Skate 3

 Xbox 360
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8.3

Generally favorable reviews- based on 206 Ratings

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  2. Mixed: 35 out of 206
  3. Negative: 14 out of 206
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  1. Annoymous1
    Oct 4, 2014
    8
    A really funny game. It doesn't matter that the physics are floppy, this game is a real humourous mish-mash of accidents, catastrophes and hilarity. It, however, lacks the objective. For a old game, its really fun.
  2. Rhapsody
    Apr 25, 2013
    9
    For this being the first game I have played in the skate series, I never knew what to expect when I got the game, but as soon as I got the game, I was hooked, and I wouldn't want to stop playing, even though I did have problems with my Xbox live connection, it did effect my experience, but it shouldn't effect the score itself.

    I am now waiting for skate 4 to come out, and hopefully it will.
  3. SIPPIO
    Jun 28, 2014
    9
    ---A REVIEW TO HELP THE UNDECIDED DECIDE-----
    my categories are ranked 1-10
    --graphics- 9-
    -Control- 8
    -sound/music-10
    - Customize creation options- 8
    -Vintage/old school decks- 0
  4. Mcgillacuddy
    Jun 16, 2014
    8
    The daddy of all skateboarding games. Plenty of everything. Plenty of customization, tricks, areas to skate in, and plenty of fun. I'm actually gonna give this one an 8 for 2 reasons. 1: The "free world" that you skate in is pretty small and players can get tired of skating over and over in a couple of signature areas. 2: The gameplay is very VERY similar to its predecessors. If you haveThe daddy of all skateboarding games. Plenty of everything. Plenty of customization, tricks, areas to skate in, and plenty of fun. I'm actually gonna give this one an 8 for 2 reasons. 1: The "free world" that you skate in is pretty small and players can get tired of skating over and over in a couple of signature areas. 2: The gameplay is very VERY similar to its predecessors. If you have Skate or Skate 2, paying $60 for Skate 3 isn't worth it.… Expand
  5. NotAFanboy
    Feb 15, 2011
    10
    This game is amazing!!!!! Great graphics! Great customization! Just a great game! For $30 its a great deal!
  6. TheHonestJack
    Mar 31, 2014
    10
    For the longest time, I have looked down upon sports games, thinking them the lazy mans way of getting out. However, that is in no way the case with Skate 3. This may just be one of the best Xbox games I've ever played. The open world really gives you no restrictions, so you can skate literally wherever you want; on a crane, down a pipe, thru the city, in a box with a fox, you name it!For the longest time, I have looked down upon sports games, thinking them the lazy mans way of getting out. However, that is in no way the case with Skate 3. This may just be one of the best Xbox games I've ever played. The open world really gives you no restrictions, so you can skate literally wherever you want; on a crane, down a pipe, thru the city, in a box with a fox, you name it!
    Customization is another great factor, allowing you to make a whole clan of skaters at your disposal. The colors on the game are nice and bright, but don't go over the top. The music, to say the least, is EA's musical gameplay implementation at its best. The skating is smooth and easy to learn, and it is extremely fun to just wipe out and see how many bones you break.

