This was laughingly bad. The only saving grace was that the parkouring was half decent, but with one of the most confusing level designs of all time it was difficult to ever truly get into. Characters move at 5 FPS when you're 20 feet away from them, set pieces are empty, voice acting is horrendous, and enemy AI either lets you creep up on them or will one-hit you as soon as you enter a room.

Speaking of the voice acting, I couldn't find any confirmation of this but I swear they had one of the voice actor's pitch shift from normal to low from one line to another towards the middle part of the game. It was so jarring to me that I was starting to wonder if they had two different actors voice the same character.

Skate 1 - best soundtrack & most optimal progression system
Skate 2 - best map
Skate 3 - most fluid gameplay

If I had to only choose one it'd be the second but I love them all equally.