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Summary: Awesome game for skaters and non-skaters alike
Review: This game is an absolute must for skaters and non-skaters too. The graphics are awesome and realistic. Once you get how the controls work you constantly get better. When you're out past Canada it gets easy. Depending on your player the objectives are different. When you get bored playing the levels there are a lot of pre-made parks to choose from. If you get tired of those you can made tons of different ones on your own. If you already have THPS1 and 2 you just got to have this one too. The graphics are much better than any extreme sport game I've ever seen. The game is awesome but the controls are difficult since all the tricks are played on the number pad. If you press different directions you get different tricks. It runs on relative slow computers as well as the really fast ones. Along with famous skater like Tony Hawk, Reynolds, Muska, Steamer and others you can create your own skater. As you get through levels you collect stat points. The more stat points the better your skater. The levels are awesome. The graphics are about as realistic as you can get, and the pipes, pools and rails are easy to use. All in all this is an awesome game and though I don't have THPS4 yet I imagine it will be even better.
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Summary: THPS3
Review: This game is the best on my cd rack. Acually it never comes out of my computer. The third game in this series is another step up from 1 and 2. With added tricks and all new parks it makes it that much more interesting. You are not the only one in the park anymore. There are pedestrians walking aroud and asking you to show them your moves ( Which gets you extra points). They have also added Bam Margera to the lineup of pro skaters and he deserves it. The create a skater has gotten way better. You can find anything you want to put on them and make you or people you know. You can also change the original characters. Imagine having the power to make tony look like anything. Make boys or girls. Park editor is better too. Here is a description of all the parks:
Foundry- much like the warehouse level of thps1. Weave around the workers and don't fall into the lava. See how long you can stay on the catwalk without falling
Canada- Very big with a parking lot for street skating, a park, and lots of treehouses with walkways up high. The goals are fun in this one.
Rio- many lines going around the park for grinding, cool bowl/quarter pipe combo in the middle. see if you can find the secret pool (yes its empty for skating). This is a comp
Suburbia- Trailer parks nice houses and the haunted mansion. It may seem boring at first but wait till you find the secret area.
Airport- Pretty much a downhill park but some flat places. Lots of rails in this one. If you like vert get to the basement and there are lots of halfpipes. goals on this one are fun too
Skaters island- Youve probably heard of this in real life. It may look like its all vert but the fun boxes are a place for the streeters to dwell. The secret area in this is the best. Grind the pirate flag and youll see.Its a comp
Los Angeles- My favorite park in the game. probably the biggest too. The best goals and so many spots. The eathquake is a fun addition.
Tokyo- This is the most high tech park ive ever seen. Its really hard to place in this comp.There are no really secret areas there just hard to get to.
Secret level-ill let you find out what this is. It is really cool. it may seem like its all vert but thers street skating to be found. You wont be expecting thisWell thats all the levels ive found. Great game you should bye it.
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Summary: Pretty good for a computer game
Review: this is one of the best computer games i have played. unfortunatly that doesn't mean much as i tend to be pretty disgruntled with games despite the fact that i remain fairly obsessed with them. i played this one maybe 90% of the way through with one skater before becoming sort of fed up and losing interest. but for awhile there i was quite a fan. on the plus side alot of the game is nicely constructed. on each level there are all these goals to accomplish and lots of rewards for doing it- this is true of most games (though too few sports games), but most importantly for much of the game you feel like you're improving- and you really are! it looks neat and has a wonderful feel to it and i loved all the scoring and the detail of the scoring. i liked how it all broke down into little 3 minute or less runs, it sort of combined some of the enjoyable qualities of the traditional (or i guess old) arcade games with all the modern graphics and style. i really liked this. it felt unique too. i mean sometimes every computer game, even across genres, can feel all the same to me, but this felt like a new thing to me.
now the negatives: it doesnt really include anything more than the most rudimentary few instructions. it has a tutorial which was fairly incomplete and deadly confusing at times as it referred to playstation controls or something so it took me a long time to figure out (i am not great at this, but i only play on a computer and am not an idiot or anything). even very late in the game after many hours of play there were some things i was just not entirely clear on how they worked (lots of key combinations). i have read people suggesting you get a, um, i forget the word, one of those play pads or something, but this game is for a pc and does seem to work fine with the keyboard so why not just tell us how it works on that? also there's alot of stuff about different skaters and customizing that was pretty uninteresting to me (but that stuff usually is- at least this game wasn't half skating half "fantasy skate league owner" or something like all those lousy ea sports games out there), and even if it were interesting to me you couldn't really do much interesting- like you could choose alot of tattoos for your skater but they're all kind of the same idea of a tattoo. the boards too you win for your skater are pretty boring. finally, big complaint, towards the end it just gets too hard. for me theres challenging, which is fine, but it just gets to be like work eventually- you got 200,000 pts. now get 400,000. especially in the last half of the campaign i felt it didn't ever let me revel in the skills i had. i realize there are all these people getting millions of points and people are always writing about this or that being too easy, but i must admit i find most games a bit harder than i like. this is especially true in sports and strategy type games where easy is never all that easy and usually bunches up pretty close to the other difficulty levels. still, perhaps a difficulty setting would have been nice here or just, i don't know, in tony hawk i think the idea is you play through lots of skaters. why not have some be lots better than others (rather than just having variations of talents). oh, also, theres a kind of fog when things are far away which can make it sometimes challenging to locate things at a distance (which is important), and there was a stat point i could not jump up to no matter what i tried, and despite the exact descriptions of what should work not working (this was in tokyo, don't know if others ran into this).
thats about it. i recommend it certainly for 5 or 10 bucks.
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Summary: Tony 3 ROX
Review: THSP 3 is another great addition to the THPS line. With enhanced multiplayer modes like Graffiti, Trick Attack, King of the Hill, and Slap!. Career "checklist" changes for what trick style your skater has. A better create-a-skater to change gender, height, and change more about the pros. They took out Bob Burnqust(I think that's how you spell it) and added Bam Margera. You can do different combos like double and triple kickflips, heelflips and impossobles. You don't win money, but, like in #1, there are stat points and new decks. There are many more special tricks to choose from, also. The reason I gave it 4 stars is because the skate park editor is really a step backwards. There are not as many options as THPS 2. Regardless, this is a great game!
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Summary: FINALLY!!!!
Review: YEAH!!! Finally! It's here! I've been waiting since last July, when I heard it would come out Spring 2002. (I didn't get it yet, but it's Wednesday, March 26, and I'm getting it tomorrow)
I don't feel that PC gamers get enough respect and credit. There are more PC gamers than console gamers, but we are still shunned by others. And games come out like....a year later than console games. They should all come out at least within the same month!!! Anyway, I'm going to buy an XBox in the summer, so I shouldn't worry. Anyway.....
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 is the latest installment of a predicted 10+ series of top-notch skateboarding. It was a first for boarders, and it has convinced people, including myself, to start skateboarding. In a couple of years, it will be the biggest (i can assure you) gaming franchise.
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 for PC has a lot more cool features. Because of computer capabilities, there is a GIANT Park Editor, and many more options and modes for multiplayer. Also, it has the BEST graphics EVER for ANY game ever made!!! About 1400 by 1200 pixels, and 30 screens per second, or something like that.
If you want any more information about new advances for Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 for PC, or just THPS in general, go to Planet Tony Hawk. It is an excellent site, with lots of information and links to other sites.
I rate Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 a 11 out of 10, and I will make another rating after I get it! See ya....and WHAZUP!!!
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