3on3 Freestyle

 PlayStation 4
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  1. Skydog
    Jan 4, 2021
    0
    This review could have been one simple word....
    AWFUL.
    But since they require more.. I'll just say it again.

    AWFUL.
    Laggy garbage.

    2021 review: decided to retry it. Still is laggy garbage but now with percentage based micro transactions tacked as well as op dlc characters. Whoever decided that was ok totally killed their game.
  2. SuperkenGaming
    Jun 26, 2017
    4
    3on3 Freestyle
    only fun with friends
    3on3Fresstlye is a free to play multiplayer only half court street ball game You can either play 1v1 which is you and 2 ai vs 1 other player and 2 ai or 3 v 3 which is 3 human players vs 3 other human players… The game also supports couch co-op for up to 3 players… This or playing with an online crew is easily the best way to play this game... As    3on3 Freestyle
    only fun with friends
    3on3Fresstlye is a free to play multiplayer only half court street ball game
    You can either play 1v1 which is you and 2 ai vs 1 other player and 2 ai or 3 v 3 which is 3 human players vs 3 other human players…
    The game also supports couch co-op for up to 3 players…
    This or playing with an online crew is easily the best way to play this game...
    As going in solo and playing with random players just isn’t fun…
    Even if you play 1v1 you don’t get to jump between your 3 characters...
    you have to rely on the ai to not lose to ball or be able to make a shot…
    And in 3v3 which is easily the better mode..
    The game feels very ball hoggy, where strategy is out the window... everyone is just trying to make as many points as possible...
    The gameplay here is very stiff…
    from moving, to steeling… to blocking and shooting…
    like any other half court game if you rebound a shot of the opponent you have to take the ball beyond the 3 point line to be able to shoot again…
    And at the end of a match an mvp is awarded and you’re given your xp and credits…
    Xp for you that is…
    Not for your character…
    This is where the free to play nonsense comes into play…
    There are 17 characters to unlock here that take a ridiculous amount of credits to purchase
    about 2 and a half hours’ worth of playing per character..
    And some of them are locked behind a premium pay wall as is the customizable items like jerseys... you can’t just earn these items or characters...
    And as you would expect... these premium characters have the best solids stats…
    But what about the regular characters?
    Thankfully you can grind to level up your characters, boost their stats and attributes….
    Just not by actually playing the game and using that character because that would be ridiculous…
    No... You need an xp drink. .that you buy with your credits or you get from putting your characters to work…
    And after 24 real time hours they come back with some goods...
    You can also boost attributes with training day cards that you get from buying albums with coins…
    A lot of coin spending here…which is fine because you get them from finishing matches...
    What isn’t fine is how little you get from matches compared to prices… and of course you can just straight up buy coins with real life money…
    can you tell where I’m going with this?
    Characters with attributes that you can level up....buuuut they only level up with items you have to buy or wait a day for... not by actually using them
    seems a little shady.. .
    And that’s because it is…
    This is a pay to win game
    which means tons if unbalanced matches with characters that hardly miss and never want to share the ball…
    I can see how this game can be fun for a while with 3 close friends…
    but structurally this is a broken game fueled by greed...
    I give 3 on 3 freestyle
    a 4.5/10    … Expand
  3. Nel
    Jan 7, 2017
    4
    The game is just bad compared to more advanced basketball games. The controls are mediocre at best, and it takes forever to find a match online. If you want to play basketball do yourself a favor and buy NBA2K
  4. The_BlueRose
    Feb 27, 2017
    3
    The game has huge deficiencies, the most important IMO the fact that you can only control one character during the matches, even in 1vs1 mode, you can´t control the other two characters.

    There are only two modes, 3vs3 and 1vs1, there isn´t a IA practice mode to see the diferent skills of the characters The customization is poor, and the evolution sistem is unclear. There is an    The game has huge deficiencies, the most important IMO the fact that you can only control one character during the matches, even in 1vs1 mode, you can´t control the other two characters.

    There are only two modes, 3vs3 and 1vs1, there isn´t a IA practice mode to see the diferent skills of the characters

    The customization is poor, and the evolution sistem is unclear.

    There is an online game only, and the conectivity has serious issues, the most important are desconections, if a player leaves the match ends automaticaly, making the experience.

    the game is more an early-access rather than a game.    … Expand
  5. F_u_c_k_onrush
    May 19, 2020
    0
    Game is **** **** you to all of those who pay for cards and op stuff, also **** this ****ty game and it’s ****ty servers. Everyone that thinks this is a good game can suck my dick, even On Rush is considered a masterpiece compared to this pile of garbage. If you think you are good at this game, it’s your ****ty ass money not you.
  6. LesMiserables
    Aug 23, 2023
    1
    It had the potential to be good but unfortunately it is littered with gacha monetization practices that are specifically designed to waste both your time and money . Progression is laughably slow as the bare minimum which is to get a character to P5 for free requires 84 log ins to raise the 3 intensive manuals that are required

