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#TONY HAWK PRO SKATER 5 PS4 REVIEW SERIES#
However, I still remember when the Tony Hawk games were great, and it's been an amusing sideshow of cartoonish absurdity watching the series stumble over its own feet.
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Though once an example of the finest that arcadey sports titles had to offer, it overstayed its welcome and piled on bad idea after bad idea until it got to the infamous Ride / Shred sub-series, which was almost entirely unrecognizable compared to the source. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater holds a special place in gaming's cultural landscape. WTF Lil' Wayne is a playable skater, but doesn't appear on the soundtrack. LOW Framerate and screen-tearing issues abound. They’re now joined by new blood reflective of the most notable skaters of the moment, including Nyjah Huston, Riley Hawk, and Leo Baker – it’s the most diverse and inclusive skater line-up in the series so far, while the create-a-skater mode offers plenty of scope to craft your own identity.HIGH Solid level design and one excellent unlockable skater! The soundtrack isn’t the only place where Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 expertly balances old and new – the roster of skaters features all the familiar favourites, including Steve Caballero, Kareem Campbell, Elissa Steamer and Bucky Lasek, whose character models are not only much more detailed than their basic PS1 counterparts, but capture how all skaters look today, which is a nice touch. The OG tunes are joined by a significant number of new songs – highlights including Skepta’s ‘Shutdown’ and DZ Deathrays’ ‘IN-TO-IT’ – which feel of a piece with the raucous energy of the original tracklist. It looks and feels exactly how you remember the original games – while in reality upgrading them in every way.įor the most part, though, the soundtrack is a belter – always a huge part of the identity of the original games, the majority of the songs from Pro Skater and Pro Skater 2 have made it through, from Goldfinger’s iconic ‘Superman’, to Papa Roach’s thrashy ‘Blood Brothers’, to that version of ‘Bring The Noise’ by Anthrax and Public Enemy. Bails, formerly bloody affairs that left red splatters across the concrete, have been toned down and replaced with a glitching effect, as if you’re an avatar in an Assassin’s Creed-esque simulation, while some of the songs have been switched for radio edits (not a big deal, but you’ll miss swearing along to the chorus of Rage Against The Machine’s ‘Guerrilla Radio’). Mechanics from the later Pro Skater games, including reverts and transfers (near-essential for linking tricks into high-scoring combos), have been implemented – a choice that most players will welcome, though purists have the option to turn them off – and the original collectible cash icons have been streamlined into simple stat points that you can use to boost your key skating abilities. There have been a few subtle tweaks to the gameplay. Sane Trilogy remake – have emulated the handling and trick-timing perfectly, meaning that original (read: old) fans can sit back and let the muscle memory kick in. Developers Vicarious Visions – who were also behind 2017’s Crash Bandicoot N.
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#TONY HAWK PRO SKATER 5 PS4 REVIEW PS3#
To be clear, it’s not the first time the classic early Pro Skater titles have resurfaced – but where 2012’s digital-only Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD on PS3 and Xbox 360 featured erratic physics and a lack of attention to detail, with an incomplete roster of levels from the first two games, the new Pro Skater 1+2 gets the most important thing right: it feels exactly like the original games.