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Jay Balmer presents a video that explains the ‘Flickit’ controls which are included in EA’s upcoming skateboarding title.

Skate is a next-gen skateboarding title that is being developed by EA Black Box and published by Electronics for both the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.

The game has been deemed the most realistic skateboarding game of all time and is currently scheduled to launch across North America on September 18, with a European release yet to be finalised.

Skate will take place in a fictional town of San Valelona, which will in turn be inspired by locations such as San Francisco, Vancouver, Venice Beach, and Barcelona.

EA recently released a video which demonstrates how the game’s control scheme will be implemented. It’s hosted by Jay Balmer, the game’s associate producer, check it out below:

Jun 28, 2007

News by Karn Bianco.

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