I’ve been playing Skate 3 for a couple of weeks and it’s one of those games that when you play it you want to skate, just like Assassin’s Creed it makes me want to climb buildings and poison people. Okay, maybe not the last thing, but you get the idea.

Skate 3 has improved since the last two skates, and since there was only a year between Skate 2 and Skate 3, I wasn’t expecting such a big change in gameplay.

The graphics are similar to Skate 2, which is not a bad thing as the graphics were already impressive. The BlackBox developers have added a difficulty option so that if you’re bad like me, you don’t have to be perfect in timing your tricks and flips. Skate 3 also allows you to play the campaign with your friends. I usually find that games that let you play the story with friends are more fun because when you play alone it can get boring too quickly.

The way to do tricks in Skate 3 is by moving the analog stick, I prefer this to the Tony Hawks method of spamming buttons and hopefully pulling off some sweet tricks. I think when you do the tricks and flips with the analog stick, the connection between what you’re doing and the actions of your skaters is realistic and gives the game a better feel. Although I like the analog approach. Sometimes it can be quite tricky to remember which direction to do what, I found myself spending most of my time zooming in on things like the floor and walls, as the video below shows…

One thing that has impressed me is the video editing capabilities, if you like to capture funny moments, glitches or have a knack for tricks, you will really enjoy this. It is very easy to capture the video and edit the camera angles, effects and size of the skating clips. Once you’ve edited the clips, they’ll be uploaded directly to the Skate website, where you can view/rate other people’s videos.

The only other things I feel I need to mention is that Skate 3 has almost 50 artists recorded on the soundtrack, here you will see artists like The Misfits, Steel Panther and Neil Diamond. As you can clearly see from those three artists, the soundtracks had a pretty wide variety of artists.

My opinion of this game is quite high compared to what it was before I played it. Before I played the game I expected it to be like Tony Hawks, I’m glad I was wrong because I really enjoyed this game, it brings a nice fresh feel to skating games. I would recommend this game to skaters, people who would like to skate and even people who don’t care about skating as it is a really fun game.