverse 5 city blocks just to get to a spot that's about the stairs that you're standing in front of, I knew I was buying Skate 2, hahah. Also, this time it sounds like you won't get that insanely annoying loading screen every time you warp back to a session marker. That used to drive me insane enough to stop playing for a while. So some huge fixes. They look like they're really perfecting what they did in the first game which sounds gravy to me. Also, in recent interviews they've been hinting that they've been hiding some big things they've done with the game. The word "epic" was thrown around a lot. So you know, it's got to be good...

SG_Mahonay

Pretty much just fixed everything that was wrong with the original.

The original did piss all over the whole TH series though, expecting more pissing.

Gambia

@xfile102: Harder Than You Think by Public Enemy. Awesome song.

Rob

@Ragnarok2103:
Then why is it reappearing in such a strange manor? And why does the page post date read today?...this must be the nexus of the universe!!

Lazlo

"and the fact that the game had a video editor that made it stand out from its rival Tony Hawk franchise."

Tony Hawk's Proving ground had a video editor that was more advanced than skate's ....

vickissv3

OMG!! What is the Song from the Trailer???!! That is the Shit!!

xfile102

@DiscipleofJamzy: Thanks Bro. I was watching other elements of the video. Didn't even notice. Thanks for the polite reminder. I ws looking at the uber robotic movements on the characters

xfile102

@mfwahwah: Yeah that's what impressed me most about the trailer, too. Yes, you can get off and walk now, but how could that not be an option after all the comments regarding the last game? EA would be retarded not to take that criticism to heart. So I was expecting it...I think everyone that played the first game was expecting it. I wasn't expecting the ability to move objects into place for tricks, and I'm not fully convinced that was gameplay. Could be an intro to a challenge. What I didn't see was a darkslide, which is hopefully an available trick.

Bluecell

I saw this the other day, I feel like you guys are pushing this skate thing a little to much. Did someone pay you to put this up again?

ffmusicdj

@VixDiesel: Skate is 40 now, not sure if you know. I thought it was still full price (60 dollars ::Shudder::) but while I was doing some browsing I noticed they dropped to 40.
But yeah a sequel that improves!? awesome, Probably most excited about the ability to walk.

RazorandBlade

Maaaaaaaaaaaan this looks pretty sick, glad that they've added the function to get off the board, it's annoying as hell when you cant get up a nice stair set to trick down it

Maffoo

Sweeet. Now it looks like you can get off your board and move stuff around which is cool.

lenandude

Hey, is that a girl about halfway in? If so, between this and Facebreaker it seems EA FINALLY fixed their create-a-character. Good on them.

HikariOblivion

Please darkslides, please. Or better yet, dark tail slides.

Zombie_Belvedere

PS:
I like how they allow to not only get off the board, but it doesn't hurt your current line like in the Tony Hawk series (example: at the 00:46 mark, the skater did a grab move and pushed off the rail to continue his line).

Killer_WaLrUs

Finally, lip tricks! I hope they make the final challenges less of a controller-throwing moment. Stupid videos.

dunetiger reads kotaku, seems pleased

@Bluecell: P.S. I just went to the skate website to see if my videos were still there, and there's two other (sort of) teasers there for Skate.2. More like videos to feed the hype machine, but they're entertaining nonetheless.

Bluecell

Ill

flandria

I so getting this. I got hooked to the first Skate after watching half of a trailer and knew that it was going to send the skateboarding/action sport genre further then where Tony Hawk has taken it. There is still a lot of love for the Tony Hawk series in my heart but I couldn't get over that game. I could feel myself looking at rails and gaps in real life and just thinking what I could do with my virutal skater. There have been very few games that have left me wanting to continue playing even when I wasn't even near my console. Skate 2 looks like a strong step in the right direction; I especially like how you can just push tables and benches where ever you need them to enhance a spot. This is going to be the sports game of the year.

Killer_WaLrUs

I heart this game so bad. I get such joy out of pulling tricks, and even riding simple but interesting line across the parks. Awesome awesome awesome.

The only think I thought when I first watch the trailer was "Oh damn it no girls again.." but then a chick popped up in the trailer.

Sweet. Now I'm super super happy. (Not in a crazy militant feminist way, but I missed having an avatar of my own sex.)

slavefaith

Eh? I was actually turned off by the trailer. Everything seemed too damn fast and over the top compared to Skate's sluggish and amateur feel. I could be wrong and I hope I am, especially since it's only a hard cut teaser.

i_9

this looks awesome! you can walk up stairs! that was practically my only gripe with skate!

EA, keep making games like this and Mirrors Edge plz k thx

pandafresh

theres something about skateboarding games these days that i just cant get into. I think their too realistic now as funny as that may sound. I prefer some over the topness like flying 50 feet in the air. my favorite tony hawk game was underground, nothing beat grinding above the kiss concert :/, or jumping over that helicopter in story mode.

MINIBOSS

Ugh...I just read the Joystiq preview, and apparently, the PS3 version will once again be below average. At the build they were shown (while it isn't the final build) the Xbox version was running at nearly 60FPS, whereas the PS3 version could barely hold 30.

WTF BLACK BOX?? I figured you guys would've gotten your head around it after the first time, but no. Why even continue to develop games for...oh wait, that's right, you're an EA company.

CitizenInsane27

@Candlejack: "Didn't bother with skate to be honest."

Thats why the last skateboarding game you enjoyed was THPS3 ;)

Sathias

If you can create a female skater then it'll keep my gf happy, if it has the 4 player party mdoe it'll keep my housemates happy, the sooner it comes out the more chance it has of keeping ME happy.

I want. Nao.

CanaryWundaboy

They obviously couldn't show this, but the main thing I wanted in the sequel is the ability to position a stationary camera for recording purposes. This would make the skate videos even better. I hope they made the video section of their site better.

gatekepa

Can't wait, but seriously EA... Fix the replay mode! This game DEMANDS more in the way of photo/video capturing than what you gave us before. It was depressing to strike an awesome photo-worthy moment, only to have 4 of the 5 angles you're given to choose from be in the exact same spot(or simply not even putting your character in frame). And the video player didn't even RECORD the clips, but rather just tried to recreate the replay in-game... what was once an awesome pedestrian collision now plays back with my character cartwheeling over an invisible force that was once a security officer. Your photo gallery and replay collection was so hampered by loading that what I thought would be one of the game's best assests was just a pain in the ass.

eastshore4

Why are the fish-eye sections of the trailer just cropped with curved edges and not actually drawn with fish-eye geometry? I'm totally not buying this game if it can't deliver the hot real time lens simulating action I crave. Hop to it, Black Box!

hinges

The ability to get off your board ALONE necessitates a purchase for me. The frustration of navigating simple things in is what made me quit the first game. (That and the sometimes choppy framerate, which I also hear is fixed)

Laxcat

Finally you can walk!!! Skate was insanely difficult, but also in that sense very rewarding when you finally could skate that line!

0tak1n9

Skate was incredible, one of the most pleasant gaming experiences of last year. It makes my friends and I literally laugh at Tony Hawk's games now. The days when THPS was innovative, fun, and new are just so... distant now.

But please. Guys. For seriously. Local free roaming multiplayer. I will give you people my LIMB for that. Well, a toe, at least. But please? Pretty please?

Mister Adequate

Funny how most people seem to like the aspect of walking more than doing new difficult combinations on the board. I'm one of them. Getting off the skateboard to ascend a flight of stairs without having to skate around a whole block? Awesomenessessess.

Aglet

@dunetiger reads kotaku, seems pleased: you know Skate 1 has liptricks right?

rainofwalrus

@Candlejack: check out my SKATE videos to get you STOKED for the sequel. Hell, after watching you may just buy the original!

youtube.com/rainofwalrus

rainofwalrus

They seem to have made the best skateboarding game even better.

Tizlor

The only real problems i had with the first one were no running. And doing video. I had so many times where I wanted to just tape a friend doing his tricks and it was a real pain. If the are making a video mode or something of that sort, then Im all in, I loved the casual feel of the first game. You could be competitive or just have your friends around you having a blast. It looks like they may have an option for you to be the cameraman which has me sold.

coolfelix

i just hope EA gets the online right on PS3. they did agreat job with burnout. i hope th trend continues.

now all i need is a release date!!!! ive run SkATE1 t the ground. please tell me at least by DEC EA!!!

zanzibarlegend

I was never able to perform a hippie flip in the first skate. It looks like it might be easier in this one with the amount of distance he got above the board.

JenovasWitness

AHHHH MANNN! when skate came out on the 360, it made me forget about all those shitty thps repetitive experiences we've been having for the last 6 years! this game blasts thps to the ground. can't wait for skate 2!!!!

airdom

The only thing left this game needs is a custom music option. I liked a lot of the first skate's music, but I'd love to throw in my own.

Please, EA, you're on a roll here!

AsWater

OH GOD YES

InsidiousTuna

*Stairs*

w991

Seeing as how you are now able to get off your board and walk, Instant buy for me. Those stares and all other high things were a bitch to get too.

w991

I was kind of hoping the trailer would show something new. I couldn't even tell a difference from the two games.

hulud86

I don't normally like skating games (a.k.a Tony Hawk). But I really enjoyed the fist skate and am thinking I might pick this one up.

TheHallowHero

That sh#t was sick.....is that Chuck D on the soundtrack? Wow.......can't wait, anymore news on how to use the board on Wii? Wow.......

SahibaHog

@Rob Phelps:

There probably are elements to their animation that are procedural when it comes to physics/animation on animation blending. I think if the transitions were slowed down a little it would look less robotic, but change the speed at which these guys can get back on their board and guess what... Just made actually LANDING tricks a whole lot harder (since it takes longer to get into the safe landing pose).

Just my 2 cents anyway. Until we move away from state-machine-based-blending-skeletal animation, we are going to see this jerkiness in our game characters for a long time to come. Only new animation technology can help us with that. At least these things aren't keyframed animations anymore. :P

Skullbonez

I agree with owen99, skating isn't a popular sport among the masses to warrant releasing a video game about it every year. Consider football and soccer where there is a world wide fan base that truly follows the video game series (even during the world cup when two Fifa editions are released).

smeloa