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Skate 3 List Price: $39.99 Sale Price: $35.70 Used From: $37.58 Average Rating:   |
Description
The award winning SKATE franchise is back and rolling into new territory as SKATE 3 heads to the brand new city of Port Carverton. Get ready to team up and throw down as you build your own customized dream team to shred the streets, parks, and plazas and change the face of the city. New tricks, improved off-board actions, and gnarly Hall of Meat carnage mixed with exciting new team-based game modes Team Up. Throw Down.—Enjoy all the camaraderie and competition of co-op gameplay by building your ultimate skate crew with your friends. Work together through your career or slay all suckers in head-to-head competitive battles for bragging rights. Keep tabs on the happenings of your teammates and rivals with Skate.Feed, the all-new game and web social network. Build Your Brand, Become a Mogul—Form your team and rise up to become a skate industry mogul. Your team’s logo brands the city as your popularity grows…the more boards you sell the bigger the changes. And the cool thing is, everything you do sells boards. From completing online challenges to having your created skate parks or graphics downloaded by other gamers…it all counts towards your progression. Skate.Create and Share—We give you the game, you create the magic. Skate.Create gives you all the tools needed to create custom content for your team, your own private use, or to share with the world by uploading directly from your console. Returning favorites Skate.Reel and Skate.Graphics are back are joined by the all-new Skate.Park - an open canvas to create your dream plaza or mega-ramp park, Skate.Create is the definitive toolset to let you truly skate it your way. New City, More Tricks, More Skate —Say goodbye to harsh security, skate stoppers, and draining pools, say hello to darkslides, underflips, and an all-new city—Port Carverton, the skater friendly mecca you have been waiting for. Featuring unique districts, all-new plazas, and endless lines, Port Carverton delivers the true skater’s paradise experience.
The award winning Skate franchise is back and trucking into new territory as Skate 3 rolls into the brand new city of Port Carverton. Get ready for a whole new virtual skating experience as you build your own customized dream team to shred the streets, parks, and plazas and change the face of the city. New tricks, improved off-board actions, and gnarly Hall of Meat carnage mixed with exciting new team-based game modes take Skate 3 to a new level of skateboarding fun. Additional features include: 6-skater online multiplayer (including co-op) support, content downloads, Career Mode, Skate School and more. .caption { font-family: Verdana, Helvetica neue, Aerial, serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; } ul.indent { list-style: inside disc; text-indent: -15px; } table.callout { font-family: verdana; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1. 3em; } td.vgoverview { height: 125px; background: #9DC4D8 url(http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/detail-page/callout-bg.png) repeat-x; border-left: 1px solid #999999; border-right: 1px solid #999999; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 20px; padding-bottom: 10px; width: 250px; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; } Team Up and Thrown Down in Port Carverton The award-winning Skate franchise returns to break new ground with Skate 3. Delivering the definitive co-op skateboarding experience, it's up to players to build the ultimate team and change the face of the city. Get ready to take on unique team challenges, compete against rival crews online and shred the streets of the all new skaters’ paradise, Port Carverton. In Skate 3, gamers make the magic happen. Skate Create gives players all the tools to create custom content for their team for both private use and to share with the world. Players can design their dream plaza or mega-ramp park with the all-new Skate Park. They can also capture their team in action with the expanded Skate Reel for team based video creation. Or design a custom logo for their team with the improved Skate Graphics web tool and hit the streets in style. Skate, create and share in Skate 3. View larger. New Tricks and Gameplay Everyone can throw down in Skate 3. New skate fans can learn the ins and outs of skateboarding with the all-new Skate School - a place to practice and hone their skills on the sticks before hitting the streets with their team. Skate 3 delivers all the camaraderie and competition of skateboarding. New tricks, improved off board actions, and gnarly Hall of Meat carnage mixed with exciting new team-based gameplay takes Skate 3 to a new level of skateboarding fun. Key Game Features Team Up. Throw Down - Work together to take on challenges and progress together through the career campaign or slay all suckers in head-to-head competitive battles for bragging rights. Players can keep tabs on the happenings of their teammates and rivals with Skate Feed, the all-new game and web social network. New City, More Tricks, More Skate - Say hello to