    Overall, skate 3 is not just the best entry in the skate franchise, but also one of the best games I've ever played. 10/10    … Expand
  7. flamingRooster7
    Feb 15, 2011
    10
    Why does everybody think Skate 2 is better??? I've personally played both and this one is by far the best one. The graphics are amazing and the game play is greatly improved. A must have for anybody looking for somebody who's wants something different from CoD games etc...
  8. Ishman
    Dec 20, 2011
    10
    This game gets a 10 from me, that's because I love skating, and I always hated Tony Hawk for being so unrealistic, even though I played the balls out of almost all of them. If you're not into skating this game won't impress you as much as it did me, watching a skate vid and trying to emulate some of the lines that your favorite skater does is always awesome. A few setbacks for me are theThis game gets a 10 from me, that's because I love skating, and I always hated Tony Hawk for being so unrealistic, even though I played the balls out of almost all of them. If you're not into skating this game won't impress you as much as it did me, watching a skate vid and trying to emulate some of the lines that your favorite skater does is always awesome. A few setbacks for me are the bails, it's annoying to see your guy go limp and face plant just because he messed up a kickflip on flat. Some of the tricks are pretty dicey to do with the sticks as well, bodyflips especially, that could just be me being a tard though. In summary, if you like skating you will enjoy this game immensely, less so if you don't. Either way its a solid game. I'm not a religious man, but I prey to god that Skate 4 comes out soon!… Expand
  9. head_exploder
    May 2, 2014
    8
    "Okay, I can make this jump... HA HA HA HA! I just broke my skull." Hilarious. Skate 3 truly is among the funniest games I've ever played. However, the game does get boring after a while.
  10. ViniBaca
    Jul 21, 2014
    9
    Nice game, i spent a lot of time on it and was great, just some physics that are quite weird, like when you are doing a quad flip and starting to move, the skate go with you.
  11. ViperCR
    Feb 11, 2015
    9
    Until 2014 it still cost upwards of 20 pounds in most stores, but having played the game I can understand that. The only negative thing I would say about Skate 3 is that the servers are sometimes difficult to connect to.
  12. Preedo21
    Jul 11, 2015
    10
    Great game with lots of good missions. One of my favourite games.
    Here are some cheats:
    Zombie - Turn pedestrians into zombies (Also changes the color of the sky) Mcfly - Changes your skateboard into a snazzy hover board -- Beware: They don't go on water* Miniskaters - Smaller, stylized skater Deadspacetoo - Unlocks Isaac from Dead Space dontbesomayo - Unlock Miracle Whip clothes and    Great game with lots of good missions. One of my favourite games.
    Here are some cheats:
    Zombie - Turn pedestrians into zombies (Also changes the color of the sky)
    Mcfly - Changes your skateboard into a snazzy hover board -- Beware: They don't go on water*
    Miniskaters - Smaller, stylized skater
    Deadspacetoo - Unlocks Isaac from Dead Space
    dontbesomayo - Unlock Miracle Whip clothes and objects
    streetsweeper - Reset all movable objects to their original positions    … Expand
  13. ElSeano89
    Mar 3, 2018
    8
    Skate 3 is likely the best skateboarding game ever made. At the time of its release it wasn't as appreciated as it is now due to being released less than a year after it's predecessor Skate 2 and not adding a vast amount to it. What it did however was make subtle tweaks to an already brilliant formula to really make the best skate game possible.

    The game has aged incredibly well and its    Skate 3 is likely the best skateboarding game ever made. At the time of its release it wasn't as appreciated as it is now due to being released less than a year after it's predecessor Skate 2 and not adding a vast amount to it. What it did however was make subtle tweaks to an already brilliant formula to really make the best skate game possible.

    The game has aged incredibly well and its popularity in the world of streaming gaming channels actually caused EA to do a reprint of the game some 8 years after it's original release, this in the world of gaming is extremely rare, especially in this age of digital downloads. A large part of its popularity in streaming is the bailout ragdoll physics which can have some hilarious and always unique results. The game understands this appeal too, adding in a whole list of missions called "Hall of Meat" where the objective is to hurt your skater in a variety of creative and cringe inducing ways. This on its own is highly entertaining, gaining ridiculous levels of speed or height and then watching as your character lands with a sickening crunch of bones snapping before being presented with an x-ray view of what broke and where. It is great fun and a nice distraction from the actual skating part of the game.

    The skating is quite brilliant as well. The animations and physics are top notch and still hold up today. The control scheme of flicking the sticks to do tricks is a perfect example of something that is easy to pick up yet challenging to master and they do a brilliant job of folding quite a lot of tricks into one stick. Graphically it hasn't aged badly at all and whilst it obviously pales in comparison to modern day graphics it still looks good enough and has a nice level of detail.

    The game world is probably their best attempt out of the 3 games. It's quite vast and full of a mix of vert ramps and street style equipment. It is a world that invites you to become creative and invent your own lines and also one that allows the games brilliant missions to be diverse and entertaining throughout. There is a wide variety of gear and boards for your character to unlock and wear and they do a good job of using this stuff as the proverbial carrot to chase throughout the game. It's the sort of game you can lose hours in just fooling around, making your own lines up or scouting for a great stair set to gap or handrail to grind.

    If there are any downsides it is that for me, not being much of a skater, the pro skaters voice acting is shaky at best and pretty much all of the dialogue is annoying, particularly the announcer during contests who is that irritating I found myself muting the tv during contests. The computer has a nasty habit of spawning you in dumb places if you bail during a race which makes racing basically become a "do a perfect run" type of deal if you want to win. Frustrating but not too terrible. Again its a subjective point but I found the music to be so bad I just turned it off and they didn't vary up the genres as much as they do in other games.

