It’s nearly insulting how simply this skating-game remake pushes my millennial nostalgia buttons. The second that Ace of Spades comes on over a montage of skaters on the title display screen, I’m forcefully yanked again to the early 00s, once I spent untold hours taking part in one Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater recreation or one other within the gross bedrooms of my teen-boy mates. Greater than 20 years later, I can nearly odor the acrid lingering odour of Lynx physique spray.
In 2020, the primary couple of Tony Hawk’s video games had been polished up and re-released as the primary wave of Y2K nostalgia hit. The 2 video games had been packaged up as one, with constant controls and a brand new look that preserved the grungy really feel of the originals, and the identical is true for 3+4: ranges, skaters and parks from each 2001’s THPS3 and 2002’s THPS4 rock up right here alongside newer stars of the game (together with Riley Hawk, son of the eponymous skating celeb – I discovered this oddly touching).
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