I honestly feel like these are the perfect controls for a skateboarding game, and linking combos together for massive multipliers just feels right.
Somehow, in an era that hadn't really figured out how to make non-awkward controls, Tony Hawk managed to get things just right.īut perhaps that is nostalgia speaking-I mean, the game works really hard to trigger those nostalgia centers in our brains-but I don't think it's just that. I mean, try saying that about Resident Evil, Metal Gear Solid, or Final Fantasy VII. That's quite a statement to make about a PSOne-era title. What's most surprising about this is that they feel good. It took me maybe five minutes before my brain and hands re-adjusted to the control scheme and my muscle memory kicked in. While I didn't get to put in the hundreds of hours into THPS HD that I would have liked to, I can say with confidence that it plays exactly how I remember. Now, I have to admit here that I spent ungodly amounts of time playing the original THPS and THPS2 back in the day. And the blood splatter effects are deliciously juicy. It's certainly a lot of fun getting to see these old levels (that are probably etched into our brains by now) re-imagined for modern-day consoles. It's not the best-looking game on the market by any stretch of the imagination, but it at least makes itself worthy of the "HD" in its title.
Well, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD is here, and, for a downloadable title, it looks great.
Now, the modern age has given rise to the HD remake, and while most of the games to get makeovers tend to be gems from the PS2 generation, I think we can all agree that the THPS series is very worthy of a triumphant return.
The original gave us a control scheme that actually felt good (perhaps the first PSOne-era extreme sports title to accomplish this feat), but the real peak of the series was THPS 2, which added the manual that let us string together absurdly long combos and rack up scores that were so big that it hurt our eyes just to look at them. Now, you might roll your eyes at this sentiment if you've played any of the more recent games that bear his namesake, but in the PSOne era, there was no bigger name in skateboard games.
I say this because he has his name tied to perhaps the greatest extreme sports video game franchise on the planet, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater. And no, I don't mean because he invented a good portion of skateboarding as we know it (though I have to hand it to him, there's that). Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Tony Hawk is a living legend. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using Maxthon or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, you should know that these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse.The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests.