The game is simple enough that anyone can have fun on their first go (because even bailing spectacularly down the school steps is fun), yet has sufficient depth to keep you playing for weeks. Then there’s the multitude of gaps to jump, special tricks to learn and stats to upgrade. But if this does well, perhaps we’ll get a remaster of THPS3 too. (No, stop that-don’t say ‘let’s go’-that was THPS3. It’s weird that ‘finding the secret tape’ doesn’t actually unlock any of the secret tapes, but hey ho. These come up on the right hand side whenever you go back to the main menu, and beating them unlocks new apparel, decks and videos to watch. It’s still fast, sure, but it should arguably be instantaneous.įor those who want to squeeze every last drop from the package, there are loads of challenges to tick off. If any criticism could be levelled at this aspect of the game, it would be that the slight delay of the transition screen should really have been removed, as the faster you can restart, the less break there is in the fun.
Even so, once you've done the treasure hunt style challenges like wall-ride 5 fire alarms or collect the letters S-K-A-T-E, you’ll find you rarely play the entire 2 minutes, due to instinctively reaching for the pause/restart sequence of button presses to try for a better run. If you’re good, you can theoretically keep skating for another minute or more after the buzzer. This structure means you can always enjoy a quick session, but, cleverly, the game keeps running even after the clock expires so long as you’re performing a trick or combo. The game mostly plays out in timed, two-minute chunks. Vicarious Visions has wisely stopped short of introducing the dismount and climbing features from Tony Hawk’s Underground. There’s an optional tutorial at the start of the game, and it’s worth playing even if you’re a Tony Hawk’s veteran, just so you’re aware of the systems used here that are borrowed from later games. Naturally, the goals have been elevated to fit, but this control uniformity does remove the little variety between the two games, so they don’t really feel that different any more. These make for a much more enjoyable and flowing game, with far higher scoring potential. The main change is the introduction of THPS2’s manual and THPS3’s revert flatland tricks into the package-the latter at the request of Tony Hawk himself. (Image credit: Activision) Revert to save
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