darkslides, underflips, and the all-new skate Mecca, Port Carverton - featuring unique districts, plazas, skateparks and endless lines, this is the true skater's paradise. Build a Brand, Become a Mogul - Form teams and rise up to become a skate industry mogul by selling boards. From completing online challenges to creating skate parks to having your graphics downloaded, almost everything skaters do in the game counts towards their progression. Skate, Create and Share - Returning favorites Skate Reel and Skate Graphics are back. The all-new Skate Park is an open canvas for players to create their dream plaza or mega-ramp park. Once created, they can share their masterpieces with the world by uploading them directly from their console. Always Room For Meat - Hall of Meat is back and gnarlier than ever. Gamers can brutalize their skaters in the harshest ways possible with all-new total body control bails. Get ready for carnage that is sure to make players cringe. Everyone Can Skate - Learn the ins and outs of skating with the all-new Skate School - a new place you can access at any time in order to learn, practice, and hone your skills on the sticks. Customize your experience with multiple tiers of success and with new on-screen guides including a manual meter and Flickit trick analyzer. Screenshots: Online multiplayer & co-op. View larger. Rise to the top in career mode. View larger. A new skate-friendly town. View larger. Rule the all-new Skate Park. View larger.
Features
- Learn the ins and outs of skating with the all-new Skate School where you can practice your skills on the sticks. Customize your experience with new on-screen guides including a manual meter and Flickit trick analyzer.
- Multiplayer allows you to progress through the career campaign with others or slay them in head-to-head competitive battles. Keep tabs on teammates and rivals with Skate Feed, the all-new game and web social network.
- Say hello to darkslides, underflips, and the all-new skate mecca, Port Carverton - featuring unique districts, plazas, skateparks and endless lines, this is the true skater's paradise.
- Form teams to become a skate industry mogul. From completing online challenges to creating skate parks, to having your graphics downloaded, almost everything skaters do in the game counts towards their progression.
- Skate Reel and Skate Graphics are back, and the all-new Skate Park is an open canvas for players to create their dream plaza or mega-ramp park. Once created, players can share their masterpieces with the world from their console.
Reviews
Skate 3 is the best skateboard game ever. If you thought Skate 2 was realistic, well Skate 3 beats it. Here are the pros. First off there are 3 difficulty's, easy(which of course is easy, still realistic, but requires a lot less effort), normal(which is how Skate 2 was) and Hardcore(Just like real life. The bails are so real, and it requires a lot of effort to do tricks). Skate school. A dude named Coach Frank teaches you how to do: ollies, flip tricks, nollies, grinds, and I think grabs. Better customizing your character. Your dude no longer has to have a ugly face. With more options for clothing and facial looks, you can make your dude look almost like you(and my dude looks like me, but several years older). EA defiantly worked on the faces. New story line. You take off from where you were in Skate 2, but now you're objective is to make your own skateboard company. Teammates. As you sell more boards you unlock items. One of the unlocks is teammates. You can have a total of 4 teammates. But you have to sell a certain amount of boards to add a new team-member. You can also customize and name your teammates.(My teammates in the game, look just like my real skate friends. Which is what I meant to do)You can also do competition with your teammates, or just call them up(with the new, "spawn a skater") and skate with them. New area. You are now in a new city, which is a lot bigger. Also no Mongol corp, the cops are for skating. Only con is there are 3 zones, and you have to teleport to them. Online team. You can now join or make your own online team. Skatepark editor. You can now edit, or make your own skatepark. Also if your in the middle of nowhere and there is a mega stair in front of you and you want a rail to grind on. Well open your skatepark editor and place a rail there. That's right skate objects fall from heavan.(Looks like God likes skateboarders)lol. With Xbox live you can also go to other people's skatepark, and some are AMAZING!!! Now unfortunately the, cons. You can still only skate with friends on xbox live within a boundary. (Im not sure about this) You can't play with friends on the same console anymore. Not the same Hall of Meat. Now it's a thing you have to sign up to do. You have to have a code to activate the skate real(unless you bought it brand new, it comes with the code. The code cost about $10. but if you bought it used, chances are it ain't coming with a code. and if it does, its probably been used). You no longer have money to buy stuff. Instead it depends upon how many boards you have sold. Other than those cons the game is great, and i highly recommend buying it.
Well this is a great game if you want more Skate and improves over Skate 2 in the following ways: -Skatepark Creator that lets you build stuff anywhere (seriously, you can build stuff in the middle of the street) -More online features -Better controls walking -Slightly improved graphics (less drops in frame rate too) -New easy and hard mode -Great new map -Good soundtrack -New missions (but they are repetitive of the last two games) -Continual updates Now for the ugly bad: -EA charges $10 for the "Skate Share Pack" that is included free with the game. The problem here is that if you buy a used copy of this game there is a good chance that this code has already been activated and you will need to spend $10 to be able to upload and download custom skate parks, photos, and replays. This is of course a continuation of the video games industries attempt to profit/stop the 2nd hand market for games as they do not make any money off those. Many people buy games with the knowledge that they can sell the game later if they don't like or they get bored with it and this restriction is an attempt to prevent you from being able to sell what is yours and what you paid for. Even PC games with outrageous DRM allow a limited number of installs, so a one time use activation code is ridiculous. -EA is continually releasing DLC, which is a good thing for some as it keeps the game fresh, but in all honesty most of the DLC content is overpriced and should be priced lower or somethings should be give out for free. -Missions are not as fun as Skate 2 (The Danny Way missions from Skate 2 were a blast, but Skate 3 is lacking unique missions that are more than just a contest or a photo shoot) If you care about your rights of being able to sell what you own and hate DRM (or in this case an attempt to prevent people from selling and buying used copies), then you should boycott this game. That is probably too extreme for most people as this is a fun game besides the bad parts, but if you let EA take your rights now, then it will only be a matter of time before all games have limited number of users and other ridiculous restrictions.
Well this is a great game if you want more Skate and improves over Skate 2 in the following ways: -Skatepark Creator that lets you build stuff anywhere (seriously, you can build stuff in the middle of the street) -More online features -Better controls walking -Slightly improved graphics (less drops in frame rate too) -New easy and hard mode -Great new map -Good soundtrack -New missions (but they are repetitive of the last two games) -Continual updates Now for the ugly bad: -EA charges $10 for the "Skate Share Pack" that is included free with the game. The problem here is that if you buy a used copy of this game there is a good chance that this code has already been activated and you will need to spend $10 to be able to upload and download custom skate parks, photos, and replays. This is of course a continuation of the video games industries attempt to profit/stop the 2nd hand market for games as they do not make any money off those. Many people buy games with the knowledge that they can sell the game later if they don't like or they get bored with it and this restriction is an attempt to prevent you from being able to sell what is yours and what you paid for. Even PC games with outrageous DRM allow a limited number of installs, so a one time use activation code is ridiculous. -EA is continually releasing DLC, which is a good thing for some as it keeps the game fresh, but in all honesty most of the DLC content is overpriced and should be priced lower or somethings should be give out for free. -Missions are not as fun as Skate 2 (The Danny Way missions from Skate 2 were a blast, but Skate 3 is lacking unique missions that are more than just a contest or a photo shoot) If you care about your rights of being able to sell what you own and hate DRM (or in this case an attempt to prevent people from selling and buying used copies), then you should boycott this game. That is probably too extreme for most people as this is a fun game besides the bad parts, but if you let EA take your rights now, then it will only be a matter of time before all games have limited number of users and other ridiculous restrictions.
Purchased this game for our grandson. He was really excited to get the game, and we were excited because we purchased this game at a much better price than we could have at our local stores. The game is everything our grandson expected.
i new all the othere skate games 1 and 2 were good but nUMBER 3 TAKES it to a hole new level icould play for hours and never get board so much to do in this game