This was a considerable upgrade from skate 2 game, but still left me a little unamused. Skate 2 was open world game, and skate 3 is a open world game but divided in 3 sections smaller than skate 2 (but combined they are larger). The problem with this is that if I just want to go from one place to another I have to go to the map and teleport myself there. This was such a turn off for me. Storyline-wise I enjoyed more Skate 2. Skate 3 story was just so meh. Not that skate 2 is mindblowing, it's also meh but it was better than skate 3. Idk. Gameplay-wise Skate 3 is much better. That's the positive point in skate 3 I guess.
By all rights, this game should not have been as fun as it was. The stories after Skate 1 get increasingly dumb, but who plays a skateboarding game for its believability anyway? The skateboard mechanics are the sole reason to stay, and I think Skate 3 finally perfected them. Yeah, walking around off your board feels clunky, especially going back to the game now, but for its time this was pretty impressive stuff.