It’s been over 10 years since we bought the final sport within the hit Skate sequence, and ever since, followers of the sequence have been asking when EA will lastly return to this distinctive tackle the skateboarding style. In that point, the skating style has seen a serious resurgence. Not solely has the Tony Hawk sequence made a comeback with the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 & 2 remake, however different video games like Skater XL and Skatebird have appeared to fill on this hole out there.
However, no sport has fairly stuffed the void that Skate stuffed. Thankfully, we do know that Skate 4 is going on. First introduced approach again throughout EA Play in 2020, there was valuable little details about this extremely anticipated return to a extra grounded fashion of a skateboarding online game. Even so, there are nonetheless just a few particulars we’ve discovered about what this subsequent Skate sport will appear like and once we can hope to lastly play it. Here’s every part we learn about Skate 4. 
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Release date
Again, we’ve already been ready for over a decade — and now over a yr — since Skate 4 was formally introduced as being in growth, and but we nonetheless don’t have any indication of when will probably be carried out. Developer Full Circle hasn’t even given us a yr but, which means that we in all probability nonetheless have an extended wait forward of us earlier than we’ll be grinding and kick flipping on our consoles anytime quickly. If we needed to guess, and at this level, guessing is the most effective anybody can do, we’d hope for a late 2022 launch to maintain expectations in verify. It may come early, however higher to imagine the worst-case situation.
Platforms
With no launch date, platforms are removed from a precedence for EA to present any particulars on. But, primarily based on what now we have to imagine the sport’s timeline is, we expect it’s fairly simple to say this sport shall be on the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S consoles, on the very least. PC is sort of a wild card because the earlier video games haven’t proven up on that platform. However, EA has been making main pushes to get virtually all of their video games on PC now, so it might make sense for Skate 4 to point out up there on the similar time. As far as last-generation consoles are involved, the longer the sport takes to get a launch date, the much less doubtless will probably be a cross-generational title.
Trailer

The newest trailer (though they’re actually stretching the definition of “trailer”) we bought was in the summertime of 2021. This trailer is titled “We’re Working On It” and may as properly have been an image of an indication that stated simply that. There was no gameplay, no cutscenes, not even any bullshots or pre-rendered belongings right here. What we do see is performers doing stunts, builders telling us how early-on the sport is, and reactions to individuals who have supposedly seen the sport. Not us, although — we don’t get to see it but.
Gameplay
Without us getting the prospect to see any gameplay, now we have to do some detective work and interpretation to place somewhat image collectively of what to anticipate from Skate 4. To get the plain out of the way in which, sure, that is nonetheless going to be a skateboarding sport within the fashion of the unique video games. What’s totally different or new? Well, primarily based on some key issues the individuals within the response trailer have stated, now we have just a few nuggets to think about. First up, one individual remarked that the character would have the ability to climb. From what we are able to deduce, meaning you should have some capacity to get off your board and parkour a bit across the setting to arrange large tips or bomb down ramps from the highest of buildings.
We additionally heard somebody point out how the open-world seemed, making that a simple level so as to add to the listing. Skate 3 had zones that you just had to make use of a menu to journey between, so having one seamless playground to skate your approach by means of seems like a pure, if not overdue, evolution for the sequence.
The final clue we picked up on was somebody commenting that they didn’t need to appear like anybody else. To us, that clearly means there shall be a sturdy character creator. Character creators have been a staple in most skateboarding video games because the starting, and we love decking out our skater in cool garments and equipment and even customizing our boards. How deep the system will go and what number of choices there’ll in the end be stays to be seen, however this tiny tease makes it sound fairly substantial.
Multiplayer
Full disclosure once more, nothing about multiplayer has been introduced. That being stated, what sort of skateboarding sport, not to mention one launched after the yr 2020, would dare not embody multiplayer? The sequence has at all times had a multiplayer part, and we anticipate Skate 4 to proceed that development. Previous sport modes like 1-Up, Domination, and Own the Lot have been nice experiments in how they will adapt skateboarding into new aggressive modes which are extra advanced than simply beating one another’s scores. Hopefully, the group at Full Circle will give you much more new concepts to make this sport have some legs.
One factor we don’t need to see repeated is the way in which Skate 3 dealt with offline multiplayer, which required you to buy separate DLC as a way to play with multiple individual offline.
DLC
Skate 4 will virtually definitely have some sort of DLC, nevertheless it’s doable EA could let this sport stand by itself. However, we might guess that there shall be at the very least some sort of beauty retailer you possibly can spend actual cash on for brand spanking new equipment or clothes in your created skater. Cosmetic DLC has sort of turn into the accepted type of post-launch content material corporations can cost for, though that has by no means stopped EA from pushing that line earlier than.
New maps or extensions to the open-world are additionally very doable.
Pre-order
It ought to come as no shock that there’s no info on pre-orders for Skate 4 simply but. You may be positive they may open up as quickly as EA and Full Circle lastly announce a launch date, however till then, all of us simply have to hold tight. Once it’s introduced (which is able to in all probability embody a number of variations which have varied perks, as EA likes to do), we are going to break all of them down so you understand precisely how a lot it can price you and the place you’ll want to go to order your copy.

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