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Some pretty big sacrifices have been made. Of course, there’s the $15 price point is bittersweet too.

Tony hawk pro skater hd bails series#

These alone add enough value to the series to warrant the game’s $15 price tag for Birdman fans. This time around, 100%-ing the campaign unlocks Projectives, a series of ludicrously difficult objectives that will leave you mashing the restart button and pulling out your hair but never putting the controller down. This will help perfectionists reach 100% faster than ever before, but as is always the case with Tony Hawk games, the “end” just unlocks more. Levels feel just a little different (not better or worse, just scaled slightly differently), only about half of the songs from the original two titles return (don’t worry: Goldfinger’s “Superman” is still in the mix), and this time around there’s a map that shows you where every single collectible and objective is. However, Pro Skater HD isn’t a 1:1 remake of its predecessors. But its transition to the seventh generation of consoles is a successful one, with small touches like the way drawstrings move on hoodies showing the careful polish and love grafted into this update. After all, when we jammed this on our PS1’s and N64’s the graphics seemed breathtaking. THPSHD looks great too, but surprisingly, you’ll quickly forget that this isn’t how it always looked. As much as we love the later additions (like the revert, which is due in a future DLC pack), we were perfectly content with the usual assortment of flip tricks, grabs, grinds, and manuals.

Tony hawk pro skater hd bails manual#

That’s due in part to the inclusion Pro Skater 2’s manual move to all the Tony Hawk 1 levels, which allows for extremely long combos. But our skepticism proved unwarranted – Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater still feels as buttery smooth as it did in 1999. Gameplay mechanics over a decade old often feel, well, old. The 2012 remake contains seven levels from Tony Hawk 1 and 2 in something of a best-of compilation, but Tony Hawk 1 came out 13 years ago and the gameplay has been left almost completely untouched. For that reason, it’s best to approach Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD cautiously. While it can fill you with a nice little fuzzy feeling, too much can lead to fruitless reminiscing.

Much like Bagel Bites, Mountain Dew, beanbag chairs, and the Y2K bug, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater is practically synonymous with late-90’s nostalgia.įunny thing about nostalgia, though: it’s a bittersweet fruit.