As I lie face down on the cold, hard concrete of the skate park, I take a deep breath and confirm that, yes, I’ve definitely won the Best Dressed Corpse Award. My huge 720-degree Christ Air looked incredible as I, the flying Jesus of skateboarding, pirouetted through the skies of San Vansterdam, Skate’s fictional city. But I got greedy like the dwarves of Moria and, stretching for just a little bit more rotation, failed to get my skateboard fully back under my feet in time. The rest, as the grinders say, is skating history.
So far, this has largely summed up my time with the return of the Skate series, which, after a long hiatus, has relaunched into this free-to-play Early Access game. There’s been plenty of pleasure, with the…