Tony Rides Once Again (Tony Hawks Pro Skater 3 (GC))

Member Name: Didgy_Bizkit

Product:	Tony Hawks Pro Skater 3 (GC)
Date:	22/03/02 (49 review reads)
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Advantages: Easy To Learn, Hard To Master, The Soundtrack, The Trick's

Disadvantages: The Level Creater

WOW!!! Probably the only word that is fit enough to describe such a great game. I have loved extreme sports since I first picked up a punk rock album at the age of about 9. I previously owned a PS1 on which I had two instalments of the Tony Hawk Series. I played the first and was immediatley hooked for about 2 months. I would come home from school and play for hours endlessly trying to get better and better trick combinations.

This continued until I got wind of a second title being released. Great. It came. More Levels, More Players and a new create your own skater option. Again my playstation pad was in tators on my floor every night as I progressed through the game.

One of the first games to be released on the PS2 was TH3. I knew that this was my calling to go out and buy a PS2 just as to play that game. So I did. I have to say the boys at neversoft have done themselves proud. Just when you thought an improvement on the second title was impossible they produce TH3.

Again they insert more levels, more challenges, more skaters, more secret skaters, and they even managed to improve the create a skater feature. I began to play almost as soon as I got in from shopping and I was immediatley hooked. The game had so much depth and originality to it (unlike most sequels) that I found it hard to put the controller down.

The new level creater lets the down however. The amount of extra levels made by the producer is phenominal but you are unable to create the same as the pallet to work on is so small, and with so many features the ratio is all wrong.

The soundtrack to the game is superb. With songs by bands such as Alien Ant Farm you get the sense of a real punkish sport, then you mix in older songs such as Ace of Spades by Motorhead and Redmans hit Lets Get Dirty you get the occasional hardcore/rap style that really gets everyone jumping.

TH3 is probably the best game out at the moment for the PS2. For a game that proc
edes two fine titles, I can't personally see how the Neversoft boys have managed to come up with such a deep and original game. Just one thing to take into consideration when you begin playing, even if you own the previous two titles, play the tutorial. IT HELPS!!!!!!

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