Back in the day, I used to love skateboarding games. When Tony Hawk hit the market, I was immediately hooked, spending many a Sunday evening in a virtual half pipe, pulling off some amazing tricks. As the years progressed, Tony and I went our separate ways and these days, the only virtual skateboarding I do is over the shoulder of some gamer at Walmart while waiting in line.

It looks like I missed out on EA’s take on skating. I remember reading about it but not being too impressed. It felt like a cold blooded knocking, focusing purely on skate mechanics while doing it’s best to avoid the inherent zanieness of the Tony Hawk series. Stumbling into this article today, I realize I was wrong.

If you are the proud owner of Skate 3 then you’ll have the opportunity to skate with some zombies. That’s right … skating with the dead. Evidently, the developers added a little cheat code. You simply enter the code “zombie” in the cheat menu and the world will become populated with the walking dead. The dead don’t necessary try to eat you. In fact, they act more like abusive tourists at the Eiffel Tower. They’ll charge you, knock you down, then continue on their merry way.

There’s a little video with on the posting and at the very end, one of the reviewers mentions that you can swing your skateboard at the dead. I’m not sure why he didn’t try it, but it sounds like it could be pretty fun. Check it out.

Skate 3: Zombie Mode (zergwatch.com <- new window)