This is about exactly what I expected it to be, for better or worse. It's definitely competent, and if you've never played a Tony Hawk game, this is a fine entry to play. But I do think it's kind of redundant, and a missed opportunity, considering these games, and the majority of their stages, have been revisited time and time again across a million platforms. Most notably, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2X for the original Xbox is a game that exists, and that already featured all of the stages from Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 and 2 in it, plus some additional bonus stages. It had every music track from THPS2, and while it lacked the music from THPS, it did have the custom soundtrack feature, as afforded by original Xbox hardware, so you could just put your own music into the game if you so chose. Hard to go wrong there.

So... yeah. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 is not bad, and I guess it's nice to have an okay Tony Hawk release after several reportedly terrible entries from Robomodo, but this feels a bit underwhelming to me, as a series veteran.

Reviewed on Dec 24, 2023


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