Tony hawk pro skater 5 amazon12/1/2022 ![]() ![]() When it comes to creating a skater, you don’t even get to choose a body type or customize the face you just pick a face from a handful of presets. So, it feels great and looks great what could be wrong with it? Well, I would have liked to see a bit more content, and the creation options are lackluster. You’ll want to spend more time in these places, and the remaster has your back there, too: there are tons of new challenges outside of the classic missions for each level. Pro Skater 1+2 is a beautiful game through and through. The out-of-place wooden quarter pipes in Roswell are now sleek metal, the classic Warehouse actually looks like an abandoned warehouse, and so on. ![]() The layouts haven’t changed, which I know is important for purests, but some of the stages still feel almost new. Each park has a brand new coat of paint on it, massively updating the relatively generic original environments into places with real personality and charm. Still, everything else is here, which fixes one of the biggest issues with Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD. Speaking of the stages, all of them make a return from Pro Skater 1 and Pro Skater 2, though sadly, the extra levels from Pro Skater 2X aren’t included. That was a great choice there are options to make everyone happy. And if it really bothers you, or if you want the extra challenge, you can toggle the mechanics between this default mode, THPS1 mode (including the lack of manuals), or THPS2 mode. ![]() I also appreciate the inclusion of most of the maneuvers that had been added in later games, like reverts and double tap tricks while they may upset purests, they really do open up a ton of possibilities for new ways to explore the stages and keep your combos going. It’s a refresh that the series needed, but it isn’t so big a change that it will confuse long time players. Dropping the floaty physics and increasing the speed makes it feel like that much more of an accomplishment when you nail a sick combo, and helps make different moves feel different. Going back, I think you would be surprised how slow the original titles were. This is a faster, weightier version of the Pro Skater gameplay you know and love. The controls and gameplay still feel familiar, but everything has been modernized. While I see this game being called a “remaster” officially, it feels more like a remake to me. I could end the review right there, but I have a feeling some people might need a bit more convincing. I’ve been wanting to see some representation of the series on modern consoles for a long time, and now that the completely remastered Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 is here, I can’t put it down. ![]() I always have, from the moment I first played the demo on my Dreamcast (yes, the first two games did come out on Dreamcast.) And while I stopped playing new installments after American Wasteland, I never stopped going back to the old ones. ![]()
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