Skate 3 features an all-new co-op mode where teammates can complete challenges together while advancing each other's careers. From rewarding epic bails and fails with a beefed up Hall of Meat mode to honing your craft with the all-new Skate School, players of all skill levels have multiple ways to "kill it" in the game. The franchise also continues to raise the bar for user-created content with the Skate Create feature suite, an innovative toolset that empowers gamers to truly express their skate style by creating their own graphics, videos and skate parks.Skate 3 breaks new ground by taking all of the camaraderie and competitive excitement of real-life skateboarding and brings it to the hands of gamers. Whether online or offline, players can now team up to build the ultimate skate crew in the definitive skateboarding co-op experience. In Skate 3, players take part in team-based challenges, compete against rival crews and leave their mark on the all-new skater’s paradise, Port Carverton.
Players who pre-order Skate 3 get an unlock code that gives them exclusive access to the iconic Black Box Distribution Skate Park, home turf of Zero, Mystery, and Fallen skate teams. Black Box Distribution was founded in 2000 by Jamie Thomas, and houses and distributes some of skateboarding’s biggest selling brands .
SKATE 3 features an all-new co-op mode where teammates can complete challenges together while advancing each other’s careers. From rewarding epic bails and fails with a beefed up Hall of Meat mode to honing your craft with the all-new skate.School, players of all skill levels have multiple ways to “kill it” in the game. The franchise also continues to raise the bar for user created content with the skate.Create feature suite, an innovative toolset that empowers gamers to truly express their skate style by creating their own graphics, videos, and skate parks.
NavPower provides one of the leading NavMesh auto-generation libraries. It is designed to support open world games with a high-performance build process and streaming technology that stitches together hundreds of meshes at runtime. The NavPower solution will be utilized in latest iteration of EA’s critically-acclaimed SKATE franchise being developed by Black Box, an EA studio based in Burnaby, B.C.
"We chose NavPower because it provides the best support for our large, complex levels in terms of the rapid build process and the compact memory footprint," said Mike Rayner, Chief Technical Officer at Black Box. "The NavPower feature set allows us to develop complex AI behaviors that look great even as the world changes dynamically around the SKATE characters."
"From the NavPower perspective, it's great to see game teams leveraging the NavPower functionality in innovative ways, and the EA teams have definitely been doing that from day one," said David Miles, NavPower Chief Technology Officer. "We are pleased that EA selected NavPower for its AAA titles and we continue to work closely with the development teams to deliver the highest quality AI experience."
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