At first I tried to use a small kicker ramp to make up the eight-or-so feet I'd need to reach its top rail, but Skate 3 remains fairly faithful to the laws of physics, and I'd bleed so much speed on the ramp that the jump was impossible. In this way I became obsessed with trying to grind on a soccer goal. I became obsessed with trying to grind on a soccer goal When those lines are broken, Skate 3 lets you connect them up, enabling players to hop off their board and yank ramps, rails, and other obstacles into place. Signs and benches often look like signs and benches, but catch them in the right light, and you'll see them from their golden angles, revealing new ways to chain tricks together. Port Carverton is best explored at cruising speed, a leisurely skate-pace of kick, push, kick, push that reveals its best lines. You’re never far from a grindable rail or a hoppable gap.
It starts with the name - carve down its long, winding streets - and continues with its factories, facilities, and forecourts conveniently laid out like well-designed skateparks. Skate 3 takes place in a city built for skateboarders.
#Black box skate 3 xbox one series
The series as a whole, and Skate 3 in particular, was renowned for its more natural take on the sport, with a control scheme that really made it feel like you were on a board. First released in 2010 on the Xbox 360 and PS3, Skate 3 was developed by EA’s now defunct Black Box studio. It's also the same month that Titanfall 2, Dishonored 2, and Battlefield 1 made plays to dominate my time, but it was Skate 3's board-friendly world of Port Carverton that I spent longest in. That meant that in the same month that the president-elect of the United States appointed a white supremacist to one of the highest positions in his administration, the country of my birth slashed its economic projections for the future, and a tsunami threatened the country I now call home, I was able to forget the world by spending multiple hours trying to land a tailslide on a small bench.
But there's been a solitary light in the darkness of November: Microsoft finally saw fit to make superlative skateboarding game Skate 3 playable on its Xbox One console. Between elections and earthquakes, the end of 2016 has started to feel a bit like the end of the world.