Skate 3

 Xbox 360
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8.3

Generally favorable reviews- based on 206 Ratings

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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. Malamar
    Oct 6, 2014
    7
    This is a fun game if you want to mess around with or without your friends. Also mess around on your skateboard by doing Hall of Meats S.K.A.T.E and other fun mini games
  6. NotAFanboy
    Feb 15, 2011
    10
    This game is amazing!!!!! Great graphics! Great customization! Just a great game! For $30 its a great deal!
  7. DME
    Jul 18, 2012
    6
    It's fun to free skate, but challenges feel repetitive. If you have a lot of friends with this game, it becomes a ton of fun online. However by yourself, it just becomes a time killer when you are bored with your other games. I can't say a single bad thing about graphics or audio quality, however the music selection could of been better. All in all, Skate 3 is a game I rarely play now,It's fun to free skate, but challenges feel repetitive. If you have a lot of friends with this game, it becomes a ton of fun online. However by yourself, it just becomes a time killer when you are bored with your other games. I can't say a single bad thing about graphics or audio quality, however the music selection could of been better. All in all, Skate 3 is a game I rarely play now, but yet I am reluctant to sell it.… Expand
  8. Vladasin
    Oct 9, 2011
    6
    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.
  9. 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
  10. rawrieatchu
    Apr 29, 2013
    7
    Theres not much that's as fun as grabbing a wooden plank, throwing some wheels on it, riding it down a steep hill and launching yourself off it at a stupidly dangerous speed and hitting your head of a lamppost, and tumbling down a set of stairs while knocking down everyone in your way.

    Also watching your poor skeleton disintegrate during the process is an added bonus. Fun game, not    Theres not much that's as fun as grabbing a wooden plank, throwing some wheels on it, riding it down a steep hill and launching yourself off it at a stupidly dangerous speed and hitting your head of a lamppost, and tumbling down a set of stairs while knocking down everyone in your way.

    Also watching your poor skeleton disintegrate during the process is an added bonus.

    Fun game, not too much substance however.    … Expand
  11. morefiction
    Nov 22, 2011
    3
    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 isBecause 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
  12. 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...
  13. 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
  14. Manio
    Apr 22, 2013
    4
    Skate 3 as a skateboarding game isn't enjoyable as you'd expect. It's boring, and at times feel extremely clunky. Plus, the game feels like it has no depth to it whatsoever.

    I think I'll stick with the Tony Hawk's Underground titles.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. Romanbird
    Nov 1, 2014
    4
    I heard so many good things about Skate, read some reviews and decided to pick it up.
    I shouldn't have, the controls are wonky, as is the camera (which seems to switch to inverted controls occasionally) and the game automatically moves to towards rails, making lip slides a pain to land.
    1 push gives you a crawling speed that matched by a snail and saying that, most 'missions' start you    I heard so many good things about Skate, read some reviews and decided to pick it up.
    I shouldn't have, the controls are wonky, as is the camera (which seems to switch to inverted controls occasionally) and the game automatically moves to towards rails, making lip slides a pain to land.

    1 push gives you a crawling speed that matched by a snail and saying that, most 'missions' start you very close to the piece to be skated making it hard to get the speed you want.

    Vert skating is from what I've found almost impossible. You can't pump from what I know therefore making airs a rare occurrence. You can drop into bowls by getting off your board and pressing Y on the edge of the vert, but riding into one sends you flying down to flat.

    The story is pretty bland, you start off I assume skating for some sponsor, bail hard and end up starting your own board company. It's your job to do these missions to have photos taken for magazines or billboards, videos taken for skate parts (which skip to you doing a trick not the whole line. I watched as the game loaded the next trick which was almost seamlessly right after the first).

    There is no depth, no characters to like or hate, you just skate and do the missions for promo material.

    The camera up high is fine, it's where I'm used to it from most 3rd person games, however the low variant of it is horrible. It's hard to line up where you're going. I should note; there is a fish-eye lens filter which you can turn on and off too, I assume this is for recording parts.

    The controls are interesting for sure, but at times provide a frustrating experience. If you're coming from THPS it's going to be a shock and you'll find it hard to get used to them.

    Overall I think the game is interesting, the sounds are great, music is good and landing a trick feels fantastic because of the realistic 'slamming' your board to the ground. The UI could use some work as the controls.

    If you are a fan and played the Tony Hawk games, I would stay away from this as it's a huge shock and generally not as fun to play, especially if you skateboard yourself.    … Expand
  18. 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.
  19. stefany447
    Apr 1, 2015
    2
    i have a son who is 6 years old. a little too young for video games you might think?-- not hardly. he is AMAZINGLY gifted in the gaming world (especially with Minecraft)... He recently saw a video of Skate3 and has been bugging the crap out of me for it ever since. in the past i've bought him games thinking they looked fairly easy for him to catch onto and then proven wrong shortly afteri have a son who is 6 years old. a little too young for video games you might think?-- not hardly. he is AMAZINGLY gifted in the gaming world (especially with Minecraft)... He recently saw a video of Skate3 and has been bugging the crap out of me for it ever since. in the past i've bought him games thinking they looked fairly easy for him to catch onto and then proven wrong shortly after the purchase. I'm lost on video games that are any newer than Nintendo's Super Mario 3 so I have no clue how to judge the looks of difficulty pf it... any input?… Expand
  20. 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
  21. 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
  22. 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+
  23. keirangallagher
    Oct 30, 2011
    7
    skate 3 is a very good game and a massive improvement on the previous titles. The game is very fun , especially for skaters, with a wide range of challenges and pro's to compete against. some aspects of the game can become repetitive, but the majority of the game is great with plenty of different challenges such as the Hall of Meat Challenges or the many deathraces. Skate 3 is undoubtedlyskate 3 is a very good game and a massive improvement on the previous titles. The game is very fun , especially for skaters, with a wide range of challenges and pro's to compete against. some aspects of the game can become repetitive, but the majority of the game is great with plenty of different challenges such as the Hall of Meat Challenges or the many deathraces. Skate 3 is undoubtedly the best skating game available and makes competitors ( *cough* tony hawk) look terrible in comparison… Expand
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
  26. 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
  27. ITZZZPERRY
    Jan 1, 2015
    6
    Skate 3 is more of the same in regard to its predecessor. While the gameplay is still fun, nothing has really changed. Multiplayer is still fun, albeit the connection is not good.
  28. 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
  29. 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
  30. Jerseylicious88
    Apr 20, 2014
    7
    If you go into my account and see my Goat Simulator review you will see that I said intentionally glitchy games can be great. Well this is exactly what I was talking about when I said that. This is a game that does not get old after 10 minutes. It has a fairly large world, it has CUSTOM LEVELS that you can easily create (that you can do interesting stuff with unlike Goat Simulator's customIf you go into my account and see my Goat Simulator review you will see that I said intentionally glitchy games can be great. Well this is exactly what I was talking about when I said that. This is a game that does not get old after 10 minutes. It has a fairly large world, it has CUSTOM LEVELS that you can easily create (that you can do interesting stuff with unlike Goat Simulator's custom levels), and there's more to the game than failing. Although failing is the most fun part, there are still really cool tricks you can do, sick trick competitions, and customizing characters (or at least I like doing that). Anyway this game is seriously entertaining, seriously funny, and seriously random and it does all of those things right which is why it gets 6/8 from me.… Expand
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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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