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Confirmed: Downhill Jam to feature in-game voice chat

That's right, you read the headline correctly. In an e-mail that was sent out to Sk8land community members describing the game's final features, it's revealed that the title will feature in-game voice chat, something sorely missed from a certain game featuring a female bounty hunters and energy-absorbing life forms.

Among that bomb, other Sk8land community features in the final game include:
  • 50 graffiti and skate decks drawn by SK8Land's best community artists have been included in every copy of Downhill Jam for Nintendo DS!
  • Community Moderator AgoraKenny worked with Vicarious Visions as a Designer on Downhill Jam DS
Some of the game's other features include:
  • Create custom shirts and pants as well as graffiti and skate decks for your skater
  • Fully customizable RGB color scale - use any colors you want!
  • Zoom in for pixel perfect precision
  • Upload your art and share it on the Downhill Jam Community Site
  • 4 player Head to Head over Nintendo Wi-Fi
  • Live voice chat with friends during gameplay
  • Global score rankings
  • Replays
  • Sk8 Crews
  • 100 Downloadable Goals

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1. Wow, I'm impressed. I seriously thought that the DS wasn't powerful enough to do voip compression and game logic at the same time. Guess it's the little system that could!

Posted at 3:06PM on Oct 4th 2006 by Moogle 0 stars

2. So thats 3 games that have voip. Keep em' coming nintendo.

Posted at 5:08PM on Oct 4th 2006 by RandomDouche 0 stars

3. Fitting game title. Add voice chat to any online game, and it just goes Downhill from there. :-P

Posted at 3:01AM on Oct 5th 2006 by Chris 0 stars

4. Wasn't in game voip confirmed way back a long time ago (around E3)?

Posted at 7:14PM on Oct 4th 2006 by Jon 0 stars

5. Wow. I was unaware of all these features. I was going to purchase Sk8land again after I lost it but this sounds too good.

Posted at 3:23PM on Oct 6th 2006 by Amethyst 0 stars

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