Strong candidate for most slappable video game villain of all time. Better than all the Hawk games before it - even in spite of having one of the weakest soundtracks in the series and generally feeling rough around the edges in a lot of spots (most notably its horrid in-game rendered 'cutscenes') - simply because of how damn smoothly it plays. Like seriously, how many other games from 2003 can you say have controls this tight? The driving sections are so hilariously scuffed that they're impossible not to love at least a little bit, you just don't see bat-for-the-fences experimentalism like that in games much anymore. And I know it's a divisive move, but imo the addition of walking is the best game-changer of the franchise since the manual and revert. All of the levels are winners, plus you can play as Gene Simmons and Iron Man. The three game stretch of this, THUG2, and THAW was no doubt peak of the series.