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Why Tony should be terrified of Skate's bag of tricks

It's your own personal skateboard video suite
Immediately it's obvious where the focus of Skate's world lies - your board. EA's clever developers have labored long and hard to model the board, your feet, each wheel and truck and combine them in a physical world, and the camera points directly at that point of action, not the back of your trendy branded cap.

Even better, you can take snapshots from different camera angles and send them to your friends. Even better still, you can take particularly juicy rolls of film and upload them to a dedicated website, where you can edit and cut them together with other clips to create your very own skate video.

Prove to your friends just how amazing that triple heelflip really was, or compile a brutal montage of all your friends' worst/best bails.

It's your own personal skateboard video suite
Immediately it's obvious where the focus of Skate's world lies - your board. EA's clever developers have labored long and hard to model the board, your feet, each wheel and truck and combine them in a physical world, and the camera points directly at that point of action, not the back of your trendy branded cap.

And, brilliantly, as you skate the game automatically records your actions. Pause the game at any point and you can rewind to watch that perfect trick again and again.

Even better, you can take snapshots from different camera angles and send them to your friends. Even better still, you can take particularly juicy rolls of film and upload them to a dedicated website, where you can edit and cut them together with other clips to create your very own skate video.

Prove to your friends just how amazing that triple heelflip really was, or compile a brutal montage of all your friends' worst/best bails.

Ben_Richardson

Ben Richardson is a former Staff Writer for Official PlayStation 2 magazine and a former Content Editor of GamesRadar+. In the years since Ben left GR, he has worked as a columnist, communications officer, charity coach, and podcast host – but we still look back to his news stories from time to time, they are a window into a different era of video games.