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.