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Skate It Dated Nov. 19th

Publisher EA has announced that Skate It, for the Wii and DS will be released on November 19th, the same day as Microsoft’s NXE Update.  This entire year has been fairly void of skating titles for any console so it is somewhat of a relief that we get at least something from this extreme sports category.

Skate It will give gamers the option of control through either the Wii Remote and Nunchuk or Nintendo’s own Wii Balance Board.  The DS version will of course, use the stylus.  The game looks decent, plus it gives owners of the Wii Balance Board the chance to finally blow the dust off and give it another try.  EA did a fine job with Skate so this is at least worth a second look, especially for third party starved Wii owners.

[Via Gamespot]

Skate It Demo Trailer

Looks like the dream of a skating video game that uses the Wii Balance Board is getting closer and closer to a reality. Skate It from EA is looking visually appealing and functional with the use of the board. I like the ability to shift your weight and do different jumps from just the board. My main questions lie in the grinding and flipping that needs to be done, that will be very hard to control via the board. Now that the skating game is out of the way I can definitely envision a surfing game as well. What do you think?