    Besides that this was basically the perfect skate game. There isn't much to the story but who cares? As a sandbox for skating and/or breaking bones this is pretty much the best we ever got and with Skate 4 looking unlikely seeing as everybody is still buying Skate 3 this is probably the best we'll ever get.

    In a recent EA sale on XBone I saw this including and checked the price out of curiousity and it was a mere £3.74. I got about 10 hours out of it completing the main "storyline" and honestly I'm going to leave it installed because it's a good pick up and play game. Great value for money nowadays and just a great game. A superb mix of simulation/realistic skating and wacky off the walls fun. It never really seems to get old and that goes a long way to explaining why, after all these years, people still play it.    … Expand
  14. Donnie1
    Mar 12, 2019
    10
    Nice game, i have gotten a million boards by now and it was fun a hell! More of this please!

    A+
  15. jcop678
    Jul 25, 2011
    8
    This was a fun game different from others and still fun. I loved the open world environment and the opportunity to hit people with your skate board i had a fun experience and i liked the multiple skate parks but the reason why its not a 10 is the missions weren't that fun and the online is sketchy but still fun. I would recommend this game.
  16. T-DIDDEY
    Oct 18, 2012
    8
    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.
  17. tw1stedreviews
    Oct 30, 2013
    10
    I love this game. It gives you loads of customization options so you can create the skater you want, even if you are not a big fan of skateboarding it has hilarious missions such as the hall of meat challenges where you fling yourself off of buildings causing as much damage to your skater as possible. You can edit the map in real time to create massive skate parks on the fly. The onlyI love this game. It gives you loads of customization options so you can create the skater you want, even if you are not a big fan of skateboarding it has hilarious missions such as the hall of meat challenges where you fling yourself off of buildings causing as much damage to your skater as possible. You can edit the map in real time to create massive skate parks on the fly. The only downside to this game is the fact EA closed the logo creator down but that is not the games fault that is EA's fault so go and shout at them.… Expand
  18. ZiNSHADY
    Jan 25, 2014
    10
    This game is awesome not perfect but awesome because the game is a improved skate 1 with skate 2 you can make your own spot and more but in skate 3 you cant do this you could only spawn your own props pretty dumb
  19. TimeOfTheChimps
    Jul 10, 2016
    9
    The Hall of Meat mode and bone breaking system makes for some hilarious and cringe-worthy falls, hits, bails; they add a lot to the game's replay value and make it a lot more fun. There are also lots and lots of challenges, some easy, some foot-through-the-TV impossible, though they all add a variety of content to the game that lasts for hours. Also, the graphics are good and theThe Hall of Meat mode and bone breaking system makes for some hilarious and cringe-worthy falls, hits, bails; they add a lot to the game's replay value and make it a lot more fun. There are also lots and lots of challenges, some easy, some foot-through-the-TV impossible, though they all add a variety of content to the game that lasts for hours. Also, the graphics are good and the environment is stellar. The only negative I have is that some of the tutorials and controls are difficult to grasp, and could be explained a little better. Otherwise, the game is near flawless and makes for a hilarious, engaging time-passer that you should not be missing out on.… Expand
  20. tidjo19
    May 17, 2014
    10
    I dont like to give 10 because nothing is perfect but this game is awesome!
    first sucked and second was frustrating but this one is great !!!
    It's the game I played the most
    dream about the day SKATE 4 will be announced
  21. AwesomePossum50
    Sep 2, 2016
    10
    I seriously just can't get enough of this game. I'm not good enough to compete online or even do great in single-player, but I just love everything in it. If you're like me, you can watch HelixSnake's YouTube videos of this over and over and laugh like crazy every time. My friends and I love trying those tricks as well, but we're not nearly as skilled. But seriously, I don't think I couldI seriously just can't get enough of this game. I'm not good enough to compete online or even do great in single-player, but I just love everything in it. If you're like me, you can watch HelixSnake's YouTube videos of this over and over and laugh like crazy every time. My friends and I love trying those tricks as well, but we're not nearly as skilled. But seriously, I don't think I could enjoy any sports games more than this and Dave Mirra BMX...… Expand
  22. Siddhartha19
    Oct 3, 2015
    9
    The game has a Steep Learning Curve, but if your up to the challenge, you will be rewarded with one of the more gratifying gaming experiences around. If I was a parent this is the type of game I would buy my kids (maybe for kids 8+), you need to memorize moves, then practice applying them in different environments, often times it feels puzzle like. You will fall time and time again, butThe game has a Steep Learning Curve, but if your up to the challenge, you will be rewarded with one of the more gratifying gaming experiences around. If I was a parent this is the type of game I would buy my kids (maybe for kids 8+), you need to memorize moves, then practice applying them in different environments, often times it feels puzzle like. You will fall time and time again, but eventually when you start putting things together.… Expand
  23. gamingisgreat
    Aug 5, 2016
    9
    Skate 3 is an amazing game.

