(PS3/XBOX360)(Sports) Skate 3 ? PlayStation 3 Review | XN-Games

Many extreme sports titles have used various gimmicks to be more easily marketed including outlandish gravity-defying physics, superfluous board peripherals and raunchiness. The skate series is completely different, taking extreme sports back to it?s laid-back roots. Skate 3, like it?s predecessors, features intricate and intuitive controls to perform a wide variety of flips, grinds, grabs, and tweaks. Kickflips feel more direct with the advent of the ?trick stick?, allowing you to perform flip tricks by motioning the right analog stick in various directions and at different speeds depending on how quickly the stick is flicked.

Skate 3 offers an open-world, free-skating atmosphere giving you an expansive city to explore and complete various challenges at your own pace. The real focus of Skate 3 however isn?t really on challenges and competitions, but rather on creativity and connecting with friends. The most fun to be had in Skate 3 is definitely when played online with friends, which includes completing challenges together, going head-to-head in versus matches and inviting them to your own customized skate park for a free-skate session.

As you complete challenges and progress in Skate 3, more boards and articles of clothing become available to customize your created skate team (up to 5 created characters). Clothing options are plentiful, but the character creator itself isn?t very deep, only offering a few options in face modification. In addition to clothing, various miscellaneous objects, which can be placed anywhere on-screen to trick off of, can be unlocked as well. One of such items happens to be a giant bottle of Miracle Whip, which brings us to one of Skate 3?s issues, rampant product placement. Ads for T-Mobile, Dr.Pepper and such litter the landscape and may offend some, but not as much as the difficulties with EA servers.

Sadly, numerous online features such as sharing skate parks and creating an online skate team are nearly impossible to execute due to problems with EA?s servers. These problems began more than?a year ago and still persist. Barring these issues however, Skate 3 is still arguably the best skateboarding game ever. Even non-skateboard enthusiasts will enjoy the ?hall of meat? challenges which require you to masochistically hurl your character through the air in order to inflict as much damage (and break as many bones) as possible. Being able to listen to one?s own music library while skating is also a big plus. For a truly enjoyable skating experience (at a reasonable price), look no further than Skate 3.

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