Port Caverton is an impressively massive city, and it’s filled with surprises and things to skate off. Gone are the unlockable areas, as are the security guards who would violently shoo you away from said locked areas. The rest of the game looks pretty standard for the series, but this is a huge issue when the game in built on multiplayer sessions.īy far the most impressive aspect of Skate 3 is that the city is now completely open. The worst is when you get a number of players together in a single event and the framerate drops horribly. When the action gets too hectic, the game’s framerate can prove unpredictably bad. ".the game’s framerate can prove unpredictably bad." If I had one complaint about this though it’s that the photographers you hire to take pictures of your squad will often take laughably bad angles and while you can mess with the zoom and other features – you have to wonder how many boards you could sell if you only had some decent photographers. I actually loved the online mode, where you can create your own team with real people online you earn sales and fans each time someone views your user-created content (videos, pictures, magazine covers). What’s cool about this is that pretty much every mode in the game assists you with your goal. Putting players in charge of creating their own skate team, and giving them an actual objective in selling skateboards feels perfect for Skate 3, as the game feels much larger, yet much more organized than before. Things get a little easier when you’re teaming up with actual people via the game’s impressive online suite, which you’re going to want to do – unless you’re keen to losing matches thanks to your partners sub-par performance.
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Even the game’s pro skaters seem to be infected with the idiot bug they’ll often fall off their board or continuously skate into walls. Both other skaters and pedestrians alone seem to have no idea skaters are coming and don’t seem to care that they’re about to be run over.
There’s an upside and a downside to the new team based mechanic as a lot of the events have been tweaked in order to accommodate multiple skaters, which means you’re going to have to deal with the game’s terrible AI.
".you’re going to have to deal with the game’s terrible AI." The change really has no major effect on the core gameplay, just that your success will be measured in the amount of boards sold and a number of the events are predominately partner based. So you’ve skated your way through the other games and made your city all safe and skater friendly what’s left to do? Why start your own skateboarding company of course! Skate 3 charges players with the task of developing their own skate team and managing their careers.
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For the franchise’s third installment, things have stayed mostly the same – which isn’t a bad thing – but the additions here make Skate 3 a must buy for fans of the series and the sport. Perhaps that’s why I’ve always liked the Skate series – in an era filled with rebirths and re-imaginings, the developers have kept things decidedly simple. What started off as a simple formula with easy button combinations and maneuvers has transformed into a complex system that proves to intimidate newcomers, ultimately leading to an abysmal failure like Tony Hawk Ride. You know, when you really stop to think about it, the problems facing the skateboarding genre are the same facing the video game industry proper.