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Mixed or average reviews- based on 60 Ratings

  • Summary: 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 e 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. [Electronic Arts] Expand
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  1. Positive: 58 out of 65
  2. Negative: 0 out of 65
  1. 100
    For long time fans of the franchise, Skate 3 will seem very familiar, however it's hard to argue with a successful formula and this formula has worked like gangbusters so far.
  2. Despite a few cracks and issues in the online play and a couple of missing features that would have improved the experience, SKATE 3 is still a fantastic sequel that really improves on the accessibility and style.
  3. Great open world with tons to explore and thrash. [July 2010, p.82]
  4. Ultimately, it's all about the online: if you have an active social life on Xbox Live then Skate 3 is near-essential, but otherwise you might as well stick to last year's version.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 13
  2. Negative: 2 out of 13
  1. This game is amazing!!!!! Great graphics! Great customization! Just a great game! For $30 its a great deal!
  2. Skate 3 is a decent entry to the series. If you are a skateboarding fan this is a must buy. The gameplay is so much fun, the soundtrack is fantastic and the story is pretty good. Expand
  3. This game is fun to play with many great features. Graphics and audio effects are great too. I think skate 3 is most realistic skate game now in market. But big minus is that game gets boring and repetitive. Expand
  4. Because Skate 2 improved on many of the shortcomings of Skate 1, I expected that Skate 3 would do the same. It does not. It actually feels and looks like they dumped their entire graphics engine. The player movement is less realistic, particularly in bails, where the crashing bodies lack the articulation so nicely rendered in Skate 2. The option for a high- or low-camera angle is frustrating because the up high looks boring but down low you can hardly see what's in front of you. The multiplayer adds a lot of team activities, and I'd say that these are a necessary component of the new game. Large multiplayer reliance obviously has ups and downs though. For example, as this game gets older less people will be playing it online and it will be harder to find teammates to do the challenges. Online multiplayer is a great idea in the start, but as a game gets phased out or eventually replaced by Skate 4, it will become obsolete. One of the most annoying changes is the lack of shared-controller multiplayer. In Skate 1 and 2 you can pass a controller between players (or just play 4 times yourself). This was great for playing in groups greater in number than my controller stock. The nuts and bolts of the gameplay is far inferior in Skate 3. Skating isn't as much fun, it doesn't look as cool, and it has loads of glitchy moments. The expanded multiplayer modes and park editor don't make this version a worthy upgrade. Get Skate 2 instead. Expand

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