    I say the bare minimum because if you pay/grind enough base    It had the potential to be good but unfortunately it is littered with gacha monetization practices that are specifically designed to waste both your time and money . Progression is laughably slow as the bare minimum which is to get a character to P5 for free requires 84 log ins to raise the 3 intensive manuals that are required

    I say the bare minimum because if you pay/grind enough base stats and individual character strengths and weaknesses don't matter as you can take a center and twist him into becoming a 3pt machine (Among other things) via a combination of P-Buffs and gold/platinum cards

    P-Buffs are buffs that one character can transfer over to everyone else of the same position and if you have 4 characters at P5 you can equip up till 8 . This a manipulative scheme in order to coerce you into buying and grinding characters you don't care for to make your mains RNG chances less random (More on this later)

    Cards can provide various buffs that get stronger and stronger the higher the rarity of the card is . After opening hundreds of free gold packs 98% of the time I received garbage or silver cards so if you ain't opening the stupid expensive platinum ones you ain't doing jack . Another thing worth mentioning is that the developers do not allow you to trade cards between characters because of course they don't

    How all of this translates to gameplay is as follows

    The basic premise is that you have to make fast and accurate characters so that A) You make or close space as fast physically possible and B) Their defense de-buff gets de-buffed by your shot success RNG . As bad as this sound it wouldn't have been THAT bad if it wasn't for freestyles which are arguably the worst and most gamebreaking thing in this game aside from the poor netcode (Again more on this later)

    Freestyles essentially change the normal and character unique shooting , lay up and dunk animations to ones that are faster and offer defense resistence so if you put 0,3% effort and you have a lot of these (Insane grinding/pay requirement) they're pretty much gifted points

    Damn near every character has the potential to be strong and/or annoying if you open up that wallet but some more than others . More specifically some DLC characters when appropriately buffed have ZERO flaws or weaknesses

    All of this exists so that at the very least you'll be manipulated into buying the 80$ ultimate edition which unlocks all characters and future super grindy battle passes that unlike other games aren't just cosmetics but full of "time savers" . From there you better log in every day and grind the FOMO events like a second job if you wish to stand even a slight chance

    Now on to the netcode/servers and good god is it bad . If you have an insanely good ping you gain a MASSIVE frame advantage and if you lag just the right amount you can get "wide open" prompts on your shot even if the defender is an ants distance away from your face and honestly I don't know what's worse (You'll see many abusing this by doing things such as changing regions or suspiciously calling for time-outs to subtly lag switch )

    It's also worth noting that if the match/servers are laggy then I've noticed that your shot success will be butchered as you can and will miss basic open 2pt shots despite having characters and builds specifically build around that (One exception being if you have 100+ ssr which you won't for free)

    The measly player base itself mostly consists of narcissistic "exploit" abusing meta slaves that actually have gaslighted themselves into believing that what they're doing requires skill . After level 10 you'll be fed to whales that have a billion hours worth of grinding and an obscene amount of money spend on this one game . A blacklist system could help but the developers know that whales would abuse it and everyone else would block the whales from ever finding a match

    There's a LOT of other things I could mention such as the quid pro quo ranked , The numerous bugs , Skill balls multiplying in price the more you buy in a single day , PC cheaters with uncapped framerates , Them taking years to nerf broken characters and many other manipulative practices such as the refinery that buffs platinum cards and the intensive updates that allow characters to go beyond P5 for EIGHT INTENSIVE MANUALS (Thankfully most characters aren't worth P6'ing)

    Judging by the games history the game will somehow be in a worse state a year from now as the developers constantly up the ante to keep their whales busy . Anyone sane abandoned the game 4-5 years ago and now it's almost exclusively played by toxic whales . I'd say to avoid it like the plague unless they add a permanent no buffs mode but even then if 3X3 is any indication these cucks will still resort to abusing dumb exploits to get the win    … Expand
  7. dracoooooo
    Jun 26, 2023
    2
    This game has the worst AI system in the world on god, when my teammates leave the game and put me in a 1v3 situation its terrible. The bots never pass the ball I could spam my request for a pass button the whole time we have the ball and ill he wide open then the autistic AI shots the dumbest shot ever guarded by all three of the opponents. And yall need to add a feature to where whenThis game has the worst AI system in the world on god, when my teammates leave the game and put me in a 1v3 situation its terrible. The bots never pass the ball I could spam my request for a pass button the whole time we have the ball and ill he wide open then the autistic AI shots the dumbest shot ever guarded by all three of the opponents. And yall need to add a feature to where when your teammates leave and your going into the next round you can change the AI’s character instead of them just playing the same character with 0 stamina thats just stupid please do something about the AI’s.… Expand

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  1. Sporting News
    Mar 10, 2017
    50
    While 3on3 Freestyle is lacking in many ways, it's still a unique entry on the market that is worth trying out. Given that the game is free, there's really no reason for anyone who may have interest not to do so. There is the potential that new modes, courts and characters through post-release support could make the game more appealing, but the core gameplay may not be good enough for those with current-day expectations of traditional sports games to give it much time to improve.
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