Sure, some tasks repeat each level, like racking up a huge score or collecting the scattered letters of the word 'SKATE', but individual goals spice things up. Fill this, and you can pull off stunts of eye-popping awesomeness!Įach stage also has its own set of goals. Showing off like this not only earns you points (vital for those judge's scorecards in the handful of international tournaments you'll be invited to) but add to your ever-growing special meter. Easily executed button combos launch your skater into any of a library of moves, be them spectacular air tricks you employ after launching yourself into the air, grinds that see you glide across rails or even stalls that see you balance precariously on lips.
You're urged to pick up your board and glide around nine intricately-designed stages without a single member of jackass or an overplayed story element in sight.īecause within this clean environment, things are breathtakingly simple. Shying away from moronic 'enhancements' like dodging rampaging bulls or guest-playing as dribbling retard's steering souped-up wheelchairs, THPS3 stuck to what a skateboarding series should: skateboarding. A game that might well be the best entry in the series but at the sacrifice of being the last decent title the franchise will ever see. There was a time when said franchise made it enjoyable to pick up your virtual board and surf some cement.īut you'd have to go back a long way - all the way back to Tony Hawks Pro Skater 3. There was once a time when Tony Hawks games were about skateboarding and not poorly-played out pop-culture references and MTV-inspired dribble when they weren't concerned in producing a blurry reflection of an over-embellished culture and concentrated on making the games playable.
A game that might well be the best entry in the series but at the sacrifice of being the last decent title the franchise will ever see." "But you'd have to go back a long way - all the way back to Tony Hawks Pro Skater 3.
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