The biggest change to the gameplay is using the new Trick Stick, AKA the right analog stick. In previous versions of the game, you hit a trick button to pull off a move, and that was that. In V3, there is a different move for every 45-degree angle of the stick, making 8 moves for eight directions. Hit the stick in one of the directions while holding down one of the three modifiers (L1, R1, etc.), and you have a whole new set of moves, giving you over 30 behind the back, between the legs, off the head-type moves at your fingertips. And each move is finally assigned a specific direction, so you know that when you hit L1 while flicking right on the Trick Stick, you're going to humiliate your opponent with a move where you flip the ball under your kicked-up leg followed by a quick spin that knocks your opponent on his back called "Through the Basement". The more tricks you pull in a row, the higher the combo and more Gamebreaker points you'll collect. There is even a bar at the top of the screen that shows you what moves you've pulled off in your combo, displaying the arrow moves almost like a Tekken tutorial. It's a great way to not only string moves together, but to learn exactly what you've pressed if you're more into button mashing than X's and O's.
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