    I don't play skateboarding games.but I seen gameplay of this and was impressed. Skate 3 has great character customisation.There are a lot of funny looking combinations you can create with this. There is also a lot of variety in the challenges you do,from normal street contests to Hall Of Meat,where you try to break as many bones as possible after    Skate 3 is an amazing game.

    I don't play skateboarding games.but I seen gameplay of this and was impressed.

    Skate 3 has great character customisation.There are a lot of funny looking combinations you can create with this.

    There is also a lot of variety in the challenges you do,from normal street contests to Hall Of Meat,where you try to break as many bones as possible after bailing from your board.

    The game looks good visually,and runs at a solid 60 fps.

    Gameplay wise,Skate 3 plays well,but is very precise and can be very unforgiving,at times leading to a lot of frustration.The game is very fun to play and the open-world and park editor are toyboxes for you to do what ever you wish.

    Soundtrack is good too.

    Overall,I would highly recommend Skate 3.Though frustrating at points,the game is so fun and you would be missing out by not playing it.    … Expand
  24. Ijekster
    Apr 21, 2015
    10
    I think this game is amazing. Everything felt like it was fluent and satisfying. Everyone has fun with the game, whether you put no effort and just use the free roam or if you are a master and put effort into the game. There is an option for everyone. Amazing game in my opinion.
  25. Blessman95
    May 18, 2015
    9
    The best skateboarding game of all time, because it really simulates what a skater wants to enjoy.
    Fluid movements very well developed spot to create and enjoy all your places an entertaining environment.
  26. pikby
    Jan 27, 2016
    10
    proof that video games are art

    its beutiful

    its amazing

    its so amazing
    its fantastic

    my favorite part was when an an invisible car hit me .............
  27. hamishio175
    Oct 17, 2015
    10
    It is alot of fun, It is cheap and with great graphics. You can just explore or you can shred some sick moves! This game lets you just fool around and well, injure yourself it is just alot of fun even Markiplier agrees!
  28. byebyby
    Dec 20, 2015
    8
    The game i nearly always fun and I still enjoy making bail montages 4 years on. The world to skate (and bail) in is amazing and it kept me going. I'm only giving this an 8 because sometimes the game was very frustrating in certain races and skill games like 1-up or HORSE.
  29. Shadow1
    May 21, 2016
    8
    This game very realistic and very good skateboarding simulator . In this game very good graphics and this game very funny . This game not as popular as the Tony Hawk's Series , but also popular and this game not deserves so popular , this game deserves to be more popular . 8/10 . One of the best skateboarding simulator .
  30. brendo214
    May 22, 2019
    8
    Skate 3 is what happens when you mix some silliness into the best skating game ever created.
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#52 Best Xbox 360 Game of 2010
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#30 Most Discussed Xbox 360 Game of 2010
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#3 Most Shared Xbox 360 Game of 2010

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Metascore
80

Generally favorable reviews - based on 65 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 58 out of 65
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 65
  3. Negative: 0 out of 65
  1. 1UP
    100
    This latest chapter improves on virtually every aspect of its near-flawless fundamentals, while delivering more modes, missions, and multiplayer components, proving to fans that its days of resting on its laurels aren't here quite yet.
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  2. Eurogamer
    80
    The true narrative of this game is the journey of slow, dogged, satisfying improvement that you'll travel as you work the ineffable rhythms of the board into your fingers.
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  3. Game Informer
    88
    While this latest title doesn't take any huge risks, I would argue that's a good thing. Skate has always been one of those rare games where you can just aimlessly play with no goals or objectives.
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