Maintaining balance on a long string grind, finding a secret tape through a carefully timed series of jumps and linking high combos to achieve progressively steeper scores are the real challenges here. Others require more masterful skill and precision.
Some goals are relatively simple, such as finding five items or the letters that spell SKATE. Levels are mostly accomplishing a list of goals in just two minutes. By choosing either a real-life or custom skater, you start off with only basic stats and accumulate stat points through the levels. Whereas future releases like Tony Hawk’s Underground added novelty stories with rags to riches scenarios or a World Tour modelled on Bam Margera’s Viva la Bam! TV series, the career mode here is far more down to earth. After that you can manual to another ramp and rack up the multiplier even more.Įverything here presents what Tony Hawk’s skating games are about, no matter which one you started with. Before landing a vert trick, pressing R2 will allow the combo-chain to continue. The revert is the only major addition from the PS2 version of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3.
Grabs and flips have to be pulled off the quarter pipes, balance needs maintaining from the numerous grind tricks, amongst interconnecting the combos off different ramps with manuals. Whereas player had it easy racking up points by grabbing the edge of a ramp and switching positions on later versions, this is not the case here. The game-play is tougher and more down-to-earth. The controls are a pain to negotiate with when trying to turn the skater around, when in subsequent games the skater navigate around off their board (leading to farfetched level goals), and there are far less tricks on offer.īut despite it supposed sparseness it doesn’t take long for this bygone PSone title to grow on you again. There’s only a handful of accompanying songs. The draw-in distance is horrible half the level draws itself in front of your eyes and trying to locate the good half-pipes is a mere memory game.
It isn’t hard to notice how the franchise has since moved on. It’s appeared on every format made since ollie-ing into the PlayStation park in 1999, and when each game is designed to be built better than the last, playing this eight-year old title is like skating backwards into a time machine. Tony Hawk’s is probably one of the most ubiquitous franchises of the last decade. "Tony Hawk’s is probably one of the most ubiquitous franchises of the last decade. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 (PlayStation) review
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