Footage exhibiting off parkour gameplay from the upcoming Skate reboot has surfaced on-line.
The footage, which has been circulating on social media, comes from the continued playtests that EA has been operating for a while. These playtests, which have been opening as much as extra gamers not too long ago, have constantly resulted in related leaked footage.
Whereas earlier Skate titles featured the power to get off the board and run across the setting, this footage seems to recommend that the sport will function expanded motion choices.
The sport is presently in playtesting on PC, though EA has steered {that a} console playtest could observe. In a weblog reflecting on a yr of playtesting on PC, the corporate instructed console gamers they haven’t been forgotten.
“We additionally need to give a shout-out to the console Skate group – sure, we’re nonetheless presently solely playtesting on PC however we promise console playtesting will likely be coming,” it stated. “We don’t have a date to share simply but, however keep tuned.”
Skate was revealed in June 2020 in a shock announcement which broke EA’s Twitter engagement file.
The free-to-play recreation is the debut title from Full Circle, a Vancouver-based EA studio headed up by former Xbox Stay common supervisor Daniel McCulloch, who spent 15 years with Microsoft’s gaming enterprise earlier than departing in 2020.
Skate will assist cross-play and cross-progression on PC, PlayStation and Xbox consoles.